Sangeeta Ahluwalia, PhD
@sahluwalia.bsky.social
Health policy researcher | Public health professor. Cal Bear & UCLA Bruin. #MCU.
🍰 for breakfast.
🍰 for breakfast.
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One of the many experiences I encountered in writing my forthcoming book was that as soon as patients began responding to higher-level mental health care, insurers said it wasn’t medically necessary so denied it. (I discuss this in Ch. 8.) Pre-order Coverage Denied: www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One of the many experiences I encountered in writing my forthcoming book was that as soon as patients began responding to higher-level mental health care, insurers said it wasn’t medically necessary so denied it. (I discuss this in Ch. 8.) Pre-order Coverage Denied: www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
As someone owned by a black cat this warms my heart.
March 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As someone owned by a black cat this warms my heart.
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Everybody should take a break and go watch Black Panther for some inspiration. The movie was released 7 years ago today.
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman.
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman.
a man in a black suit is standing in front of a group of people in red suits .
Alt: a man in a black suit is standing in front of a group of people in red suits .
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February 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Everybody should take a break and go watch Black Panther for some inspiration. The movie was released 7 years ago today.
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman.
R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman.
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February 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This gives me a modicum of hope for the future, after a dark few years. I mean days.
NEW: David Hogg has won the vice chair DNC election.
February 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This gives me a modicum of hope for the future, after a dark few years. I mean days.
This was very helpful and (sadly) particularly salient right now it seems.
Realizing I probably haven’t posted this on blue sky at all before… It’s a really useful primer for parents on how to talk to & protect their kids during complex and stressful times www.healthychildren.org/English/fami...
How to Talk With Kids About Tragedies & Other Traumatic News Events
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) encourages parents, teachers, child care providers, and others who work closely with children to filter information about the crisis and present it in a way th...
www.healthychildren.org
February 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
This was very helpful and (sadly) particularly salient right now it seems.
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I’m not joking when I say to check on your friends in research today.
January 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m not joking when I say to check on your friends in research today.
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I wrote this based on my JHPPL article on inequitable administrative burdens of appealing coverage denials, incorporating a new interview I did with a doc who reviews claims for a major insurer and who said, "We’re told denying things is OK because people can appeal" www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/h...
‘Rationing by inconvenience’: Health insurers count on customers not appealing denials
Call it “rationing by inconvenience”: Health insurers save money when customers are too exhausted to bother appealing denials.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I wrote this based on my JHPPL article on inequitable administrative burdens of appealing coverage denials, incorporating a new interview I did with a doc who reviews claims for a major insurer and who said, "We’re told denying things is OK because people can appeal" www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/h...
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Since I have some new followers who are professors or writers or both, I'm sharing this humor piece of mine from 2021. #academicsky #teaching #college
www.pointsincase.com/articles/fir...
www.pointsincase.com/articles/fir...
First Lines of Classic Novels About Professors
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Class had started, but half the students wouldn’t show up until 13:10.
www.pointsincase.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Since I have some new followers who are professors or writers or both, I'm sharing this humor piece of mine from 2021. #academicsky #teaching #college
www.pointsincase.com/articles/fir...
www.pointsincase.com/articles/fir...
Reading this from India, I have a whole new appreciation for President Carter’s public health work especially focused on eradicating waterborne disease.
#JimmyCarter 's post presidency was admirable in so many ways, but especially in relation to the work he did to rid the world of some awful diseases. www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h...
How Jimmy Carter's global health efforts elevated 'the art of the possible'
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.
www.statnews.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Reading this from India, I have a whole new appreciation for President Carter’s public health work especially focused on eradicating waterborne disease.
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Remembering President Jimmy Carter with the 2 @JAMA_current editorials he authored-
Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (9/13/1985)
Physicians and Human Rights (5/23/1986)
Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (9/13/1985)
Physicians and Human Rights (5/23/1986)
December 30, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Remembering President Jimmy Carter with the 2 @JAMA_current editorials he authored-
Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (9/13/1985)
Physicians and Human Rights (5/23/1986)
Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (9/13/1985)
Physicians and Human Rights (5/23/1986)
Don’t mess with a cat. Ever.
December 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Don’t mess with a cat. Ever.
I was the last one standing in my house but even heroes have a fall I guess.
December 7, 2024 at 1:28 AM
I was the last one standing in my house but even heroes have a fall I guess.
Post-holiday me is regretting the nonchalance with which pre-holiday me agreed to a 6 am meeting.
a pug dog is laying on a rug with its eyes closed and the caption uugghhhh
ALT: a pug dog is laying on a rug with its eyes closed and the caption uugghhhh
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December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Post-holiday me is regretting the nonchalance with which pre-holiday me agreed to a 6 am meeting.
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I wrote a piece summarizing a few of the things Trump's pick to lead the NIH, Dr. Bhattacharya, got catastrophically wrong — especially in 2020.
I’ve criticized public authorities, including for nonsensical and excessive measures (closing parks and beaches?).
But let’s not rewrite history either.
I’ve criticized public authorities, including for nonsensical and excessive measures (closing parks and beaches?).
But let’s not rewrite history either.
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
I wrote a piece summarizing a few of the things Trump's pick to lead the NIH, Dr. Bhattacharya, got catastrophically wrong — especially in 2020.
I’ve criticized public authorities, including for nonsensical and excessive measures (closing parks and beaches?).
But let’s not rewrite history either.
I’ve criticized public authorities, including for nonsensical and excessive measures (closing parks and beaches?).
But let’s not rewrite history either.
We should all snooze this hard.
November 26, 2024 at 6:20 AM
We should all snooze this hard.
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Hi new followers! It’s great to rebuild the vibrant #healthpolicy online community of the past. I study health politics, media and public opinion, and will also be the Editor of JHPPL starting in the summer of 2025. I am excited to follow you and elevate research & evidence. 1/3
November 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Hi new followers! It’s great to rebuild the vibrant #healthpolicy online community of the past. I study health politics, media and public opinion, and will also be the Editor of JHPPL starting in the summer of 2025. I am excited to follow you and elevate research & evidence. 1/3
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Since I've unexpectedly picked up a ton of followers--allow me to introduce you to this program of compassion, kindness, and love, led by the extraordinary @thanhneville.bsky.social at UCLA Health. Follow, donate, and cheer them on as the light in our current sea of darkness, hate, and indifference.
November 23, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Since I've unexpectedly picked up a ton of followers--allow me to introduce you to this program of compassion, kindness, and love, led by the extraordinary @thanhneville.bsky.social at UCLA Health. Follow, donate, and cheer them on as the light in our current sea of darkness, hate, and indifference.
The language of crisis is 💯 political. But it is easy and flashy.
Public health is not political.
But it requires an ability to parse information, accept uncertainty, and fundamentally, to care about each other.
Things that apparently we are tired of.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Public health is not political.
But it requires an ability to parse information, accept uncertainty, and fundamentally, to care about each other.
Things that apparently we are tired of.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘We Tire Very Quickly of Being Told That Everything Is on Fire’
Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:20 PM
The language of crisis is 💯 political. But it is easy and flashy.
Public health is not political.
But it requires an ability to parse information, accept uncertainty, and fundamentally, to care about each other.
Things that apparently we are tired of.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Public health is not political.
But it requires an ability to parse information, accept uncertainty, and fundamentally, to care about each other.
Things that apparently we are tired of.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
“Do we really have to do today?”
November 21, 2024 at 1:31 PM
“Do we really have to do today?”
Still one of the best movies out there. Yes, it’s a comic. And Chadwick Boseman took it beyond the pages and into our current-day world. #mcu #marvel #blackpanther
November 18, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Still one of the best movies out there. Yes, it’s a comic. And Chadwick Boseman took it beyond the pages and into our current-day world. #mcu #marvel #blackpanther
Always have cake for breakfast. It is important for soul health.
Channeling my inner @shematologist.bsky.social by having cake for breakfast.
November 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Always have cake for breakfast. It is important for soul health.