Ami E. Sedani, PhD, MPH
@amiesedani.bsky.social
Assistant professor | Cancer epidemiologist
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📍Dallas, Texas
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📍Dallas, Texas
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June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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As you wander through Back Bay, come answer our prompt of the day before you get food and drink!
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
As you wander through Back Bay, come answer our prompt of the day before you get food and drink!
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Hugely enjoyed listening to John Jackson reflect on Vanderweele and @whitneyepi.bsky.social's fabulous paper on the causal interpretation of race in regression models. One of my very favourite papers!
#SER2025
#SER2025
June 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hugely enjoyed listening to John Jackson reflect on Vanderweele and @whitneyepi.bsky.social's fabulous paper on the causal interpretation of race in regression models. One of my very favourite papers!
#SER2025
#SER2025
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"I hope that you know that I and a big majority of the American public trust you, believe in you, and know that your work is important"
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social offers words of encouragement to epidemiologists at #SER2025
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social offers words of encouragement to epidemiologists at #SER2025
June 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"I hope that you know that I and a big majority of the American public trust you, believe in you, and know that your work is important"
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social offers words of encouragement to epidemiologists at #SER2025
@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social offers words of encouragement to epidemiologists at #SER2025
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Scientific societies should be leading the charge when it comes to advocating for science funding, federal scientific employees, and academic freedom in this moment.
I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.
I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.
June 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Scientific societies should be leading the charge when it comes to advocating for science funding, federal scientific employees, and academic freedom in this moment.
I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.
I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.
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"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.
Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
www.medpagetoday.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.
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Urine drug screens are some of the most inaccurate tests in medicine, that even healthcare professionals frequently misinterpret or just don’t understand.
Yet we let nonmedical/nonscientific people in politics and law enforcement use them to punish people and even take children from their mothers.
Yet we let nonmedical/nonscientific people in politics and law enforcement use them to punish people and even take children from their mothers.
End pregnancy criminalization! Hospitals reported women for positive drug tests after giving them drugs for childbirth: medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #lawsky www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Urine drug screens are some of the most inaccurate tests in medicine, that even healthcare professionals frequently misinterpret or just don’t understand.
Yet we let nonmedical/nonscientific people in politics and law enforcement use them to punish people and even take children from their mothers.
Yet we let nonmedical/nonscientific people in politics and law enforcement use them to punish people and even take children from their mothers.
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This is insane. $40 billion cut to HHS. 40% of NIH budget will be gone, 27 institutes will shrink down to 8. 44% of CDC budget will disappear, all work on chronic diseases will cease. Head Start will be eliminated.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
wapo.st
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is insane. $40 billion cut to HHS. 40% of NIH budget will be gone, 27 institutes will shrink down to 8. 44% of CDC budget will disappear, all work on chronic diseases will cease. Head Start will be eliminated.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
SO PEOPLE WILL DIE because we want to give billionaires their tax cuts.
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Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.
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If you're happy Harvard stood up for academic freedom today: write your alma mater(s) if they haven't done the same and ask them to do the same. Make this your one action you take today. And share that you did it below!
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're happy Harvard stood up for academic freedom today: write your alma mater(s) if they haven't done the same and ask them to do the same. Make this your one action you take today. And share that you did it below!
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UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations
More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.
www.latimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
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In people with diabetes, GLP-1 and SGLT2i drugs were associated with less Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
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April 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In people with diabetes, GLP-1 and SGLT2i drugs were associated with less Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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RFK Jr is doing unto America's children what he already did to Samoa's.
83 died in the Samoan measles outbreak, while RFK jr and his influencer friends railed against MMR vaccination.
RFK Jr has Samoan - and American - blood on his hands.
83 died in the Samoan measles outbreak, while RFK jr and his influencer friends railed against MMR vaccination.
RFK Jr has Samoan - and American - blood on his hands.
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RFK Jr. should apologize to parents for his inaction during this measles epidemic.
RFK Jr. should apologize to parents for his inaction during this measles epidemic.
Another Child Dies from Measles
RFK Jr. plans to attend the funeral. He should apologize to the parents for his actions during a measles epidemic that likely involves thousands of children.
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
RFK Jr is doing unto America's children what he already did to Samoa's.
83 died in the Samoan measles outbreak, while RFK jr and his influencer friends railed against MMR vaccination.
RFK Jr has Samoan - and American - blood on his hands.
83 died in the Samoan measles outbreak, while RFK jr and his influencer friends railed against MMR vaccination.
RFK Jr has Samoan - and American - blood on his hands.
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Police in Rhode Island are saying someone died from fentanyl-laced cannabis based on preliminary drug testing done by the police, and I just want people to remember law enforcement is not qualified to perform drug testing or determine cause of death. It helps nobody to create unfounded drug panics.
April 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Police in Rhode Island are saying someone died from fentanyl-laced cannabis based on preliminary drug testing done by the police, and I just want people to remember law enforcement is not qualified to perform drug testing or determine cause of death. It helps nobody to create unfounded drug panics.
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We've gone from NOFO to no FO.
April 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We've gone from NOFO to no FO.
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I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts
1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves
2- state & local health depts will be harmed
1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves
2- state & local health depts will be harmed
April 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts
1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves
2- state & local health depts will be harmed
1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves
2- state & local health depts will be harmed
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Never miss an opportunity to talk about interaction effects :)
While Vitamin A can lower the risk of severe measles outcomes in Vitamin A-deficient children, it has little effect on #measles severity in children from high-income countries. #publichealth #episky
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While Vitamin A can lower the risk of severe measles outcomes in Vitamin A-deficient children, it has little effect on #measles severity in children from high-income countries. #publichealth #episky
open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?
Vitamin A won’t save you from measles (but it might ruin your liver)
File under: Still not taking health advice from a lawyer
open.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Never miss an opportunity to talk about interaction effects :)
While Vitamin A can lower the risk of severe measles outcomes in Vitamin A-deficient children, it has little effect on #measles severity in children from high-income countries. #publichealth #episky
open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?
While Vitamin A can lower the risk of severe measles outcomes in Vitamin A-deficient children, it has little effect on #measles severity in children from high-income countries. #publichealth #episky
open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?
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Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.
April 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Almost half of the country’s health insurance now rests in the hands of a man who once sold miracle pills — with zero proof they worked — on daytime TV.
I’m sorry BlueSky. I know we hate Zuck but the Penguin memes over on 🧵 s are 🔥.
April 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’m sorry BlueSky. I know we hate Zuck but the Penguin memes over on 🧵 s are 🔥.
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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Wait a second, I thought ending chronic disease & promoting health was the MAHA mission. How does firing people with almost 3 decades of experience from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion accomplish that?
April 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Wait a second, I thought ending chronic disease & promoting health was the MAHA mission. How does firing people with almost 3 decades of experience from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion accomplish that?
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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These are the divisions eliminated in CDC. Apparently the man who claims he’s going to address chronic conditions does not want smoking or miner’s health addressed, or lead poisoning, to name just a few.
Because he’s not really trying to address chronic illness. He just wants to remove vaccines.
Because he’s not really trying to address chronic illness. He just wants to remove vaccines.
April 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
These are the divisions eliminated in CDC. Apparently the man who claims he’s going to address chronic conditions does not want smoking or miner’s health addressed, or lead poisoning, to name just a few.
Because he’s not really trying to address chronic illness. He just wants to remove vaccines.
Because he’s not really trying to address chronic illness. He just wants to remove vaccines.
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Time for ALL OF US to get in to some #GoodTrouble
Some
#NecessaryTrouble
As @corybooker.com said “It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong”
Some
#NecessaryTrouble
As @corybooker.com said “It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong”
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Time for ALL OF US to get in to some #GoodTrouble
Some
#NecessaryTrouble
As @corybooker.com said “It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong”
Some
#NecessaryTrouble
As @corybooker.com said “It’s not left or right, it’s right or wrong”