Anita Raj
anitaraj.bsky.social
Anita Raj
@anitaraj.bsky.social
Executive Director of Newcomb Institute and Professor of Public Health at Tulane University.
Gender and health equity researcher.
Believer that data and collective action can create positive change & frightened no one else believes this anymore.
Pinned
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Anyone want to talk about how academics and researchers can use #genderdata to advance #women’s-equality & #empowerment in the U.S.? It seems more work is needed than even I had anticipated.
Hi all! Does anyone know how the decisions are getting made for how much federal funding a university gets cut for supposed infractions? $400M for Columbia. $600M for Hopkins. Now $175M for U Penn.
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
U.S. leadership in scientific discovery and innovation is at an end. This is not the country my father came to from India as a post-doc in 1968. It is painful to watch every field of science hit with federal funding losses.
March 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Was thinking about the words they will flag on NSF grants. We could all just organize and make sure we use at least 10 of the words in every grant submitted. It won’t be hard. Words they have flagged include: “barrier”, “excluded”, and “women”.

#solidarityinscience
February 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reposted by Anita Raj
I'm a reporter at NBC News and I'm interested in speaking with people who are familiar with the specific technical details of onboarding DOGE staff at the federal agency level — USAID or CFPB or wherever. You can reach me on Signal at: davidingram.77. I can honor requests for anonymity.
February 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
For the first time in almost a decade, we will have no women serving as committee chairs in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are qualified Republican women in office. So what happened?
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Men Sweep Congress Chairmanships as Republican Women Lose Ground
It’s almost certain no female lawmaker will hold a House committee gavel, resulting in the first all-male panel leadership lineup in almost a decade.
news.bgov.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Anita Raj
Justice
Dignity
Freedom
Peace
Liberty
Equality
Non-Discrimination
Agency/Choice

ALL human rights for ALL people are still the best bet for the future of our planet 🌍🌎🌏

#InternationalHumanRightsDay
December 10, 2024 at 6:59 PM
People know that most men don’t have sexual violence allegations or inquiries raised against them, right? The probability of selecting someone who does for a job is low. Yet…
November 23, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Happy to share this new National Academies report from a committee I co-chaired. The work highlights the value of women’s #empowerment policies and programs for #globalhealth and #globaldevelopment, and the research gaps in this area that need to be filled.

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/wom...
www.nationalacademies.org
November 17, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Anyone want to talk about how academics and researchers can use #genderdata to advance #women’s-equality & #empowerment in the U.S.? It seems more work is needed than even I had anticipated.
November 15, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Well hello, Blue Sky! I hear this is where scientists, journalists, and educators are gravitating, so here I am.
Anyone interested in chatting about using #genderdata and #collectiveaction to get our #reprorights back & to end #violenceagainstwomen? Time for civic preparedness my academic friends!
November 15, 2024 at 4:59 AM