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Cristian Carmeli
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Population health scientist · Senior lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland · Cyclist and theater lover · Papà.

Social & life course epidemiology
Monitoring of chronic diseases & mortality
Causal inference from observational data
Data science
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities (Gift Article)
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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harvardepi.bsky.social
Happy (early) Birthday to the father of Field Epidemiology! John Snow, who turns 212 on March 15th, is legendary for using disease mapping to determine the source of the London cholera outbreak in 1854. #JohnSnow #Epidemiology
John Snow cholera map and John Snow in a party hat
March 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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swissepi.bsky.social
Life course #epidemiology has changed the way we understand the causes of chronic diseases 😎 Do you want to know more⁉️ Read this review in @thelancetph.bsky.social @rosevdlinden.bsky.social @stephane-cullati.bsky.social @cristianmeli.bsky.social #PopHealthLab
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Life course epidemiology and public health
Life course epidemiology aims to study the effect of exposures on health outcomes across the life course from a social, behavioural, and biological perspective. In this Review, we describe how life co...
www.thelancet.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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fabiosabatini.bsky.social
🧵 I nostri media non si sono accorti che gli Stati Uniti sono in transizione dalla democrazia a un regime autoritario.

Non il tipo di regime in cui esiste un solo partito e gli oppositori vengono imprigionati, esiliati o uccisi.

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February 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
There will be nothing left of biomedical research in the US when Trump is done. Just think about that and anytime you or someone
you love has been sick or dying. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees
Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC
www.science.org
February 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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nataliaortega.bsky.social
Join us for the Causal Inference for the Health Sciences Symposium on March 20th at the University of Zurich!

A day of insightful talks & networking with experts in causal inference & health research.

Program and registration for in-person or online attendance: projects.unifr.ch/pophealthlab...
February 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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bmj.com
McDonald's is overturning council attempts to prevent new fast food outlets by claiming they will encourage healthier lifestyles, reveals a BMJ investigation.

It shows the firm has won planning appeals in some of the most deprived areas of England
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Signs on McDonalds
February 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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ourworldindata.org
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.

All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.

We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
A chart in three parts showing data on child mortality to make the points that "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time."
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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pausalz.bsky.social
During 2020, I read through Robins 1986 and did a thread as I went through. That thread disappeared after I left (but lived on in the archive I saved).

I finally put it together and host the original thread on my website now

pzivich.github.io/pages/robins...
Robins 1986
My 2020 reading of Robins 1986.
pzivich.github.io
November 8, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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jeremylabrecque.bsky.social
For those who still remember Wayne's World
July 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
cristianmeli.bsky.social
Educational inequalities in multimorbidity at older ages: a multi-generational population-based study
doi.org/10.1093/eurp...
Educational inequalities in multimorbidity at older ages: a multi-generational population-based study
AbstractBackground. Social inequalities in multimorbidity may occur due to familial and/or individual factors and may differ between men and women. Using p
doi.org
June 7, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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epiellie.bsky.social
Curious to learn more about epidemiology? You’re in luck! Our book is coming soon to a bookstore near you 🥳🥳

More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
New blog post! Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about the ATE, ATT, and ATU + how to calculate them with observational data! #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...
Before we calculate these different treatment effects with the realized outcomes instead of the hypothetical potential outcomes, let’s look really quick at the practical difference between the true ATE, ATT, and ATU. All three estimands are useful for policymaking! The ATE is −15, implying that mosquito nets cause a 15 point reduction in malaria risk for every person in the country. This includes people who live at high elevations where mosquitoes don’t live, people who live near mosquito-infested swamps, people who are rich enough to buy Bill Gates’s mosquito laser, and people who can’t afford a net but would really like to use one. If we worked in the Ministry of Health and wanted to know if we should make a new national program that gave everyone a free bed net, the overall reduction in risk is −15, which is probably pretty good! The ATT is −16.29, which is bigger than the ATE. The effect of net usage is bigger for people who are already using the nets. This is because of underlyi Mirrored histogram showing “weird” parts of the population: treated people who were unlikely to be treated, and untreated people who were likely to be treated Mirrored histogram showing pseudo-populations of treated and untreated people that have been reweighted to be more comparable and unconfounded
March 21, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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mariaglymour.bsky.social
Apparently this Annual Review of Dev Psych issue is open access, so this paper -- wonderfully led by Dr. Gabe Schwartz -- is available: www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
re causal inference in lifecourse epi.
#EpiSky
December 12, 2023 at 12:50 AM