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Deanna Giraldi, MPH
@deannagiraldi.bsky.social
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PhDing @DSPI_Oxford 📚| Health Policy MPH @YaleSPH 🩺 | survivorship x trauma x gun violence x qualitative researcher | opinions are my own 🌱
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Paris street featuring a portrait of a woman in lines Portrait mural of a young child with striking eyes Mural on the high side of a building above a cafe ft a man with his newspaper A building in Montmartre filled with hearts and a depiction of the Sacre Coeur
November 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Every time I travel, one of my favorite things to do is look at street art: a 🧵
The faces of children painted as a mural in Paris Liberty is therapeutic, truth is revolutionary Mural of a young boy holding “La paix” with a man walking in the foreground “Knowledge is power” “the future is unwritten”
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Another perk of studying in England: a quick trip to #Paris for exploring & a change of scenery for writing 👩🏻‍💻 #feelinglucky
Deanna in front of Notre Dame cathedral! The Louvre! Deanna in front of the Eiffel Tower! Pain au chocolate & hot chocolate by the Seine.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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It’s a teaching day!

First up: political sociology 📚
Old library building covered in red ivy at St Antony’s College, Oxford.
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.”
September 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Gun violence is, has been, and continues to be preventable, bipartisan crisis.
= C US Subscribe • LIVE UPDATES Trump says conservative activist Charlie Kirk is dead By Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury, Aditi Sangal, Dalia Faheid, Elizabeth Wolfe and Tori B. Powell, CNN Updated 4:49 PM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Happy Wednesday 🍃
Aerial view of people walking on a sidewalk with various captions: “became an uncle” “plans to propose tonight” “feeling self conscious”
September 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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We camped the night before to get in line for tickets!
Tents in line for Wimbledon Sunset over campsite for Wimbledon tickets
July 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Great time at Wimbledon yesterday watching Taylor Fritz & then Carlos Alcaraz on Centre Court! 🎾
Deanna sitting in front of center court at Wimbledon Wimbledon’s famous hill with some strawberries and cream Taylor Fritz practice court Carlos Alcaraz serving on center court
July 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Policy change!
Sweden set to ban AR-15 semiautomatic rifles for hunting 11 hours ago - The Swedish government and the Sweden Democrats have reportedly agreed to ban AR-15 semi-automatic rifles for hunting, with current...
June 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert "We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
June 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The possibility of prison for identifying masked “agents” who are abducting people from schools, homes, cars, workplaces, and streets…
People who publicly identify ICE agents could face up to five years in prison under a new GOP bill introduced in Congress. On June 4, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn (TN) introduced the "Protecting Law Enforcement From Doxxing Act," which makes it a crime to "dox" federal law enforcement officials - specifically highlighting ICE agents. Blackburn's bill proposes punishments including fines and up to five years in prison for those who publicly identify an officer "with the intent to obstruct a criminal investigation or immigration enforcement operation." The introduction of the bill comes as masked, unidentifiable ICE agents across the country are abducting people from their homes, schools, and workplaces, from their vehicles, and off of the streets. The bill's introduction also comes just days after ICE agents were ordered to begin arresting more people - even without warrants - in an effort to reach their enhanced quotas.
June 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Tea ceremony photos!
Lovely China cups Chinese tea snacks Presentation on the 6 types of Chinese tea
June 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Today I tried to access the former Surgeon General's statement on firearm violence as a #publichealth crisis and was met with a 404
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Bonus to conferences: seeing my best friend from undergrad in London! 🥰
Deanna & Alex in London Paddington!
May 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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So proud to celebrate my brother’s graduation from #Fordham University yesterday 🐏

The most witty & brilliant #physicist we’ll ever get to love❤️

Next stop: Masters in Medical Physics

#AcademicSky
Siblings with the graduate in front of Keating Hall at Fordham! New graduate in the crowd! Graduation ceremony at Keating Hall, Fordham University.
May 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Beautiful day for the annual @dspi-oxford.bsky.social SERSPI early career #conference at St. Hilda’s, Oxford 📚☀️

#AcademicSky #SocSky #PublicHealth #SocialPolicy
Deanna and her doctoral colleagues in front of a canal and green fields Canal with a boat serving high tea approaching Skyline view of the Radcliffe camera from St Hilda’s
May 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I am, once again, telling you to go read this book. Trust me.

#BookSky #AcademicSky
Ijeoma Oluo MEDIOCRE The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
May 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The sun is out in Oxford and the office has shifted outside! ☀️
The canal framed by a weeping willow and bright blue sky Wooden table and chairs on St Antony’s quad with a dog visitor resting in green grass by an owner with a straw hat
May 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month! 🧠

You matter & so does your (mental) health 🌸
• Call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline • Text HOME to 741-741 for Crisis Text Line • Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66-746 for the Disaster Distress Hotline • Call 1-866-488-7386, text START to 678-678 or click here to chat with The Trevor Project (for LGBTQ youth) • Call 1-800-799-7233 or text LOVEIS to 22-522 to connect with The National Domestic Violence Hotline.
May 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Reminds me of an excerpt from one of my favorite quotes
"To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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‼️ While the chart plots existing research, the gaps highlight underexplored areas where future inquiry and limited resources should be strategically directed.

⬇️ read more in our new @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social study!

#gunviolence #nonfatal #injuryprevention #firearms #academicsky #socsky
A visual map of existing firearm violence research over the past 25 years
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Ways Pope Francis followed Jesus in a world where people flaunt religion:
- criticized ecological destruction as violence against the poor
- supported civil unions for same-sex couples as a legal right
- appointed the first woman to presidency of the Vatican
- outspoken about the rights of migrants
Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Pope Francis 1936-2025
April 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Excited to share my first #PhD paper, now published in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social 📝

#scopingreview #gunviolence

Read more: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https://a...
April 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM