Derek M Griffith
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Derek M Griffith
@drdmgriffith.bsky.social
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Federal efforts to dismantle DEI are also cutting health disparities research.

Derek Griffith and colleagues argue in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social that conflating DEI with disparities science threatens the nation’s economy and health.

Read: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308268
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American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
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New York Times magazine asks the question: What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor? The answer, in this in-depth article from Helen Ouyang, includes some interesting insight from GAMH chair Derek Griffith… @nytimes.com @drdmgriffith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/m...
What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?
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"Redlining And Whiteness: Colors Of Racism" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1til...)

In this AJPH podcast episode, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Caroline Efird, Derek M. Griffith, and Jonathan Metzl about the often-overlooked role of whiteness as a determinant of health.
AJPH 02/2025: Redlining And Whiteness: Colors of Racism
YouTube video by American Public Health Association
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Reposted by Derek M Griffith
Join us tomorrow, February 4, for the first Emerging Scholars Exchange Program event featuring Dr. Jade Burns, PhD, RN.

Dr. Burns is a recognized expert in adolescent health and community-based health care.

Learn more and register here:
ldi.upenn.edu/events/emerg...
Emerging Scholars Exchange Program: Jade Burns, PhD, RN
Jade Burns, PhD, RN has more than 15 years of experience working with youth and young adults (ages 0-24) in a variety of clinical, community-based and academic settings.
ldi.upenn.edu
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“My big concern in the area of health equity is we are going to go backward, and our health is going to decline,” said Derek Griffith... “NIH has multiple centers they fund on health equity. Are they under threat? How deep does the rabbit hole go?”
Researchers reel as Trump administration moves quickly to cut funding and end DEI health programs
The rapidity with which the new administration is putting in place policies to end DEI programs is sowing fear among scientists
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Reposted by Derek M Griffith
Exciting news! LDI Senior Fellows Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan are recipients of the PECASE award — the highest federal honor for early-career scientists.

Their work tackles critical issues in childhood injury prevention & health equity: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan Win Presidential PECASE Awards
LDI Senior Fellows Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, and Andy Tan, PhD, MPH, have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)…
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"Policy making that denies the existence of #structuralracism...is inconsistent with the science of racism and its effects on health."

‘Divisive Concepts’ Prohibitions: Implications For Health And Health Equity https://buff.ly/40JBadm by @drdmgriffith.bsky.social and Andrew Twinamatsiko.
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Starting Day 2 of #prcweek with a familiar keynote speaker, @upenn.edu PIK professor, Derek M Griffith PhD. #healthequity

1. Ann Smith, CDC, & Dr. Griffith
2. @drdmgriffith.bsky.social
3. “Sankofa and the Science of Community-based Health Equity Research: Charting the Course for the Next 40 Years”