Keelia O’Malley
keelia-omalley.bsky.social
Keelia O’Malley
@keelia-omalley.bsky.social
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Excited for my first trip to @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social next week!!! 👏🙌

I'll be giving a seminar presentation on 4/8 for the Institute for Health and Social Policy.

The event will be in person and virtual.

Registration: bit.ly/IHSPAPRIL8.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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A powerful essay by @mnlaska.bsky.social that captures one of the things I find most disturbing about these times. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/13/i...
If we don’t act now, we risk losing the institutions that keep our society open, informed and free • Minnesota Reformer
History shows us the dangers of suppressing opposing views.
minnesotareformer.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship:

Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vaccination as a cause of autism—myths and controversies
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment current...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I'm hearing that the Louisiana Department of Health has lost access to the federal accounts that pay for the state Medicaid program. This likely means Medicaid payments either won't be made on Friday or the state will have to front the money itself. Likely over $100m.
January 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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We need to turn the flood map on NOLA Ready to a streets plowed map.
January 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM