Luisa N. Borrell
@lborrell.bsky.social
DP Epid/Bios @cunysph.bsky.social: Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position and neighborhood effects as #SDoH | Posts=my opinions/views | RT!= endorsement. EiC: Preventive Medicine (PM) & PM Reports #EpiSky, #SocialEpi, #SDoH, #Epidemiology, #CausalInference
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Luisa N. Borrell
@lborrell.bsky.social
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Body mass index inequities among adults in Spain: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy of age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education
We aimed to examine intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain.We analyzed data fro…
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Delighted to share our paper with E. Rodriguez, N. Lanborena, S. Yago and J. Diez examining intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain using I-MAIHDA. @cunysph.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social
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🌍📊A new study led by #CUNYSPH Distinguished Prof Luisa N. Borrell reveals significant BMI disparities in Spain tied to age, sex, immigration status, and education—highlighting the need for intersectional public health strategies.
🔗 cunysph.me/4pSTpaT
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Study reveals BMI disparities among immigrants in Spain - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
A new study led by Distinguished Professor Luisa N. Borrell found significant inequities in body mass index (BMI) among adults in Spain, driven by age, sex, immigration status, and education. The research, which used data...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🌍📊A new study led by #CUNYSPH Distinguished Prof Luisa N. Borrell reveals significant BMI disparities in Spain tied to age, sex, immigration status, and education—highlighting the need for intersectional public health strategies.
🔗 cunysph.me/4pSTpaT
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Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
Delighted to share our paper with E. Rodriguez, N. Lanborena, S. Yago and J. Diez examining intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain using I-MAIHDA. @cunysph.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Body mass index inequities among adults in Spain: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy of age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education
We aimed to examine intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain.We analyzed data fro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Delighted to share our paper with E. Rodriguez, N. Lanborena, S. Yago and J. Diez examining intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain using I-MAIHDA. @cunysph.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Delighted to share our paper with E. Rodriguez, N. Lanborena, S. Yago and J. Diez examining intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain using I-MAIHDA. @cunysph.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Body mass index inequities among adults in Spain: An intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy of age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education
We aimed to examine intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain.We analyzed data fro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Delighted to share our paper with E. Rodriguez, N. Lanborena, S. Yago and J. Diez examining intersectional BMI inequities across age, sex/gender, immigration status, and education among adults in Spain using I-MAIHDA. @cunysph.bsky.social @uahes.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very interesting read: “solidarity-based [epid] is the explicit practice of [epid] aimed at dismantling structural inequities in health through the promotion of shared interests, with the goals of overcoming domination and exploitation and, ultimately, of achieving justice.” #EpiSky #SocEpi
Public health is under attack. It’s not enough to fight back, we need to make our field better for everyone.
Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?”
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Today’s E is for Epi guest post by @jessieish.bsky.social & Nadia Abuelezam asks “what would a solidarity-based epidemiology look like?”
Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Solidarity-based Epidemiology: A guest post
Re-distributing power inside and outside of the field
open.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - who collectively served under both Republican & Democratic administrations - came together to write this piece raising alarm about how RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - who collectively served under both Republican & Democratic administrations - came together to write this piece raising alarm about how RFK Jr. is endangering public health in the United States.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Very interesting! I recently received a review where the reviewer literally demanded I cite at least 15 articles by the same first author. Will this be considered a misconduct or citation extortion? Asking for a friend…🙈
Prof. Zhanhu Guo, at Northumbria University (a professional citation extortionist) suffers serious consequences for his misconduct (of course not): he must attend a couple of ethics seminars for a year to learn that it's not acceptable to force people to cite dozens of his articles. See FBS Shorts:
Schneider Shorts 29.08.2025 – Little Britain
forbetterscience.com/2025/08/29/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/08/29/s...
August 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Very interesting! I recently received a review where the reviewer literally demanded I cite at least 15 articles by the same first author. Will this be considered a misconduct or citation extortion? Asking for a friend…🙈
I couldn’t stop laughing 🤣🤣thank you for sharing 🥰🥰
An excellent example of turkey group gobbles in trees — though I intentionally kicked this one off (please enjoy my attempt at a turkey sound 😉)
August 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I couldn’t stop laughing 🤣🤣thank you for sharing 🥰🥰
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And...chef's kiss 🤌 on the footnote, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social. 👏👏👏 #IHATnotMAHA
![Excerpt from article in The Guardian, which states: "The first MAHA report “contains misinformation and uses references that don’t even exist”, she [Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs] noted. The Defend Public Health report has a tongue-in-cheek note that it was “created by real human experts relying on real rigorous data”."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k2oztp5rtx4lkcwda4wiyvny/bafkreihkiahyg6u2lqtg3bllv56cjps6gaqmqtu2zijjgnbdkpl662gymm@jpeg)
August 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And...chef's kiss 🤌 on the footnote, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social. 👏👏👏 #IHATnotMAHA
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👏 Congratulations to Dr. Yang Han of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a recipient of our Postdoctoral Fellow Award (Outstanding Promise in Social Epidemiology)!
This week, we spotlight his innovative research in our award series.
🎥 Watch the video feature here: www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
This week, we spotlight his innovative research in our award series.
🎥 Watch the video feature here: www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
August 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
👏 Congratulations to Dr. Yang Han of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a recipient of our Postdoctoral Fellow Award (Outstanding Promise in Social Epidemiology)!
This week, we spotlight his innovative research in our award series.
🎥 Watch the video feature here: www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
This week, we spotlight his innovative research in our award series.
🎥 Watch the video feature here: www.social-epi.org/ises-awards
Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
🌆🥦 In a new policy brief, #CUNYSPH Associate Professor Nevin Cohen and colleagues explore how urbanization is reshaping global food systems and creating new public health challenges for cities.
🔗cunysph.me/44QMoNX
🔗cunysph.me/44QMoNX
Cities, food, and health: Managing urban transitions - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
Associate Professor Nevin Cohen and colleagues published a policy brief that examines how urbanization is reshaping global food systems and creating new health challenges for cities. This article is…
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July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🌆🥦 In a new policy brief, #CUNYSPH Associate Professor Nevin Cohen and colleagues explore how urbanization is reshaping global food systems and creating new public health challenges for cities.
🔗cunysph.me/44QMoNX
🔗cunysph.me/44QMoNX
Hard agree 💯💯 Feedback should specific and direct without the ‘idiot’ word. It should provide solutions not more problems and confusions.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
July 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hard agree 💯💯 Feedback should specific and direct without the ‘idiot’ word. It should provide solutions not more problems and confusions.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
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My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon
How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.
www.thenation.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
🗣️Abierta la preinscripción para una nueva edición del Máster de Promoción de la Salud y Salud Comunitaria (@ehu.eus)
Más información e inscripciones: 🔗https://ehu.eus/es/web/graduondokoak/master-promocion-salud-comunitaria
📧 opik@ehu.eus
Más información e inscripciones: 🔗https://ehu.eus/es/web/graduondokoak/master-promocion-salud-comunitaria
📧 opik@ehu.eus
July 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🗣️Abierta la preinscripción para una nueva edición del Máster de Promoción de la Salud y Salud Comunitaria (@ehu.eus)
Más información e inscripciones: 🔗https://ehu.eus/es/web/graduondokoak/master-promocion-salud-comunitaria
📧 opik@ehu.eus
Más información e inscripciones: 🔗https://ehu.eus/es/web/graduondokoak/master-promocion-salud-comunitaria
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Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
Top tip:
DAGs are there to tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
DAGs are there to tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
July 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Top tip:
DAGs are there to tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
DAGs are there to tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
This @nytimes.com OP underscores the damage done to the health of the US population by cutting research funds. #Epidemiology #EpiSky #HealthEquity
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This @nytimes.com OP underscores the damage done to the health of the US population by cutting research funds. #Epidemiology #EpiSky #HealthEquity
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is an interesting offering cues we should be paying careful attention given that AI is here to stay and is becoming a ghostwriter.
#Epidemiology #EpiSky #AI #Editor #Publication
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
#Epidemiology #EpiSky #AI #Editor #Publication
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
www.nytimes.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is an interesting offering cues we should be paying careful attention given that AI is here to stay and is becoming a ghostwriter.
#Epidemiology #EpiSky #AI #Editor #Publication
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
#Epidemiology #EpiSky #AI #Editor #Publication
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
This seems to be a step forward and underscore the importance of speaking out. #Epidemiology #EpiSky
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NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
www.science.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This seems to be a step forward and underscore the importance of speaking out. #Epidemiology #EpiSky
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines
Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.
www.ama-assn.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...
This piece underscores the effects of the federal cuts to US science in funding, lab equipment, conferences, employment, etc.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs
Is US science facing a recession? Growing evidence points to a looming downturn.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This piece underscores the effects of the federal cuts to US science in funding, lab equipment, conferences, employment, etc.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Judge Young said that the NIH grant terminations were rooted in discrimination against racial, sexual, and gender minority groups: “I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.” #HealthInequity #DEI
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Judge orders NIH to restore hundreds of grants cut under Trump
William Young calls terminations illegal, berates agency for discrimination
www.science.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Judge Young said that the NIH grant terminations were rooted in discrimination against racial, sexual, and gender minority groups: “I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.” #HealthInequity #DEI
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Considered to be the father of social epidemiology, Len Syme died earlier this year at the age of 92.
In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S.
#SocialEpi #EpiSky
tinyurl.com/5yyndtk8
In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S.
#SocialEpi #EpiSky
tinyurl.com/5yyndtk8
What would Len say?
tinyurl.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Considered to be the father of social epidemiology, Len Syme died earlier this year at the age of 92.
In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S.
#SocialEpi #EpiSky
tinyurl.com/5yyndtk8
In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S.
#SocialEpi #EpiSky
tinyurl.com/5yyndtk8
Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
As @aniloza.bsky.social says so well, "File it under bureaucratic whiplash." NIH rescinds anti-DEI policy only to reinstate it hours later. Was it a mistake? Will it be rescinded again? HHS not answering questions, leaving researchers only more confused. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/n...
NIH restores DEI prohibition for grant recipients within hours of rescinding it
The NIH rescinded a 7-week-old DEI directive on Monday, only to reinstate it hours later without explanation.
www.statnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
As @aniloza.bsky.social says so well, "File it under bureaucratic whiplash." NIH rescinds anti-DEI policy only to reinstate it hours later. Was it a mistake? Will it be rescinded again? HHS not answering questions, leaving researchers only more confused. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/n...
“The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs [race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry], they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably,” said Luisa Borrell
@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
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@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
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Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research
A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.
www.statnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs [race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry], they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably,” said Luisa Borrell
@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com
@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#EpiSky #SocialEpi
www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com
Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell
Benefits of Patient-Clinician Communication for Timely Health Care Visits in Patients Perceiving Discrimination.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0053
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0053
Benefits of Patient-Clinician Communication for Timely Health Care Visits in Patients Perceiving Discrimination.
Published in JAMA network open
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Benefits of Patient-Clinician Communication for Timely Health Care Visits in Patients Perceiving Discrimination.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0053
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.0053
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📣📣 “This isn’t just about one university. It’s about whether America still values the institutions that made it strong. It’s about the future of scientific research, business leadership, and the global talent pipeline that drives U.S. innovation.”
“Seizing control of universities is among the first steps of any authoritarian regime. We’ve seen this playbook in places like Hungary. When independent institutions fall in line under political pressure, the consequences are long-term and far-reaching.” gautam.beehiiv.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens If Trump Takes Harvard?
The Indispensable Newsletter #25
gautam.beehiiv.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
📣📣 “This isn’t just about one university. It’s about whether America still values the institutions that made it strong. It’s about the future of scientific research, business leadership, and the global talent pipeline that drives U.S. innovation.”