Megan Ranney MD MPH
@meganranney.bsky.social
Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
* Bc we don't have good metrics of firearm ownership, they (like most of us) used proxies: the ratio of firearm suicide to total suicide.
* Sadly, young, Black women had the highest risk ratio.
(3/x)
* Sadly, young, Black women had the highest risk ratio.
(3/x)
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
* Bc we don't have good metrics of firearm ownership, they (like most of us) used proxies: the ratio of firearm suicide to total suicide.
* Sadly, young, Black women had the highest risk ratio.
(3/x)
* Sadly, young, Black women had the highest risk ratio.
(3/x)
Happiness is:
Seeing your kids happy.
Seeing your kids happy.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Happiness is:
Seeing your kids happy.
Seeing your kids happy.
We have gone through the looking glass.
Will we find our way back out?
Will we find our way back out?
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We have gone through the looking glass.
Will we find our way back out?
Will we find our way back out?
Tomorrow I’ll be joined by @yalesph.bsky.social alum Alex Urry, MPH ’19, now Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for what I'm SURE will be a fascinating discussion.
🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tomorrow I’ll be joined by @yalesph.bsky.social alum Alex Urry, MPH ’19, now Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for what I'm SURE will be a fascinating discussion.
🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🔗 Register here: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Grateful to Dr Demetre Daskalakis for his voice tonight 🔥 🛟🧪🩺
August 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Grateful to Dr Demetre Daskalakis for his voice tonight 🔥 🛟🧪🩺
In case you don't know what Calvinball is, and what universe we're living in:
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In case you don't know what Calvinball is, and what universe we're living in:
And now it gets even more mystifying:
July 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
And now it gets even more mystifying:
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
July 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
July 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...
What I am currently reading, in an attempt to grasp historical precedents for the current mess, and potential ways out of this situation.
Next up: a beach read (still TBD, I welcome recs!).
What are you reading? 📚
Next up: a beach read (still TBD, I welcome recs!).
What are you reading? 📚
June 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What I am currently reading, in an attempt to grasp historical precedents for the current mess, and potential ways out of this situation.
Next up: a beach read (still TBD, I welcome recs!).
What are you reading? 📚
Next up: a beach read (still TBD, I welcome recs!).
What are you reading? 📚
Confused by last night’s Senate vote on the “reconciliation” bill?
☑️It was a vote to allow the Senate to take a future vote
🧾It then has to go back to the House
💰It is NOT the FY26 budget - it just keeps government open.
⚠️But it DOES propose bad things for health - esp Medicaid & food stamps
☑️It was a vote to allow the Senate to take a future vote
🧾It then has to go back to the House
💰It is NOT the FY26 budget - it just keeps government open.
⚠️But it DOES propose bad things for health - esp Medicaid & food stamps
June 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Confused by last night’s Senate vote on the “reconciliation” bill?
☑️It was a vote to allow the Senate to take a future vote
🧾It then has to go back to the House
💰It is NOT the FY26 budget - it just keeps government open.
⚠️But it DOES propose bad things for health - esp Medicaid & food stamps
☑️It was a vote to allow the Senate to take a future vote
🧾It then has to go back to the House
💰It is NOT the FY26 budget - it just keeps government open.
⚠️But it DOES propose bad things for health - esp Medicaid & food stamps
The National Academies have been independent advisors to the US govt on science, engineering, & health since the 1860s.
Their work is now being decimated. Including their ability to advise on best practices for federal data & stats. 🧪🩺📈
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... @rickberke.bsky.social
Their work is now being decimated. Including their ability to advise on best practices for federal data & stats. 🧪🩺📈
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... @rickberke.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The National Academies have been independent advisors to the US govt on science, engineering, & health since the 1860s.
Their work is now being decimated. Including their ability to advise on best practices for federal data & stats. 🧪🩺📈
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... @rickberke.bsky.social
Their work is now being decimated. Including their ability to advise on best practices for federal data & stats. 🧪🩺📈
www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n... @rickberke.bsky.social
Here at @yalesph.bsky.social we are keeping an eye on growing #measles cases in El Paso TX - which is at the center of some major highways through the SW US. 🧪😷🩺
For the full slide deck: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ys...
For the full slide deck: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ys...
May 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here at @yalesph.bsky.social we are keeping an eye on growing #measles cases in El Paso TX - which is at the center of some major highways through the SW US. 🧪😷🩺
For the full slide deck: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ys...
For the full slide deck: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ys...
So as I struggle with what lies ahead, I keep thinking about a quote from a book a friend gave me a few years ago (link to the book, below).
Do your best.
Have humility.
But be bold. The world needs it.
bookshop.org/p/books/four...
Do your best.
Have humility.
But be bold. The world needs it.
bookshop.org/p/books/four...
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So as I struggle with what lies ahead, I keep thinking about a quote from a book a friend gave me a few years ago (link to the book, below).
Do your best.
Have humility.
But be bold. The world needs it.
bookshop.org/p/books/four...
Do your best.
Have humility.
But be bold. The world needs it.
bookshop.org/p/books/four...
Besides, if I stepped out of the arena? That could be worse.
(Vs the folks making even bigger decisions than I, with way less humility and way less knowledge. Cf Dunning-Kruger effect)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(Vs the folks making even bigger decisions than I, with way less humility and way less knowledge. Cf Dunning-Kruger effect)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Besides, if I stepped out of the arena? That could be worse.
(Vs the folks making even bigger decisions than I, with way less humility and way less knowledge. Cf Dunning-Kruger effect)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(Vs the folks making even bigger decisions than I, with way less humility and way less knowledge. Cf Dunning-Kruger effect)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New pandemic treaty between 191 countries (including China; but not the US) - this is a step into a new world, in so many ways.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h... 🩺🧪🛟
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h... 🩺🧪🛟
April 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New pandemic treaty between 191 countries (including China; but not the US) - this is a step into a new world, in so many ways.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h... 🩺🧪🛟
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h... 🩺🧪🛟
So being a child = having a disability?
April 17, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So being a child = having a disability?
I am excited to welcome Dr. Roman Macaya to @yalesph.bsky.social for our Leaders in Public Health series on April 7. At this pivotal moment for public health, he’ll share insights on health care leadership, policy, global health, & more.
Join us in person or online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us in person or online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I am excited to welcome Dr. Roman Macaya to @yalesph.bsky.social for our Leaders in Public Health series on April 7. At this pivotal moment for public health, he’ll share insights on health care leadership, policy, global health, & more.
Join us in person or online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us in person or online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
March 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
May we continue to hold people responsible for shilling false hope to desperate parents:
A team has been charged with murder, after their “treatment” killed a child 😢
(Ps: hyperbaric chambers ARE good treatments for some things - but not for ADHD or autism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
A team has been charged with murder, after their “treatment” killed a child 😢
(Ps: hyperbaric chambers ARE good treatments for some things - but not for ADHD or autism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
May we continue to hold people responsible for shilling false hope to desperate parents:
A team has been charged with murder, after their “treatment” killed a child 😢
(Ps: hyperbaric chambers ARE good treatments for some things - but not for ADHD or autism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
A team has been charged with murder, after their “treatment” killed a child 😢
(Ps: hyperbaric chambers ARE good treatments for some things - but not for ADHD or autism)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
Real life pic thanks to my husband
March 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Real life pic thanks to my husband
This decision is absolute baloney and is infuriating, likely illegal, and most of all harmful to Americans’ health
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This decision is absolute baloney and is infuriating, likely illegal, and most of all harmful to Americans’ health
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...