Nishi Dsouza
@nishitadsouza.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UNF Brooks College of Health // Researcher & mom // livability, harm reduction, community care, equity // Views my own //
The EoF global event is finally here! Check out their YouTube channel to watch sessions live, and tune in tomorrow at 9am CET to hear me speak about livability, community care, and health!
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#RestartingTheEconomy #UNForgettable
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#RestartingTheEconomy #UNForgettable
The Economy of Francesco (EoF)
The Economy of Francesco (EoF) is a global community of young economists, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from over 100 countries, committed to transforming today’s economy and giving a soul to the ec...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The EoF global event is finally here! Check out their YouTube channel to watch sessions live, and tune in tomorrow at 9am CET to hear me speak about livability, community care, and health!
youtube.com/@francescoec...
#RestartingTheEconomy #UNForgettable
youtube.com/@francescoec...
#RestartingTheEconomy #UNForgettable
It is my honor to be a plenary speaker at the EoF Global Event: Restarting the Economy in Rome! I will be speaking about livability, public health, and the benefits of community-driven interventions. Tune in to the live session on Saturday at 9:00am CET. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGn2...
ENGLISH | A Prophetic (Re)Start
YouTube video by The Economy of Francesco (EoF)
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November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It is my honor to be a plenary speaker at the EoF Global Event: Restarting the Economy in Rome! I will be speaking about livability, public health, and the benefits of community-driven interventions. Tune in to the live session on Saturday at 9:00am CET. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGn2...
📖 New Publication Alert! 📖
A Cross-Sectional Study of Acceptability and Influence of HEALing Communities Study Communications Campaign Messaging Among Community Members in Four U.S. States
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A Cross-Sectional Study of Acceptability and Influence of HEALing Communities Study Communications Campaign Messaging Among Community Members in Four U.S. States
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A Cross-Sectional Study of Acceptability and Influence of HEALing Communities Study Communications Campaign Messaging Among Community Members in Four U.S. States - Jamie Luster, Jennifer Reynolds, Rou...
Purpose Understanding reactions to health communication campaigns is essential to designing effective messaging. Multi-year campaigns through The Helping to End...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📖 New Publication Alert! 📖
A Cross-Sectional Study of Acceptability and Influence of HEALing Communities Study Communications Campaign Messaging Among Community Members in Four U.S. States
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A Cross-Sectional Study of Acceptability and Influence of HEALing Communities Study Communications Campaign Messaging Among Community Members in Four U.S. States
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
📖Check out this new publication!📖
"Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths (OODs)"
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
"Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths (OODs)"
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
Redirecting
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November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📖Check out this new publication!📖
"Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths (OODs)"
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
"Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths (OODs)"
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
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New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
📖New Publication Alert! 📖
Population Health & the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review (Social Science and Medicine)
"...there is a clear lack of community-level empirical research examining the carceral tools used by the 'care' arms of the state."
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Population Health & the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review (Social Science and Medicine)
"...there is a clear lack of community-level empirical research examining the carceral tools used by the 'care' arms of the state."
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Population Health and the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review
Mass incarceration in the US constitutes only one facet of a larger carceral network. Key carceral logics such as punishment, policing, surveillance, …
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October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📖New Publication Alert! 📖
Population Health & the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review (Social Science and Medicine)
"...there is a clear lack of community-level empirical research examining the carceral tools used by the 'care' arms of the state."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Population Health & the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review (Social Science and Medicine)
"...there is a clear lack of community-level empirical research examining the carceral tools used by the 'care' arms of the state."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The coolest thing about a job in academia is teaching, but also learning. I am sharing this reflection as I sit in a seminar about thermo fluid applications in mechanical engineering, something I know nothing about. Interdisciplinary research is as much about learning as it is knowledge generation.
October 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The coolest thing about a job in academia is teaching, but also learning. I am sharing this reflection as I sit in a seminar about thermo fluid applications in mechanical engineering, something I know nothing about. Interdisciplinary research is as much about learning as it is knowledge generation.
New Publication Alert! This paper advocates for Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs), which provide people with opioid use disorder with dignity and treat them with empathy, necessary prerequisites to engaging individuals in behavior change.
www.qeios.com/read/ZMSIKO
www.qeios.com/read/ZMSIKO
Overdose Prevention Centers: Advancing Harm Reduction and the Right to Health in the United States
This paper advocates for Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs) to advance the right to health among people with opioid use disorder in the United States. Despite a recent decline in overdose fatalities, ...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New Publication Alert! This paper advocates for Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs), which provide people with opioid use disorder with dignity and treat them with empathy, necessary prerequisites to engaging individuals in behavior change.
www.qeios.com/read/ZMSIKO
www.qeios.com/read/ZMSIKO
"How are chocolate and research related?" I asked my students before I conducted a chocolate tasting - OOPS! I mean guided research exercise using the senses to examine physical properties of cacao confections.
#Fall2025 #PublicHealthResearch #ResearchMethods #UNForgettable
#Fall2025 #PublicHealthResearch #ResearchMethods #UNForgettable
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"How are chocolate and research related?" I asked my students before I conducted a chocolate tasting - OOPS! I mean guided research exercise using the senses to examine physical properties of cacao confections.
#Fall2025 #PublicHealthResearch #ResearchMethods #UNForgettable
#Fall2025 #PublicHealthResearch #ResearchMethods #UNForgettable
New publication alert!
"The [Systems Think Tank] demonstrated how [system dynamics] modeling can be used to build mutual understanding and inform exploration of complex health problems, such as the opioid crisis, within diverse communities."
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"The [Systems Think Tank] demonstrated how [system dynamics] modeling can be used to build mutual understanding and inform exploration of complex health problems, such as the opioid crisis, within diverse communities."
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Frontiers | System dynamics modeling in support of community-based decision-making to reduce opioid overdose fatalities
Both New York State (NYS) and the United States have experienced heightened levels of opioid overdose death and prevalence of opioid use in recent decades. W...
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August 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New publication alert!
"The [Systems Think Tank] demonstrated how [system dynamics] modeling can be used to build mutual understanding and inform exploration of complex health problems, such as the opioid crisis, within diverse communities."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
"The [Systems Think Tank] demonstrated how [system dynamics] modeling can be used to build mutual understanding and inform exploration of complex health problems, such as the opioid crisis, within diverse communities."
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
"...results suggest that housing assistance is feasible and beneficial for patients receiving MOUD...[however], providing temporary financial assistance for housing without accounting for how the rent will be paid once the assistance ends risks making patients homeless again."
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July 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"...results suggest that housing assistance is feasible and beneficial for patients receiving MOUD...[however], providing temporary financial assistance for housing without accounting for how the rent will be paid once the assistance ends risks making patients homeless again."
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Save us, o Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ & asleep may rest in peace. #nightprayer
June 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Save us, o Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ & asleep may rest in peace. #nightprayer
"How do we design housing systems so that people can thrive, not just survive?"
Deeply inspired by the community centered systems focused interventions shared in this seminar and the dedicated people driving them forward.
#HxHLab
Deeply inspired by the community centered systems focused interventions shared in this seminar and the dedicated people driving them forward.
#HxHLab
Join us today at 1pm for a Health x Housing Lab virtual research seminar! Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults w/ @kellymdoran.bsky.social
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Welcome! You are invited to join the Health x Housing Lab seminar, Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e...
You are invited to a virtual research seminar highlighting community engagement in research on housing and service interventions for young adults.
Sarah Narendorf, PhD, LCSW and Aryeana Straughter w...
nyulangone.zoom.us
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"How do we design housing systems so that people can thrive, not just survive?"
Deeply inspired by the community centered systems focused interventions shared in this seminar and the dedicated people driving them forward.
#HxHLab
Deeply inspired by the community centered systems focused interventions shared in this seminar and the dedicated people driving them forward.
#HxHLab
"A new economy inspired by Francis of Assisi can and must become an economy of friendship with the earth and an economy of peace.” - Pope Francis
#RIP #PopeFrancis #EconomyOfFrancesco
#RIP #PopeFrancis #EconomyOfFrancesco
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"A new economy inspired by Francis of Assisi can and must become an economy of friendship with the earth and an economy of peace.” - Pope Francis
#RIP #PopeFrancis #EconomyOfFrancesco
#RIP #PopeFrancis #EconomyOfFrancesco
I am overjoyed to share that I will be joining the faculty at the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health as an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Science. Thanks be to God and my wonderful support system of family, mentors, and friends. North or nowhere; it's time to soar! 🦅
April 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I am overjoyed to share that I will be joining the faculty at the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health as an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Science. Thanks be to God and my wonderful support system of family, mentors, and friends. North or nowhere; it's time to soar! 🦅
One way of changing behavior? Clowns!
Bogota implemented street mimes, which led to decrease road rage. An important intervention to replicate because road rage is associated with domestic violence.
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Bogota implemented street mimes, which led to decrease road rage. An important intervention to replicate because road rage is associated with domestic violence.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Academic turns city into a social experiment — Harvard Gazette
Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in…
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March 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One way of changing behavior? Clowns!
Bogota implemented street mimes, which led to decrease road rage. An important intervention to replicate because road rage is associated with domestic violence.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Bogota implemented street mimes, which led to decrease road rage. An important intervention to replicate because road rage is associated with domestic violence.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
The future of transportation? Solution for urban challenges?
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The future of transportation? Solution for urban challenges?
This is one of many articles comparing the livability of places, specifically how family-friendly they are. The article immediately starts with a call for people to move abroad. What if we instead reframe this to a call for universal design of family friendliness?
www.timeout.com/news/the-tro...
www.timeout.com/news/the-tro...
The tropical island named the world’s most family-friendly country in 2025
Cheap childcare and bags of inspiring wildlife – what more do you need
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March 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is one of many articles comparing the livability of places, specifically how family-friendly they are. The article immediately starts with a call for people to move abroad. What if we instead reframe this to a call for universal design of family friendliness?
www.timeout.com/news/the-tro...
www.timeout.com/news/the-tro...
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We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
"To save lives, it’s critical that elected leaders go all in on a public health approach to drugs—providing better access to health and harm reduction services, treatment, and drug education based in facts, not fear." - Sheila Vakharia, Drug Policy Alliance
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drugpolicy.org/news/overdos...
Overdose deaths are going down: health, harm reduction approaches play a big role - Drug Policy Alliance
Overdose deaths are finally going down due to public health solutions. Dr. Sheila Vakharia explains, including what we can do to save lives.
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March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"To save lives, it’s critical that elected leaders go all in on a public health approach to drugs—providing better access to health and harm reduction services, treatment, and drug education based in facts, not fear." - Sheila Vakharia, Drug Policy Alliance
drugpolicy.org/news/overdos...
drugpolicy.org/news/overdos...
“The lesson of Jesus that we have heard does not allow escape routes... You cannot stonewall a person who is hungry: he must be fed... The works of mercy are not theoretical ideas, but concrete testimonies. They oblige us to roll up our sleeves to alleviate suffering.” - Pope Francis
#QuoteOfTheDay
#QuoteOfTheDay
March 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“The lesson of Jesus that we have heard does not allow escape routes... You cannot stonewall a person who is hungry: he must be fed... The works of mercy are not theoretical ideas, but concrete testimonies. They oblige us to roll up our sleeves to alleviate suffering.” - Pope Francis
#QuoteOfTheDay
#QuoteOfTheDay
"Trump administration’s proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would worsen the worker shortage—deepening the housing crisis and undermining the administration’s goals to 'lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply.'"
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www.urban.org/urban-wire/m... @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Mass Deportations Would Worsen Our Housing Crisis
Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force, which is highly dependent on immigrant workers, exacerbating the US housing crisis—but some states are more at risk than others.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Trump administration’s proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would worsen the worker shortage—deepening the housing crisis and undermining the administration’s goals to 'lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply.'"
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www.urban.org/urban-wire/m... @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Where there is art, there is hope.
March 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Where there is art, there is hope.