Bibhav Acharya, MD @bibhav.bsky.social
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Professor and Fellowship Director for Global Mental Health: @UCSFpsychiatry; Co-founder: @Possiblehealth; Alum: @YaleMed @Haverfordedu 🇳🇵🇺🇸
Joined March 2012
Looking forward to visiting @JohnsHopkinsSPH to share our insights from testing a novel strategy to reduce intimate partner violence: engaging the mother-in-law and the husband to create a supportive family structure. Dec 9, 4 PM ET Join in-person in Baltimore or on zoom 👇
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When women face violence from a partner, the common advice is to leave. But for many, leaving isn't possible. We asked: Can we reduce violence and improve mental health by creating a supportive structure within the family? Sharing our protocol for this innovative approach.
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🌍 Request for Proposals: The #MentalHealth impacts of #ClimateChange can’t be ignored. We’re seeking CSOs in #Brazil, #India, #Ethiopia, #Pakistan, the #Philippines & #PacificSIDS to help integrate mental health into climate adaptation plans. Apply ➡️ https://t.co/R7XuPg4iPs
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has change of heart.
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Honestly amazing how every illegal immigrant is simultaneously a destitute ward of the state AND fully approved for 30 year mortgages and soaking up all the quarter million dollar housing stock.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
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The conversation we really need to have about SNAP and EBT is that these are functionally corporate subsidies. You don't pay your workers a living wage, and the state makes up the shortfall.
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Congratulations Sajama Nepali for receiving the early career researcher presentation award at the Global Mental Health Summit! Wonderful when global and local knowledge drive innovation to improve mental health, AND our @possiblehealth member gets recognized
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Register for our Virtual Global Health Week , Dec. 2-4 & engage experts from around the world on how we can tackle a number of key global challenges. It is feee & open to all. See below.
🌍 Virtual Global Health Week 📅 Dec 2–4, 2025 | 💻 Online & Free Join @CUGH for 3 days of interactive webinars with global experts tackling today's great #GlobalHealth challenges. ✨ Learn, connect, and be inspired! 👉 Register: https://t.co/dv9m3ZaMb6
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If you are in Cape Town for the Global Mental Health Summit, don't miss the talks from our @possiblehealth team members covering two @NIH-funded intervention studies supported by @UCSF @UCSFPsychiatry
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Granta magazine's latest issue, 173, is out today, and free to read for the next four days. It is on Modi's India. I contributed an essay on the word 'Nepali' for a symposium on thirteen Indian (and in this case also Nepali and Bhutanese) languages:
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‘We had been taught to use “Nepalese” as a descriptor and “Nepali” for the language, but since we called ourselves “Nepali” in our own language, we felt that we should do so in English as well.’...
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A new meta analysis of millions of online posters finds that moral-emotional language is perhaps the number 1 rocket-booster for traffic. Most ppl who spend time building an audience by posting online about politics (or anything) come to the same realization: high dudgeon
For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the expected number of shares is 13% greater. Our new meta-analysis in @PNASNexus finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N = 4,821,006; 5 labs, 27 studies). The moral contagion effect is even stronger in
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Register now for our free @CUGHnews Global Health Week. An amazing 3 days of online workshops online and open to all. See and share https://t.co/M8Gp8TeXE7 cc @LancetGH @TheLancet @afrehealthorg @WHO @pahowho @WBG_Health @PublicHealth @ASPPHtweets @CAGH_ACSM
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CUGH’s Executive Director @keithmartinmd invites all to attend our upcoming Virtual Global Health Week! 📅 December 2 - 4 🌍Free & Open to All More details: https://t.co/ZCjqwto0d7
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My prediction/worry: - poorer patients will rely on low quality bots - middle-income will get therapists + higher quality bots (better guardrails, expand on what the therapist does) - highest income will use no-insurance, no-AI therapists for privacy
"Survival Guide For Human Therapists In A Chatbot World" 24/7 chatbot access makes hybrid therapy clear wave of future. Human therapists who cant work with chatbots are most likely to be replaced by them. Here are Do's/Dont's of a successful adaptation: https://t.co/flKcxCSD7e
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Nice overview of the history, uses, and misuses of the DSM from @awaisaftab. Highlights:
I'm obsessed with this subject—how our ability to assign clinical labels to every feature of our existence both helps and hurts us—and honestly, there's a modern Borges story to be written about a future DSM [the psychiatric diagnosis bible] that grows larger and larger until
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2 wks ago, a journal rejected my submission. Yesterday, they sent me a 2nd rejection. Same manuscript. Should I write back: "I'm sorry to make you feel regret twice." Also, when it's finally published elsewhere and I humblebrag, do I get to count this as two rejections? 😂
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📊 There is a big problem with how we measure health. We still measure health like we’re in the 20th century. It's World Mental Health Day 2025. Let’s start counting like we live in 2025.
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No surprise new study finds that what we call #Autism has many different genetic types. Equally true most psych disorders- eg there will be 10's or 100's different "schizophrenias". Psych disorders have multiple interacting causes/not simple causation.
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Autism may exist in multiple forms, with the condition's genetics and signs differing according to the age at diagnosis
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Which is better? Lactated Ringer’s solution or normal saline? The latest video in our partnership with @DGlaucomflecken summarizes the FLUID trial. 👉 https://t.co/FtWvCvELTy
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