Kiara Alvarez
@kalvarezphd
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Asst Prof | Behavioral Health Equity & Youth Suicide Prevention | Psychologist | Boricua šµš· | She/her/ella | Views my own | Taking a break from X
Baltimore, MD
Joined October 2017
So grateful ā¤ļøšµš·
Thrilled and proud to celebrate ā¦@IRIfellowshipā© alum Dr Kiara Alvarez at her installation as Bloomberg Professor of American Health at Johns Hopkins School@of Public Health.
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What will the Presidential election mean for immigrationāand for immigrants? Swipe through the key takeaways from the latest Public Health on Call Election 2024 Special Series episode that covers what's at stake on the ballot for immigrants and immigration. Listen to the full
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Elated to be one of the 11 Cancer Moonshot Scholars as I evaluate the impact of structural racism on lung cancer biology and outcomes in African Americansšš¾. @cityofhope @ABCTS_1999 @SocietyofBAS @STS_CTsurgery @AATSHQ @WomenInThoracic
Today, the #BidenCancerMoonshot announced a new cohort of Cancer Moonshot Scholars and awarded $6 million to this next generation of innovators in cancer prevention, treatment, and diagnosis. Learn more about the Scholars: https://t.co/3UJR9fKqzM
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Brought to you from the same team that literally threw rolls of paper towels at Puerto Rican victims of Hurricane Maria. Itās disgusting. I denounce this racism in the strongest possible terms and call on every candidate of every party to do the same.
Trump rally speaker: āThereās literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think itās called Puerto Ricoā
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So proud of @OREDC_ team! This dashboard took years of collaboration with impacted residents and DC Gov senior leadership. This tool will allow the public and gov staff to learn more about racial equity and track progress towards improving outcomes for all District residents.
ORE's #DataDashboard is now live! This platform will serve as a tool for providing timely, relevant, and accessible data onāÆmany racial equity indicators across 7 dimensions of lifeāÆin the District. Check out the dashboard here: https://t.co/khp3pYHqp8
#RacialEquity
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To conclude, if the polling shows support for mass deportations and other cruel and ineffective policies (often due to an inability to foresee what they will look like in practice), itās not your task to fall for inhumanity, but to help redraw the line on where we should stand.
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The immigration discourse in this country is so messed up that the āsmartā response here by Harris is to pivot to the border bill and the Sinaloa cartel and not the ACTUAL POLICIES the Biden/Harris admin has advanced to help undocumented people like this womanās mother. /1
Harris takes a tearful question from a woman whose mother recently died in part because she was an undocumented immigrant and as a result couldn't get the healthcare she needed. She responds with empathy and by explaining her immigration plan in detail.
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Folks, many phones have a satellite texting feature which will allow you to send messages even if you lose cell service and power. Please review the article below to find this feature on your device so you can stay connected to loved ones no matter what. https://t.co/m9eWUonka5
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In light of potential power outages and disrupted cellular services, knowing how to send a distress signal via satellite could be a lifesaver.
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Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations
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Farmworkers in FL are often left behind because while they live inland they live in low-lying geography. Radio Conciencia is a lifeline for Immokalee farmworkers, whose listeners say they only left for the shelter because of what they heard on the radio https://t.co/0LNTFddQzP
miamiherald.com
A radio station run by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers helps immigrant workers prepare for disasters such as Hurricane Milton
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The Lancet Commission on self-harm has now been published! Free access for the next 50 days via this link:
Self-harm remains neglected worldwide, with at least 14 million episodes yearly. In a new Lancet Commission, experts including co-author Helen Christensen, Scientia Professor of Mental Health at @UNSW Sydney and Research Fellow at Black Dog Institute, urge policy action on
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Self-harm remains neglected worldwide, with at least 14 million episodes yearly. In a new Lancet Commission, experts including co-author Helen Christensen, Scientia Professor of Mental Health at @UNSW Sydney and Research Fellow at Black Dog Institute, urge policy action on
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If youāre experiencing thoughts of suicide, donāt be afraid to reach out. You can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or Teens can contact Teen Line. Call 800-852-8336 from 6-10pm PST or text TEEN to 839863 from 6-9pm PST to reach a trained teen listener.
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In the words of @haitianbridge's Executive Director Guerline M. Jozef, attacks against Haitian migrants are "an attempt to vilify and divide. Still, we must stand up and say, 'Not in our names.'" Let's welcome Haitian migrants with dignity and reject racist attempts to divide us.
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5) In other words, we are keeping some Latinx families in treatment for too long without extra benefits for them. This inequity might be due to PCIT skill benchmarks of success that don't align well with the directive parenting practices of Latinx caregivers
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Check us out!!!!
New @APA_Journals Article Spotlight! "Racism on the mind: How ruminating about racial discrimination influences anxiety and depression among Black youths" by @donte_bernard et al. Read it here: https://t.co/z8f89CK3uh
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1/4 Scholars' infatuation with human/social capital is due to academic training focusing on "inequality as categories" rather than *inequality as processes." And "inequality as processes" vary across socially constructed groups bc of history.
I really like this paper by @FenabaAddo and @SandyDarity and Samuel Meyer. I make a similar argument about poverty research and the overuse of human/social capital as explanations for Black-White inequality.
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For those interested in @NIH_LRP application templates, I have posted my 3 NIH Loan Repayment Plan funded "Clinical Research" award applications. 1st submission - Mentored LRP, 2nd submission - Independent LRP, and 3rd submission - Independent LRP https://t.co/y3TW5IeOsS
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