Deb Karasek
@karasekd
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Social epidemiologist and Asst Prof @publichealthpdx. Mama, amateur potter, population health, birth equity, guaranteed income researcher (she/her).
Portland, OR
Joined November 2010
Hey there #epitwitter #statstwitter! We are seeking an Associate Professor of #Epidemiology to join our team here @publichealthpdx ! Accepting applications until November 26th, 2023. Hope to hear from you! CC: @Epijobs
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I’ve been saying for decades that women would be imprisoned for abortions—they are in prison already for stillbirths, miscarriages & other pregnancy-related crimes—& anti-abortion advocates kept denying they would be so cruel. The gloves are off.
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Celeste Burgess, 19, and her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, were charged last year after the police obtained their private Facebook messages.
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Excited that we could contribute to the literature on the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on parents and infants. Grateful to @CTSIatUCSF for funding this work! @UCSFPTBI @alisongemmill @k_andreujackson
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#SooninAJPH "The Pent-up Demand for Breastfeeding among U.S. Women: Trends after COVID-19 Shelter-in-place" There was an increase in breastfeeding during early pandemic policies, with disparities by income and race/ethnicity.@DrRitaHamad @alisongemmill @k_andreujackson @karasekd
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New paper in @AmJPrevMed finds that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes in US cities improved the health of mothers and their infants. https://t.co/U5R2RRLNeQ Co-authors: @k_andreujackson @DrRitaHamad @karasekd A short 🧵
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đź‘ŹReally important new work from @davidJXgonzalez @rmfrosch @PhySciEng on racial disparities in oil and gas exposure in CA featuring some beautiful and saddening figures. Look at the gradient of increased exposure for NH-Black Californians to higher-producing oil and gas wells:
We already knew that oil and gas wells are more likely to be in Black, Latinx, and low-income neighborhoods. In this new study, we learned that these disparities were worst for Black people living in neighborhoods with the most intensive oil production 1/n
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Maternal health is a national priority. We desperately need more info on how to improve maternal health and promote equity. In the new @AmJEpi, our team led by @Menolly provides new evidence @drdmrichardson @kjohnmcconnell @Mirodriguez731. Results🧵/1 https://t.co/As0DiqycKi
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Abstract. Postpartum readmissions (PPRs) represent a critical marker of maternal morbidity after hospital childbirth. Most severe maternal morbidity (SMM)
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San Francisco's paid parental leave program shows that designing policy with an equity focus is essential to reach the people who need it most. New research from @Karasekd, @Julia__Goodman, @seraifman @DrRitaHamad & @WilliamHDow
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Know any great scientific grant writers, ideally with PCORI (or NIH) grant experience? Would love any recommendations for an individual or org that has a health equity approach.
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climate change will keep offering opportunities to learn from our mistakes led by @JNwanajiEnwerem -- we need #EnvironmentalJustice and #CivicHealth in preparedness, adaptation, and mitigation to reduce health disparities @LancetRH_Americ
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Our new paper on San Francisco's PPLO is out. Though paid leave has clear and well-documented benefits, the impact on health outcomes can be hard to detect in a population-based study. This partly has to do with limitations in who the policy is actually reaching. 👇
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This isn’t a critique of paid leave, which we know is beneficial for parents and babies, but rather that policymakers should consider equity explicitly in policy the design and implementation. 2/2
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