I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating

Can we reduce bias in the provision of contraception? “There’s often a sense that young people should not be having sex. And so they are often left out of traditional family planning,” says @Manisha_econ @UCBerkeley, & @zacharywagnerr @USC. Listen & discover an innovative

It was great chatting with @timsvengali for the @vox_dev podcast about our recent RCT testing an intervention to reduce bias in family planning care #VoxDevTalks @Manisha_econ

With Corrina Moucheraud, @Manisha_econ, Allie Wollum, @willafriedman, and Will Dow

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 In this multi-country RCT just out in @EJ_RES we show that bias towards youth in family planning care reduces with a multifaceted intervention, and that this improves quality of fp care. Started this one when Obama was president! https://t.co/gxPNOUNcZ3

DEADLY IMPACTS: Researchers used tropical cyclone data for low- and middle-income countries and more than 1.6 million child records to compare deaths before and after a tropical cyclone.

New research has shown that exposure to tropical cyclones was linked to infant mortality in seven low- and middle-income countries between 2002 and 2021. https://t.co/OLPh1c0NaO

Other key findings: 1. Effects were mostly contemporaneous meaning they did not last more than 1 or 2 years after the cyclone 2. There were no effects on prenatal care use or on stunting, suggesting the key pathways are NOT disruption in health services or nutrition

We linked windfield estimates our group generated for this @Nature paper with infant survival records of over 1.6 millions babies. https://t.co/vnLj9slF8i

Our @ScienceAdvances paper on tropical cyclones and infant mortality in LMICs was just released today! Main takeaway: TCs increased infant mortality by 11% on average but effects were mostly driven by Bangladesh, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. https://t.co/PQqp2XpGsP

Our new @PNASNews paper finds exposure to a tropical cyclone around the time of primary school enrollment reduces the likelihood of ever attending school. Led by excellent Stanford postdoc Renzhi Jing.

Most people assume national household surveys are uniformly high quality. But a new study finds massive subnational differences in data quality across 35 African countries. Here's the breakdown:

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit.

VP Vance asked for a thank you for an aid package he voted against. His administration also told Zelensky that he (1) has to give up parts of his country to Putin , (2) cant join NATO, (3) has to pay back the US for past aid, and (4) there will no new aid. So exactly why does

It's entirely reasonable to both think university indirect rates are too high and a 15% ceiling is too low We want universities to be transparent and efficient But if they have to subsidize the research enterprise, it won't happen at most institutions

This decision is misguided on multiple levels. First, $4 billion a year is a trivial amount for the wealthiest country in history—especially when compared to the cost of weakening one of its greatest assets: its research institutions. Second, the damage this will inflict on

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

This study by @zacharywagnerr and colleagues builds on emerging evidence by examining the relationship between adherence to #dolutegravir-based regimens and viral suppression in #Uganda. Read the full article here: https://t.co/HpxvFicmOO

Submit your papers to PacDev at @UCLA @USC_Econ -- deadline is Dec 2. Will be a great conference!

New paper alert! Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away (the U.S., 2020), a health policy shock happened. Well, a lot of shocks happened. It was a shocking time. I digress. One shock that happened is that many insurers made telehealth available at $0 cost sharing. 1/n