Alessandra Bazzano

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Majority of Louisiana voters support abortion rights wrkf.org/2023-04-10/new…

The inequality of women in global health was made worse by the pandemic : Goats and Soda npr.org/sections/goats…

‘I’m not a doctor just FYI’: the influencers paid to hawk drugs on TikTok theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…

Amidst a global pandemic and economic recession, pregnant & postpartum workers remain vulnerable. The Senate must pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act NOW. Write your senators: #ProtectPregnantWorkers bit.ly/PWFAnow22

Since 2017 hurricanes have been relentless. We've had five cat 4s and one cat 5 impact the Gulf Coast. That's six catastrophic hurricanes in 6 seasons...before 2017 it took 45 years for the US to be impacted by six Cat 4/5 hurricanes. I know everyone is so tired. #BeOn4

M discurso completo ante las Naciones Unidas. youtu.be/F_HJHZd1w2o

Hard to say colonialism is a thing of the past when the monarch of England dying gets 100x the attention of a U.S. colony being flooded devastated by a hurricane while the privately owned power company the U.S. imposed fails utterly.

Finishing a trip to San Fran/Silicon Valley. Met with many smart and thoughtful tech leaders. But there's still a big disconnect between how average Americans think about technology vs. how the industry views tech. It's a dangerous divide. 1/ A few thoughts from the trip.

Academia: where sorting out a $3 purchase costs $3,000 of personnel effort.

US child poverty can be solved #mch theguardian.com/us-news/2022/s…

Seniors in high school in Oklahoma can carry an AR-15 without a permit but are banned from reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

Louisiana leads the nation in children and teens killed by homicide. Meanwhile, our child welfare system is in free fall: DCFS is understaffed, overextended and often unable to respond to reports that children are unsafe. From 'suffering so young': nola.com/news/article_1…

This is just incredibly simple and correct.

By age 2, US kids are supposed to have receive 3 doses of inactivated #polio vaccine. In NY's Rockland County, 39.5% of 2 yos have not received the recommended doses, per a state dept of health press release. Polioviruses & unvaxed kids are a dangerous combination.

Which types of social capital best explain economic mobility? Using data from Facebook, we consider more than a dozen social capital measures and our answers appear in a pair of papers in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/5

2016: Will America vote for a female president? 2022: Should women have healthcare?

People aren't productivity machines.

How climate change could drive an increase in gender-based violence nature.com/articles/d4158…