Jacob Bor

Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021". nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opi…

Why aren't we doing this, South Africa? Poverty alleviation interventions work.

Kudos and appreciation for my co-authors @DrMaryTBassett @JuliaRaifman @astokespop @atheendar @himmelhandler @swoolhandler @BUSPH

The "Missing Americans" offers another way to look at the U.S. mortality disadvantage, which often focuses on differences in life expectancy, e.g.: @shwoolf ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.210…

Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021". nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opi…

1. Thank you to @BostonGlobe for continuing to shine a light on COVID and its impacts on mortality and morbidity. Since the shift in racial/ethnic patterns of deaths is perhaps a bit surprising, I want to walk through our findings and some hypotheses. 🧵 bostonglobe.com/2023/02/20/met…

But that’s just more future business for the weapons manufacturers… v happy for their shareholders today. Ugh.

It is also terrible national security policy. Anyone here feel safer knowing we are doing next to nothing to protect livelihoods and mitigate the climate refugee crisis?

This is terrible policy on ethical grounds.

Let me get this straight: Congress is planning $858B for military and $1B for climate aid to poor countries. A giant FU to the worlds poor who are already impacted by climate change of our making.

That wastewater trend is not good at all. No idea what the peak will be but there seems to have been a significant increase in transmission in the last week or so. Any good explanations?

1000s in Franklin Park today for free vaccine event. Major props to ⁦@BPHC⁩ ⁦@OjikutuBisola⁩ ⁦@MayorWu⁩ for this effort!

@ewrigleyfield Helen Epstein has been the best general audience writer on this (NY Review of Books pieces, etc). there's a debate about how much it matters at this point in the epidemic -- I'd leave that question to the ID modelers -- but during the more explosive phase, I find it compelling

**New Faculty Opening** in our department. (See links below.) BU School of Public Health is a great place to work; DM me if you want to chat about it. (NB: I am not on the search committee.)

Despite the eastern MA drought, the tomatoes have been resilient!

#UequalsU in the house @AIDS2022

@HE2RO_SA @BR999 @AIDS_conference After many zoom meetings over the last three years, it was the greatest pleasure to meet Bruce @BR999 in the flesh at #AIDS2022. Founder of the #UequalsU Campaign, collaborator on our @NIMHgov project #UndetectableAndYOU and multiple papers, and a human being I deeply admire.

Intuit-SA team, @JacobBor and Dorina Onoya with @BR999 at the @AIDS_conference. #AIDS2022 #AIDS2022Engage #HE2RO@AIDS2022