Itai Bavli, PhD

Black Americans were given increased radiation doses compared to other populations. My new co-authored paper with David Jones in @NEJM. Thread. @HarvardHealth @HarvardChanSPH @ubcspph @HarvardHistSci nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Why does transparency matter for trust in public health? #trust #transpa... youtube.com/shorts/E1aHE79… via @YouTube

Happy Passover. May better days come, and freedom for all 🕊️

It was a pleasure taking part in this Purple Public Health episode w/ Dr Salma Abdalla on public health errors. From mistakes during the opioid epidemic to policy decisions, we discussed why things go wrong in PH and why learning from these errors matters youtube.com/watch?v=YBV1Ht…

What I like about Purple Public Health is that it invites difficult conversations and disagreements rather than avoiding them. That’s the message we should be sending our students

For more on the causes, impacts, prevention, and ethics of public health errors, see my Substack open.substack.com/pub/itaibavli

#StayCurious Anyone else want to get less wrong? @ibavli FTW! @WashU, @sandrogalea and #DrAbdalla with their Purple Public Health project. Purple Public Health episode—Beyond blame: understanding public health e... youtu.be/YBV1Ht_O7bw?si… via @YouTube

When Hemingway told Fitzgerald, “Kiss my ass.” My latest in When Public Health Goes Wrong on the power of honest feedback open.substack.com/pub/itaibavli/…

@haneenshib מזל טוב על המאמר החדש, חנין. איזה כיף לראות את ההתקדמות וההצלחה שלך

תודה לכל העמיתים והקולגות על העבודה המרתקת. ניתן לקרוא את המאמר כאן: lnkd.in/giAXbbsW אשמח לשלוח גם את קובץ PDF למי שאין גישה

והנה הפרסום הראשון שלי לשנת 2026 שפורסם אתמול בכתב העת Journal of Traumatic Stress זה לא סוד שתחומי המחקר שלי מתמקדים בערבים, מיעוטים, מהגרים וקבוצות פגיעות נוספות המאמר הזה תופס מקום מיוחד עבורי כי זה בעצם המחקר הראשון שלי המתמקד באוכל' בינלאומית של מהגרים ואנשים שנעקרו מארצם

Imagine replacing media “war pundits” with peace experts. Every day we would hear ideas for peace, debate them, embrace disagreement, and start changing the narrative 🕊️

If you have students from the Middle East, reach out and check in. It matters

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In Health Policy, we propose an independent third-party institution to conduct rigorous, technology-enhanced monitoring of drug safety and effectiveness without relying on pharmaceutical companies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Addressing the challenge of post-approval regulation of pharmaceuticals: The case for independent third-party evaluations sciencedirect.com/science/articl… via @ibavli et al

An independent body to evaluate drugs after approval 👇

For similar pieces on the causes, impacts, prevention, and ethics of public health errors, check out my Substack itaibavli.substack.com

British Columbia has ended its drug decriminalization pilot. 1. Was it a public health mistake? 2. What evidence led authorities to reverse the policy? I explore these questions in my latest post in When Public Health Goes Wrong. open.substack.com/pub/itaibavli/…

My latest in When Public Health Goes Wrong itaibavli.substack.com/p/the-end-of-d…