Jason Lerner

Social workers are uniquely positioned to address social determinants of health in family and community settings... At their best, social workers operate as boundary spanners, reducing health disparities by helping vulnerable or marginalized individuals, families, and communities

@StatBoy_Steven It’s 8am. Are people seriously that put out by this? I’m looking forward to a great hockey game when I’d normally be watching Premier League

Germany played the Olympic Athletes from Russia in the gold medal game in 2018, and had to wake up at 5 AM to watch. Nobody was crying about it then. Just set your alarm and wake up one time in 4 years to watch your team play and stop crying about it.

@CoachDanGo Great except for all of the PFAS in Topo Chico water…

This is one of my favorite drinks on the planet. I call it The Sober Margarita. It’s sparkling water, lime juice, and sea salt lining the brim of the glass. The sparkling water keeps you full and aids digestion. The lime juice supports your liver. The sea salt restores your electrolytes. It’s healthy, has 3 ingredients, zero alcohol, and tastes delicious.

Join our next "Building SAFE+JUST Communities" webinar, where @UChiUrbanLabs Health Lab Director Dr. Rebecca Neusteter & Prog. Dir. @jd_lerner share findings about CARE-Chicago's 1st alternative crisis response program. 1/28 at Noon CST. Register ⬇️ shorturl.at/Xtx5i

@haroldpollack @UChicago Much deserved. I look forward to all the big grant bucks this brings in. In all seriousness, huge congratulations!

I’m grateful to be named a distinguished service professor here at @UChicago. I hope I can say ten years from now that I’ve earned the title and was able to pay it forward. A quick note. (1/n)

@haroldpollack @mattyglesias They probably wished they had once I got there.

@jd_lerner @mattyglesias Hmm. I had always assumed they had hit you with an additional surcharge...

Columbia University charges students $27,822 (plus various fees) per semester for a two-year program leading to a master’s of social work degree.

@haroldpollack @mattyglesias Mine cost sticker price

@mattyglesias What is the average tuition net of financial aid and other awards?

Ecstatic to share that our #multidisciplinary #research team, led by Drs Neusteter & Pollack from @UChicago Health Lab, received $500,000 #grant from @OJPNIJ to study 911 call coding by #dispatchers! 🥳 A project we hope will bring scholarly & operational benefit to field! ☎️

@cblatts Sorry for your loss, Chris. May your father’s memory be a blessing.

We lost my dad Jim to heart and lung disease this week, at 73. Young, but he was a model of how to live life. I've spent my career city to city every few years. He and my mom did the same, until 1984 when they finally settled in Ottawa with their three boys. They built a community here, and touched so many people it's hard to count. We're not sure we'll find a large enough place to fit them all. Dad grew up in Montreal. He finished secondary school early—I think it was 16—and started college younger than everyone else. He always kept the details suspiciously hazy (it sounds like there was a lot of poker playing involved) but whatever transpired, he decided to drop out his first year. Dad always loved cars and mechanics and driving, and so he ran off to become the crew chief for a race car driver, traveling around North America on the Formula Atlantic circuit. But dad had a girlfriend at home, a nurse in training. They'd met working as bank tellers. One day her father got on the phone and told my dad to come home and marry her or get lost. So he quit racing, came back to the Royal Bank of Canada and to Montreal. He and my mom Rita spent the next 51 years together. They bounced around from little bank branch to branch in small towns ands cities across eastern Ontario until they finally landed in Ottawa. That became home. Over the next 20 years he built one of the most successful technology banking practices in Canada—to his surprise most of all. It all started when he met a handful of guys starting telecom companies. One tiny little startup was called Newbridge, another Mitel, and later another called Corel. They ended up becoming some of the largest telecom and tech companies in the world. But despite his success, dad was never really a career man. I cannot remember a time he wasn't home by 5pm to be with his family. And even if the business he built was important, the most legendary thing he and my mom built was a community. He and my mom touched so many people it is overwhelming. My brothers and I have spent half the week figuring out how to manage the sheer number of people that want to stop by, come to a service, and send a note. It's humbling and inspiring. Even though he died too soon, he had a great run. He retired at 55 and he and my mom traveled, golfed, and spent time with their grandkids. A lifetime musician, he started a rock band with his friends and played gigs around Ottawa. He even returned to car racing, in a way, by teaching high-performance driving at a race track nearby. And he drank a lot of red wine. He will be missed by friends and family, but also by the vintners of California. We love you pops.

My new op-ed with the illustrious ⁦@haroldpollack⁩ in the Chicago Tribune today: Here’s why Chicago needs a Mayor’s Office for Medicaid chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…

Don't miss this important piece by @haroldpollack and @jd_lerner. This would be a great model far beyond Chicago. Op-ed: Here’s why Chicago needs a Mayor’s Office for Medicaid chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…

Please join us for an amazing panel focused on the important work of responders within our crisis response systems! Thanks to @policingproject and @CICSGeorgetown for bringing us all together!

🚨In collaboration with @CICSGeorgetown, we are hosting our next #ReimaginingPublicSafety webinar on March 22 @ 1pm ET! Featuring: Evan Douglas, Chyna Quarker, @DanielRGerard, Jasmine Desiderio & @jd_lerner. Register here: safetyreimagined.org/community-of-p…

@jenniferdoleac Congrats, Jen!

Some news: I’m delighted and honored to announce that I’ll join Arnold Ventures this July, as their new Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice.

@haroldpollack Good thing these folks didn’t see the state of our hair on Zoom this week

More folk examining the data and reporting that I am a homely, eccentric professor-dude. Just the kind of breaking news I seek on this platform. (Swamped with similar today.)

@haroldpollack I'll try not to take that personally...

Gosh--it is just hell to be on zoom all day long, with double-booking issues for maybe 25% of all meetings.

@haroldpollack I think of it more as frustration than anger

I try not to write in anger. Maybe B+. As a health policy+public health community, we've spent decades noting importance of social determinants. Yet we fail ito recognize, embrace+reward the profession+practice of social work, whose core mission is to address these determinants.

Join us in New Orleans or online for our next convening and launch of the #Transform911 blueprint to improve America's emergency response system!

So great to hang with @haroldpollack in the @UChiUrbanLabs office today! Looking forward to next time.

911 public safety telecommunicators are still classified as administrative support, despite being essential to 911. They have a tough job and deserve recognition and support – @BLS let’s reclassify! #NPSTW #NPSTW2022