Kaya Van Roost

w/ Alissa Koski and @FraidyReiss

Out now! From 2000-2019, 200,643 children were married across 41 states and DC. Rates of child marriage have declined steeply since the year 2000, but child marriage continues to happen in states where it remains legal. authors.elsevier.com/c/1iBcVX18YVgzj

Patterns in the US mirror those seen across the globe: >75% of those who married as children were girls in every state. Girls married men who were an avg. of 4 years older than them, while boys married women who were an avg. of 1.3 years older.

Some thoughts, clarifications, and context on my new article with @PLOSGPH. The first piece in a series on what global health is and what it means to change it, I trace how Global Health is "capturing" and depoliticizing the idea of decolonization 1/ #ack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

🧵Pleased to share my final publication from my MSc, now published in @CMIJournal: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between male circumcision and HPV infections in males and their female sexual partners. @McGill_DCE @ESCMID (1/) authors.elsevier.com/a/1gywo,RGPgSB…

I’m very excited to share that this paper is now out in the world. Our results highlight the blurred legal and conceptual boundaries between child marriage and sexual violence in the U.S. With @mirandalili18 and Alissa Koski in @JAdolesHealth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Joan Didion…was an answer to the recession of poise and intellect from our lives. Polish, exactitude, remove: of these she made an atelier. Novelty and anomaly, too, were at her disposal, never far off. She was the West’s reluctant First Lady, armed with charm and bizarre acuity

“Individualism couldn’t beat Delta, it won’t beat Omicron, and it won’t beat the rest of the Greek alphabet to come. Self-interest is self-defeating, and as long as its hosts ignore that lesson, the virus will keep teaching it.”

🚨I wrote about public health’s history; why it spent the 20thC moving away from broad coalitions, political advocacy, and a crusading spirit that actively pushed for social reforms; and why it must regain those things to be relevant and effective. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Good morning! It’s a good day for a march! Please join us. For those who can’t, it will be live streamed. The link fb.me/e/1jqOhc4j8 goes live at 1:00pm Please share!

This article is necessary and extraordinary and all white folks working in health equity should read it. Immediately. Big gratitude to the truth telling of colleagues like @mclemoremr @RRHDr @RheaBoydMD and others. statnews.com/2021/09/23/hea… via @statnews

Such a good read. Lucky to be learning from Dr. Kaufman this semester

No one: Me: Public health text books as Met Gala Dresses.

Mcgill's refusal to mandate vaccines is emblematic of a double standard that excuses vaccine hesitancy but stigmatizes disability They require significant & intrusive "proof" of disability to obtain the minimal academic accommodations But proof of vaccination is too invasive?

1/ Vaccine safety: We compared excess adverse events after #COVID19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech) and after documented #SARSCoV2 infection. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Take-home message: Low excess risk of adverse events after vaccination, higher after infection. Some thoughts👇

@iruizdelaorden @BeansTheFilm <3 <3 <3

The answer is six times. Six times higher. Has this ever even been a headline once?

Today is the day! Come show your support for these lives lost💔 ⁦@ElleCanada⁩ has afforded me the opportunity to use their Instagram platform, so check it out🙏. Please find a way to support this event. In solidarity ✊🏽

Demand Justice for the 751 children! Bring your drums!! Mtl Gathering and March Thursday, July 1st, 2pm Jeanne-Mance Park (Parc & Rachel) We will march to Place du Canada (René-Lévesque & Peel) please share widely svp partagez dans vos réseaux) (fb: facebook.com/events/8827926…)