Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS รีทวีตแล้ว
Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS
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Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS
@tookatooth
🦷 Oral Health Equity Advocate | @uicpublichealth DrPH candidate @JohnsHopkinsSPH & @UCDavis_PHSEDU alumna | 🦁Iranian she/her (opinions are my own)
เข้าร่วม Haziran 2019
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When my nephew explains what “incendio” and “stupefy” mean
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In case anyone was wondering why affirmative action is important....
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@Censor__This @APHAOralHealth The study in question was a meta analysis that looked at all studies that looked at optimal fluoridation levels (average 1ppm) and found no effect of optimal fluoride on IQ.
If you claim he “excluded” studies it is because those studies had too high of fluoride for CWF.
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@APHAOralHealth Jayanth V. Kumar must Hate Americans, and American children - evidence came out this year showing he covered up evidence that there is NO safe dose of Flouride, and any dose lowers kids IQs 🤯
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Anthony Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse@athompsonprsme1
A team of pro-fluoride researchers led by California’s dental director intentionally omitted data from a study seeking to undermine the forthcoming National Toxicology Program (NTP) report linking fluoride exposure to neurodevelopmental damage in Children. childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/resea…
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🎉🎉🎉 Celebrating the American Public Health Association’s Oral Health Section 2021 John W. Knutson Distinguished Service Award in Dental Public Health recipient: Jayanth V. Kumar, DDS, MPH #APHA2021
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Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS รีทวีตแล้ว
The fact that there are multiple candidates for what this linear regression is blows my mind 🤯
(Original, of course: xkcd.com/2347/)
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Brace yourself for this AI-generated image of a child having a dental check-up... #AI #AIgenerated
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Love seeing all the great research my dental colleagues are posting at the International Association for Dental Research Convention! International oral health connections are outstanding 👏🏽
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Ask: What's a way to say "must do" without using "required" or "mandated"...
Me: "Lady MacBeth'd"
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Juneteenth doesn’t celebrate the end of slavery when its now transformed into the prison-industrial complex with disproportionate mass incarceration of Black people
It celebrates a start of change and honors the steadfast justice-work and continued fight for freedom
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Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS รีทวีตแล้ว
A very strong, evidence-based position statement on CWF. Well done! #prevention #publichealth
Prof Sarah Baker@sarahRbakerDPH
New position statement on water fluoridation "BASCD strongly supports community water fluoridation as a safe, equitable & effective intervention, which should be implemented on a universal basis to reduce prevalence & severity of tooth decay & reduce oral health inequalities" 👏
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Nobody wants to transform medical care more than the people working within it
Tatiana Prowell, MD@tmprowell
When a doctor tries to get an appt for a family member in the hospital where they practice & spends 36 mins on the phone only to hear the next available appt is in 2024…this system is broken. #MedTwitter
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Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS รีทวีตแล้ว
I had a medical student shadow me all day in oncology clinic and, when I asked them at the end what surprised them the most, they paused to reflect & then said “the hope”
GIF
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I acknowledged the music of Queen in my article submission and peer reviewers asked for me to remove it for professionalism… what about Fat Bottomed Girls isn’t professional?!
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@bednarsh_helene @OSAPtweets You’re amazing! Always learning and educating 👏🏽
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Just got my Certificate of Attendance! scq.io/tzJQNF3 via @OSAPtweets
Great opportunity to increase knowledge and be with long time friends and colleagues. If you weren't able to attend you can access recorded sessions at osap.org
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How will you treat yourself? @PublicHealth is coming to Atlanta November 2023
The Oral Health section will be there and collabs with APHA Nutrition and @ih_section
instagram.com/reel/CtSSicqpt…
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@SujayAMehta Yes it is! The history of politics influencing health systems and the persistent inequities from them are so well researched in this book.
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@tookatooth Is this the book by Daniel Dawes? This part from National Academies of Science on organizational rules coming out of past histories - including racist histories - hit me hard - like a bit of an “aha” moment.
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The Political Determinants of Health and the role of health policy- in a society where discrimination is institutionalized, health equity will not be achieved without policy change.
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