Another 31 Days of Health Equity!
It’s been a while since I wrote one of these summaries. Chalk it up to new projects, new opportunities, and a lack of time to simply sit down and do… Read More
Category: social media analysis
What’s going on in Health Equity?
Our analysis of the recent trends in academic articles, news articles and tweets.
Social Media Recap of APHA 2021
At this year’s American Public Health Association conference, we tracked the event’s tweets and found some interesting trends. Here are our findings!
This post will save you $1200 USD (or, why virtual conferences have been so disappointing).
Yes, this post will save you $1,200! That’s $1,200 in the cost of registration and the cost of your time that you don’t have to spend! Before I get into… Read More
The Month in Suicide Research (and Reporting)
For those of us who straddle between research and practice, it may not be enough to keep abreast of the scientific literature. It’s important, of course–PubTrawlr was founded on that… Read More
Climate, COVID, Abortion: the month in health equity
Cutting-edge health equity research doesn’t just happen in scientific journals. There’s a vibrant community of practitioners, advocates, and community members with lived experience working towards better health and wellbeing for… Read More
Reddit, Twitter, and more: August in Suicide Research
For August, we went a little deeper in the whole “discourse space” on suicide. In addition to the scan of the published academic literature and Twitter trends, we also pulled… Read More
The hidden (and not so hidden) messages your congressional representative is communicating.
There are plenty of good ideas about how to solve complex social problems. One of the major levers is policy. And the people responsible for brokering between local needs and… Read More
The Core Competencies: The Week in #impsci
Let’s go Socratic for a second. What does it mean to be an implementation practitioner? By that, if you were a person who was interested in getting good ideas into… Read More
Implementation Science is not cross-disciplinary. The week in #impsci Twitter
What does recent Twitter say about implementation science? Well, one common thread was that Implementation Practice includes enabling relationship-building, developing a common language, defining roles, and dedicating resources. That was… Read More
A very small sample of Olympic Tweets
I’m an Olympic junkie. Let the record show that the great and legendary Villanova Track and Field team has had an Olympian every cycle since 1948! Let’s go, Pat Tiernan!… Read More
The week in #healthequity
A key aspect of community-based work is participation. People on the ground, such as community members, service recipients, and those providing services, should have a say in the types of… Read More