Stephanie Chamberlin

My mom was fired after 20 years of service to the federal government, right before retirement.

Thanks for this thread. I was about to craft a similar response, but saw you covered it more clearly and thoroughly than I would have!

I keep seeing this and other news stories about lenacapavir going viral, so, respectfully...
The approval of lenacapavir PrEP, standing alone, absolutely will NOT bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We have highly effective HIV preventive meds for over a decade now, and yet the epidemic continues.

Ironically that should have been ‘hire’ not higher. But it makes my point 😂

Don’t over complicate it! Write first, perfect later. Higher an editor.

The questions and findings in this research have been central to my current and future research agenda: Understanding how and why formal education does or does not support chronic care management in diverse settings globally.

🎉 This research comes from a qualitative study I led in Malawi in 2017 using in-depth interviews, and was part of my mixed methods dissertation. I am so excited to share this work!

A huge thank you to my co-authors: Misheck Mphande, Khumbo Phiri, Pericles Kalande, and Kathryn Dovel!

Figure 2 summarizes what we actually found in the interviews.

✅ That big box in Figure 2 represents factors that suggest that chronic HIV care will not be strongly related to having more formal schooling.

Figure 1 is a summary of what we initially thought these in-depths would show about how education supports HIV care.

This confirmed the statistical findings!

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😯 As we dug deeper into the in-depth interviews, the findings were not what we expected…Contextual realities—nature of the health care system, lack of employment opportunities, social support systems from friends and family, etc—made people’s formal education less important for their HIV care.

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❓ We wanted to understand why education does not positively influence chronic HIV care management in the context of eastern and southern Africa.

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❓ In the beginning, we were curious to learn how individuals’ formal education fit into the ways they managed their HIV care. At the same time, I conducted statistical analyses and found no relationship between formal education & HIV treatment adherences [see findings here: lnkd.in/geB2kciK].
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‘You don’t need schooling—just take the pills and don’t stop.’: Pathways between formal education and chronic HIV care in Malawi Research on chronic care management from other settings indicates that people’s formal education (e.g., primary, secondary, and tertiary schooling) ma…

❓ We often think more education = better health. But is that true for all health outcomes, in all settings? Maybe not…context matters!

✅ What does matter for HIV care is social support and literacy and numeracy skills--gained through schooling or elsewhere.

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More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades.
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And a huge thank you to my fantastic coauthors: Patrick Krueger and Leah Pauline!

Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful.

If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.

I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵

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Interestingly: knowledge that is more tied to going to a health clinic—like contraceptive methods—is also more influenced by individual education. But knowledge that is more tied to social norms/behaviors—like how HIV is transmitted and prevented—is more influenced by the education of the community.

In this study we sought to understand how formal schooling and learning from those around you might interact to help people gain more accurate information about contraceptive methods and HIV transmission knowledge.

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Interestingly: knowledge that is more closely tied to going to a health clinic—like contraceptive methods—is more influenced by individual education. But knowledge that is more tied to social norms/behaviors—like how HIV transmission—is more influenced by the education of the community.

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BUT…How did you first learn about contraception and HIV? I bet for many of you—regardless of your education—your answer is not school, but friends, family, or some form of media. This is social learning.

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Before my PhD, I spent my career in international development and public health thinking and hearing about education as an individual resource…leading to individual skills and opportunities…a concept often referred to as human capital.

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When you ask most people why education improves SRH outcomes, you are likely to hear something like “because the more educated know more”. Does more education lead to more SRH knowledge? In all contexts?

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Community and Individual Education Influences on Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge in Uganda: A Human Capital and Social Learning Perspective - Population Research and Policy Review Higher levels of both individual education and community education may facilitate improved sexual and reproductive health knowledge, but our understanding of this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa re...

New publication! The education of a community shapes how people gain sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, and this differs for men and women in Uganda.

Super excited to share this work that I started my first year in my PhD program!

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We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.

Solidarity! I think we are having the same bath time struggles! That one about the molecule sized planet, is a doozy! My favorite: What caused lightning to first start on earth?

A genuinely kind human, in addition to inspiring scholarship!

I know many academic journal editors here - who else is getting these letters?

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal