Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD

This is called policy-based evidence making (the antipode of evidence-based policymaking, a thing we should all want)

Undercounted: The hidden deaths in America’s jails : Here & Now Anytime Over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, about 1,000 people died annually in U.S. jails. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal data by...

You can listen to my recent interview with WBUR's Here & Now:
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

I'm of the view that, when @adamprz.bsky.social writes about democracy, we should pay a lot of attention... adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/musings-1

West Africans deported by US to Ghana dumped in Togo without papers West Africans deported by the United States to Ghana are now fending for themselves in Togo after being dumped in the country without documents, lawyers and deportees have told AFP.

Last week, I and others reported 5+ ICE flights had landed in Ghana since it began taking third-country nationals on Sept. 5.

Now eNCA confirms at least one of those flights held Liberian, Nigerian and Togolese nationals, who were driven to Togo and dumped w/o papers. www.enca.com/news/west-af...

Okay One Battle After Another lives up to the hype

Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs - Unitaid

We all need some good news

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

“The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027”

@unitaid.bsky.social CHAI Wits RHI

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Finishing Stacy Abrams' latest novel now which delves into these exact issues:

Wow, literally pocketing fees from prisoners. That's dark.

W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is why @mskellymhayes.bsky.social was right when she said it’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. I can do what I want, but when you do it to me it’s illegal, because I’m above critique and above the law.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

At Dauphin County Prison, a new healthcare provider is in and troubled PrimeCare is out The commissioners approved a contract with a new company in a 2-1 vote Wednesday.

It’s now officially official. PrimeCare is out at Dauphin County Prison after years of allegations of medical neglect and conflicts of interest.
Mediko will take over on October 1.
This is big!

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/09...

The Women’s Refugee Commission Detention Pregnancy Tracker: A Critical Tool for Documenting the Treatment of Pregnant Women in Immigration Detention 🚨 Have you seen a pregnant woman in ICE custody? Submit a report today.

The Women’s Refugee Commission Detention Pregnancy Tracker: A Critical Tool for Documenting the Treatment of Pregnant Women in Immigration Detention

🚨 Have you seen a pregnant woman in ICE custody? Submit a report today. -- Please share widely!

austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-womens...

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

"Young ordered the restoration of $783 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2025 — a portion of which, totaling millions, was allocated to Harvard — before the Supreme Court stayed the order nearly two months later. (The total multi-year funding pool affected by Young’s ruling included $3.8 billion in grants, many of which were partially paid out before the freeze. According to a Crimson analysis of court filings, Harvard was awarded more than 140 grants within that pool, with a combined multi-year value exceeding $60 million.) Harvard expected the grants listed in Young’s ruling to flow back to researchers, according to a person familiar with the matter, even though the White House had imposed a block on all Harvard grants as part of its initial funding cut in April. But the funds never arrived, and Harvard wrote in an August press release from the School of Public Health that the NIH was continuing to “block disbursement of any funds to Harvard University.” According to one person, Harvard has been unable to access any funds from the NIH since April because of the restrictions imposed by DOGE through its oversight of the NIH’s payment system, including in the two-month period in which Young’s ruling mandated that grant awards listed in the ruling be resumed."

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Population Health | NEJM Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.

1/ #Policies shape our #health.

But why?

We usually think it has to do with how policies change material resources (e.g., access to food, health care, etc) and opportunities.

In @nejm.org, we argue that policies can also affect health by shaping social #narratives.

www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This is pure Willie Hortonism.

The message is this: as long as there is just one bad weekend, or one bad event, crime cannot be “down” and we cannot be “safe.”

We are only “safe” based on impossible standards, and we can never get “safer” as long as some risk exists.

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

Now that we're experiencing life under authoritarianism in the US, I'm struck by how it's a lot like living in a high-crime environment. (I grew up in Rio de Janeiro.) 1/

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

Hands down the most terrifying description of imperial boomerang I've heard articulated

Excellent work @madhupai.bsky.social! Thank you for this important piece!

From the white supremacist book the official DHS account is referencing: "The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world, operating freely across every nation’s frontiers, and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all."

Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

the answer to “why are institutions folding to trump in spite of his weaknesses” is partly that some of the people leading them like having their worst instincts indulged. but its also worth pointing out that many people simply are mercenary

Congratulations!