Melissa Garrido

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The order strips the basic rights of people who are homeless, people with mental health disabilities, and people who have substance use disorders & further stigmatizes mental health disabilities and homelessness. In essence, [it] makes communities less safe. www.americanprogress.org/press/statem...

Just used @statacorp.bsky.social 's -reshape- function without receiving an error message... I'll take the win, as small as it may be

Agenda with PEPReC presentations 3:30-5 on 6/23, 8:30 and 5 on 6/24, and 10:15 on 6/25

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Agenda with PEPReC presentations 3:30-5 on 6/23, 8:30 and 5 on 6/24, and 10:15 on 6/25

Going to Nashville for #ASHEcon2025 ? Come see my colleagues present work on capacity, productivity, and access in the VA health care system

see also: the widely accepted "gravity theory" of things falling down

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

More PEPReC #arm25 presentations today!

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

If you’re in Minneapolis for @academyhealth.bsky.social ‘s #arm25, come see PEPReC presentations on methods, the health care workforce, and more

Grant Cancellation Web Form WAS YOUR GRANT CANCELED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP? The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s cancelation of federal research awards. If your award was terminated since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. If you had multiple awards terminated, please fill out a separate form for each award. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you to leave your contact information if you are open to having a confidential conversation with Committee staff. Please find our confidentiality policies at the following link – any information you share will be treated with these protections, regardless of your current affiliation with any current or former funding agency: https://democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whistleblower

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration?

Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪

forms.office.com/pages/respon...

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

Research to Advanced Racial and Indigenous Health Equity We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project?

RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️

More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

I was denied permission to host a roundtable at the Puget Sound VA to hear from women veterans about their health care.

I have NEVER been outright denied from having open & honest conversations with VA—until this administration.

I'm demanding an answer from VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Great to see this

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

Congratulations!!

An idea I’ll float here while I figure out how to operationalize:

RFK Jr.'s HHS just dismantled a center focused on efficiency The firing of all staff at the Center for Policy and Evaluation makes no sense as a cost-cutting measure.

All of the Administration for Community Living's Center for Policy and Evaluation staff were laid off. For @motherjones.com, I talked to its former heard and an employee terminated today on the irony of getting rid of a department that focuses on efficiency....

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How are MA plans recruiting a veterans that get most of their care paid by VA and not by MA?

1. Make it cheap to enroll (offer $0 premiums & cash backs)

2. Offer no Part D drug coverage (rare for MA)

Our new #JAMAHealthForum study led by PhD student Allie Dorneo

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Jack Russell Terrier sleeping with her head on her paw on a cuddly blanket

RFK Jr. moves to close Administration for Community Living The shutdown will mean "more people forced into institutional settings."

The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of continued funding for the intramural research program in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Viewpoint from former VA employees, including former Veterans Health Administration Undersecretary for Health and former director of the Health Services Research program

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

For a @motherjones.com story, I am looking to speak to a veteran whose healthcare was interrupted as a result of VA firings/people being put on administrative leave. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.