Sera L. Young

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🎉 Congrats to the co-authors on implementing WISE Scales in Panama for the first time! Kudos to Jael Alfonso (UDELAS), Hugo Melgar Quinonez (McGill), Olga García (UAQ), Alex Brito (U. San Sebastián) & Israel Rios-Castillo (FAO). Exciting work! 📊🇵🇦

Congrats to WISE-LAC member Rafael Perez-Escamilla and team on their paper about water insecurity among Pilagá people in northern Argentina. Builds on earlier work by Ianina Tuñón! American Society for Nutrition | Current Developments in Nutrition

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Kudos to Joseph Toland, Anchal Bansal, Andrew Whelton, Clayton Wukich, Sybil Derrible & Lauryn Spearing for using #WISE_Scales to study East Palestine, OH disaster. 31% water insecure vs <4% US avg—key insights for post-disaster response in high-income settings. 🔬💧

A landmark moment for @plos.org, our first in-person Board Meeting! So much to love about The Water Institute at UNC, including the presence of both Academic and Section Editors. Guillaume Wright and I were pleased to welcome present Editors, future Editors, and friends-of-PLOS-Water.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

🌋 New research on Tonga's 2022 eruption: Concurrent water & food insecurity = highest mental distress (vs. one or neither). Impact similar for men & women, 4-5 months post-ash contamination. #PublicHealth #MentalHealth #Tonga

🌋 New research: Are water & food insecurity linked with mental distress among men & women after a natural disaster? A paper by IMMANA Fellow @indirabose.bsky.social explores this using the 2022 volcanic eruption data in Tonga 🇹🇴.

📄Read here bit.ly/3ITOwha

Where are the people who were so outraged that Biden asked google to pull misinfo at Covid, now that Trump has made Apple pull the ice tracker app

Sera Young joins PLOS Water as co-Editor-in-Chief - Latitude We are delighted to welcome Professor Sera Young to PLOS Water as co-Editor-in-Chief! Sera is a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University…

🌊 🪩 It brings me great pleasure to announce that yesterday I started as co-Editor-in-Chief at @plos.org Water! 🌊 🪩

A bit about my vision for the journal here: latitude.plos.org/2025/10/sera...

Please reach out with ideas, suggestions, & even (esp?) constructive criticism. 🧡 💛 💚 🩵 💙 💜 ❤️‍🩹 More soon!

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Community-Driven Solutions in Global Health with Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD, a pioneering anthropologist and public health leader, discusses his community-driven solutions to global health challenges in Kenya and beyond. He shares how local action an...

🎙️Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD, a pioneering anthropologist and public health leader, discusses his community-driven solutions to global health challenges in Kenya and beyond in the new episode of our #ExploreGlobalHealthPodcast.

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Thrilled to share that IMPACT Initiatives is implementing the 💧 Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales in 12 countries facing humanitarian crises! HWISE-4 data will help calculate People in Need, enabling more efficient aid response in places like CAR 🇨🇫, DRC 🇨🇩, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Haiti 🇭🇹 and Ukraine 🇺🇦

Living the Global Water Crisis: How the World Experiences Water Insecurity As the world grapples with water security challenges exacerbated by climate change, demographic change, and conflict, tools like the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales help quantify the human ...

See the IWISE Data in this feature by @foodwater.csis.org here: www.csis.org/analysis/liv...

Heartbreaking but not surprising headline from @nytimes.com today. Back in 2020, Afghanistan was amongst the most water insecure countries in the @gallup.com World Poll. My thanks to @indirabose.bsky.social for flagging this story.

UNESCO.org, @wfp.org, @UNICEF.org, @charitywater.bsky.social, @helvetas-ch.bsky.social & Oxfam.

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📢 Join us this Sunday (Aug 23) at @SIWI_water World Water Week! Our session on "Advancing Water Security in Africa Using Experiential (WISE) Data" features success stories from Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mali & Sierra Leone!
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Key findings: 1. Water insecurity increases depression risk. 2. Food insecurity impacts depression more than water insecurity. 3. Combined food and water insecurity heightens depression risk. 4. These effects are consistent across genders.

Thanks to co-authors Hilary Bethancourt, Teresa Shamah-Levy, Verónica Mundo Rosas, Alicia Muñoz Espinosa, Talia Ginsberg, Suneetha Kadiyala, Edward Frongillo, and Pablo Gaitán Rossi, and funders.

Congratulations to Indira Bose for leading analyses on the link between food and water insecurity in Mexico and mental health. This research was made possible by Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública's data collection over 4 years.

The utility of experiential water insecurity measures for monitoring and evaluating WASH programs: Case studies from Nepal and Sierra Leone Progress toward safe water for all is predominantly tracked using directly observable, resource-based indicators, including primary water source and water collection travel time. There is growing…

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What I love about this new WISE Scales paper in PLOS Water is how PRACTICAL it is! Organizations like Helvetas and Oxfam successfully used these scales in Nepal and Sierra Leone to measure the human impact of water interventions. We need more tools that capture effects on people's daily lives!

We are thrilled to share the latest newsletter from the WISE-LAC Network, marking two incredible years of collaborative research and action to improve water security across Latin America and the Caribbean! 🥂 🎂
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How much salt is OK in drinking water? Without limits, Australia’s health gap widens in remote and regional areas Two litres of tap water in the regional New South Wales town of Walgett has as much sodium as an entire large bag of sea salt popcorn.

Read it in @aunz.theconversation.com : theconversation.com/how-much-sal...

Even low sodium levels in drinking water can be harmful. However, our review of 197 countries' guidelines, led by Juliette Crowther & Jacqui Webster, found most are based on taste, not health. This change needs to be pushed! (Yes, that's a Salt-N-Pepa reference!) #waterinsecurity

Write Before Midnight - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Write Before Midnight A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in ...

Hey, fiction writers: We're having a short story contest, and the wonderful Kim Stanley Robinson is the judge. The stories need to have some conceivable connection to (avoiding) the Apocalypse. thebulletin.org/write-before...

We received the "Champions of Health" Award from @inspmx.bsky.social. It honors hundreds of researchers and partners who've made #WISEScales successful across 80+ countries. Thank you to all contributors and funders for highlighting water insecurity challenges.

Investigating the suitability of dichotomous responses for the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales using nationally representative data from 39 countries The Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales have been validated to comparably measure water insecurity globally. The scales consist of 12 items that can be administered in approximately 3 minutes. ...

📊 New study validates simplified yes/no responses for WISE Scales - making water insecurity measurement even faster! Same accuracy, half the options. Big win for global water security research! 💧

Read it here, in @plos.org :
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