Derek Richardson

To my friends here at IU, come to the IMU for the Irsay Research Symposium!! Lots of great talks are scheduled, and you can stop by my poster and hear about my dissertation research 🤓 @irsay-iu.bsky.social

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.

"I don't like the idea of rural populations being treated as guinea pigs," she said. "If this is where we're testing AI in health care, there's a lot that could go wrong."

I can't say I'm optimistic either...
www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...

Navigating “Wicked” Disagreement in Public Health | AJPH | Vol. Issue Public health has long grappled with moral and epistemic disagreement—conflicts over values and facts that shape decisions about how best to protect population health. While these forms of disagreemen...

Navigating “Wicked” Disagreement in Public Health - By Safura Abdool Karim, Ruth Faden, Anne Barnhill, Virginia Brown, Jeff Kahn, Nancy Kass, Anna Mastroianni, Stephanie Morain, Vardit Ravitsky, and Reed Tuckson | AJPH ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

USAID Closure Makes Way for an “Asian” Development Imaginary - Association for Asian Studies By Mary-Collier Wilks In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would reduce foreign aid spending. By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially s...

“Within this new order, Cambodians are strategically cultivating new donors to create innovative aid projects as well as trajectories for themselves and their nation. And, as they do so, they play an essential role in imagining new paths to development.”
www.asianstudies.org/usaid-closur...

SO! PROUD! 🥹🥹🙌🏼🙌🏼💯💯

HOW HISTORY IS WRITTEN The Boston Massacre, January 6th, and Renee Good

His piece: robrankin.substack.com/p/how-histor...

Minnesota shows what happens when governing and content creation merge As President Trump approaches one year back in office, the policies his administration pursues — and how those policies are communicated — have been increasingly shaped by social media.

Ugh. @robrankin.bsky.social was on the nose when he wrote, "The lie is no longer a denial of evidence but an instruction to distrust perception itself."
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...

Excited to have been interviewed about my book for the Feminist Development Newsletter and looking forward to seeing everyone at the #SocDev Conference in February!

We find that “coalitions” have more racial diversity (but not more gender diversity) than CSOs with other membership structures. Our findings provisionally suggest that coalitions form the diversity layer of civil society and could help bridge societal divides.

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Thankful that our new article is available online in NVSQ! We (@matthewbaggetta.bsky.social @bradrfulton.bsky.social @renzorivaaguero.bsky.social) test US civil society orgs’ ability to convene diverse members, thereby forming a “diversity layer” of civil society
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians? Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Funding Uncertainty Is Hurting U.S. Health Research 'The R&D ecosystem itself is fragile because uncertainty is a killer,' said one policy expert

Funding Uncertainty Is Hurting US Health Research — "The R&D ecosystem itself is fragile because uncertainty is a killer," said one policy expert. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

#nonprofitresearch #philanthropy #socialimpact #equityinfunding #iuresearch #leadership | Observing Civic Engagement Lab 🎉 Big congratulations to Brad R. Fulton from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington! Brad was the recipient of the 2025 RGK‑ARNOVA President’s Award!...

Dr. Brad Fulton, one of OCE’s lab directors, was recently recognized for his research on philanthropy and racism. Congratulations, Dr. Fulton!
www.linkedin.com/posts/observ...

Me: *tries to drive to campus*
*immediately spins out and hits a curb*
After two winters in Cambodia, this is gonna be brutal…

“We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed ‘public man-made death’”

🤦🏻‍♂️😔😔😔

Indiana University facing lawsuit after claims it tried to censor student newspaper Indiana University's student newspaper is at the center of a lawsuit by its former advisor who says he was fired by the administration because he stood up against censorship.

NPR has aired a story about turmoil regarding Indiana University's treatment of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, and the lawsuit its adult advisor filed after the school fired him. The story on preserving free speech for student journalists spreads. https://loom.ly/Q_eRgcg

Just me, talking about my dissertation to anyone who will listen 😅 (and enjoying the fall foliage 🍂)

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU has now fully cut IDS print. What more is there to say? The decision came hours after IU terminated Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush.

As someone who worked on student newspapers for 8+ years, I'm appalled at how IU is treating workers at the IDS. Shoutout to these students for standing up for free speech. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Future of Foreign Aid Speaker Series | Center on Global Poverty

Later this month, I'll be giving a virtual talk on my forthcoming book, "Reimagining Aid" for the Hopkin's Center for Global Poverty's Future of Foreign Aid Series. Zoom link on the website below!

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/future-o...

Big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday and provided feedback!

Bedside Manners, by Rachel Pearson Can empathy be taught in medicine?

“As a medical humanist, I reject the shallow and brittle terms on which empathy is so often taught in medicine.”

Rachel Pearson (@peopledoctor.bsky.social) on the place of empathy in medical education.

Spoiler: transnational organizational settings create ambiguous working conditions for healthcare professionals. In their efforts to negotiate order, interacting professionals find ways to reconfigure work roles and role relationships in ways that disrupt professional status hierarchies in medicine.

Excited to be working on my book talks schedule!

It's that time of year again-- submit to the ESS mini-conference on Health Professions Education! This year's theme is "Transforming and Repairing Health Professions Education." Deadline to submit is October 15: ess2026.exordo.com/login. See more info below 👇

I am glad to see this article in print! Here, we build a bridge between institutional theory and the theory of racialized organizations to draw attention to how social interactions provide a dynamic view of racialization in and by organizations. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It - Studies in Comparative International Development Studies in Comparative International Development -

Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It

Reya Farber, @renusingh.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social, @aliciay.bsky.social & team

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Medical Sociology section of ASA has a new account up & running so we can bring you live coverage of #ASA2025! Please follow and share! @asamedsoc.bsky.social

"As social scientists with decades of experience working in the field of global health and development, we deplore the recent decision by the Trump Administration to dismantle key US aid programs. This abrupt withdrawal threatens to exacerbate existing humanitarian crises and undercut the potential of future reforms. And while the international aid system is much larger than the contributions of any single country, the contributions of the US government to international development have been incredibly significant in terms of both monetary value and impact. The US has provided the largest single contribution of any country to foreign aid and investments for decades (Herre and Arrigada 2024; OECD 2025). The recent decisions made by the Trump Administration regarding US foreign assistance are an abdication of responsibility that has taken place without careful deliberation, due process, or transparency — and are already costing lives around the world, undermining in a matter of weeks sensitive development partnerships and trust that have taken years to create."

New commentary piece in Studies of Comparative International Development with social science colleagues who study global health and international development:

"Reimagine Aid, Don’t Destroy It"

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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