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The International Social Epidemiology Society presents: "The Future of Social Epidemiology: Where Next?" 27th May 2025 Join our virtual panel of esteemed international experts to discuss future social epidemiology research priorities Keynote Speakers: Anne Kavanagh, Ichiro Kawachi, Archana Singh-Manoux & K. Srinath Reddy. Register now at: bit.ly/ISESfuture

📢🎫We're excited to announce our society's inaugural symposium on May 27th, with the theme "The Future of Social Epidemiology: Where Next?"!

Keynote speakers include Anne Kavanagh, Ichiro Kawachi, Archana Singh-Manoux, and K. Srinath Reddy.

Don't miss this must-see event—register at the link below!

Title slide: Trust the process? (Causal) Mediation analysis

Decision flowchart "So you want to conduct a mediation analysis"

This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people.
And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)

Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

List of child welfare research grants marked for termination in mistaken HHS email An employee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent an email Wednesday that mistakenly included plans to terminate more than 150 research grants related to child and family well-being

More than 150 research grants related to child and family well-being are slated to be terminated.

Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

www.science.org/content/arti...

📢 Only 1 week left to apply for our inaugural awards recognizing outstanding doctoral students, postdocs, & early career researchers!

Don’t miss out—submit your application today!

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

The current and proposed GOP plan for NIH reform lists agencies and dollars.

Text might be tiny, but here's the existing 27 vs. the proposed 15 institutes that will be left standing.

You'll probably see a number of resignations, re-assignments, and the whole thing will be administered by political appointees who will oversee funding & policy.

A beige-colored graphic features a quote in dark brown serif font from Karestan Koenen, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology. The quote reads: “When people are dealing with threat, uncertainty, unpredictability, or something they can’t control, it can lead to psychological distress. But I know both from my own experience and from the research that if you can find meaning or purpose even within a difficult experience, it can help.” The professor’s name and title appear in bold and regular sans-serif font beneath the quote. The background includes subtle geometric patterns.

Karestan Koenen, Harvard Chan School professor of psychiatric epidemiology (@harvardepi.bsky.social) and an expert in stress and trauma, discusses the impact of the uncertainty roiling the public health field—and offers tips on how to cope.

Read the full Q&A: hsph.harvard.edu/news/coping-...

Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

Will American academics and students have the courage to protest the dismantling of university autonomy and #academicfreedom?

"Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests"

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March Trump policy blocking required notices has frozen reviews of thousands of grants

At least some meetings essential to approving new grants by the National Institutes of Health will be back on track later this month. scim.ag/41FbfEg

2025 Call for Applications for International Social Epidemiology Society Awards Link provided to https://www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for additional details of the call for applications

The I-SES is excited to announce our 2025 Call for Awards to recognize the exceptional work of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, & early career researchers in social epidemiology!

Please see the flyer below & go to www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for more details.

And please share widely!

#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky

A rare moment of good in this week's news.
When gov works with the people instead of against them, great things can be done. Thank you all for your support. Together is how we get through this. 🫶

Glad to see Health bucking the trend!

Dear dept head,

My accomplishments last week are:

1. I went to the doctor
2. I went to the mountains
3. I looked to the children
4. I drank from the fountains
5. There’s more than one answer to these questions

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

helpful thread...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Uh, want to know “the root causes of why Americans are getting sick” ? It’s a word that’s now verboten: INEQUALITY.

But that’s not the research they’re going fund. It will be individual blame/“lifestyles,” ivermectin, jade orbs, and raw milk. Oh, and magical thinking.

Sharing this in case anyone has more info

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"The first rule of research administration is [generally scientists don't know much about it]" Time for that to change

Dear US scientists,

We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form
"Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!"

We can explain.

It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan.

Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

Jan 31-last day to enroll in the TRASE training on principles of reproducible research in aging & social science. IMO these skills and thinking are sorely lacking in most current training programs. Understanding of the importance has advanced rapidly in the past 25 years but training lags. #EpiSky

A screenshot of the paper's title, Geographical variation in the long-arm of childhood, and abstract.

Numerous studies have found a relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (CSES) and health in adulthood. In a new paper, I find this relationship varies across states, suggesting state context plays an important role in shaping health across the life course: tinyurl.com/bdactvkz