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Epidemiology PhD student at @ColumbiaMSPH

New York / London
Joined June 2020
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What we're losing ($ for @MTA) and what we're getting (more cars and GHG emissions) every day we go without #congestionpricing
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The sound of planes flying while you try to sleep may contribute to heart-related hospitalisations. In a new @ImperialSPH study, researchers assessed the link between hospitalisations and late night/early morning aircraft noise in 6.3 million people living near Heathrow Airport.
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Mounting research suggests that the relationship between noise levels and heart-related deaths is eerily consistent. See more about the effects of noise on your health and what can be done about it. nyti.ms/3MYGtO1
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Working remotely from South Africa is all fun and games until you have to explain that you can’t make it to any of your meetings because you forgot to check the load shedding schedule and now you’re just sitting in the dark with no wifi for the next 3 hours
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In “The Power Broker,” Caro says, “When RM came to power in NYC in 1934, the city’s mass transportation system was probably the best in the world. When he left power in '68 it was quite possibly the worst.” While improved since, the legacy of RM's assault on transit is still felt
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I can't believe no-one has used the Rstudio Viewer pane to show bowling animations before based off the p-value in a t-test. Soon in base #rstats?
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The duality of academia
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Vehicles needed to transport 1,000 people in NYC
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Hot take: we’re allowed to acknowledge the positive contributions the Queen made to modern Britain while understanding that British colonialism and the monarchy suck
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What might our cities look like if we prioritised people, not cars? Here's a visualisation of what Marble Arch, London's 5-lane mega-roundabout, could look like if we did just that. Visualisation: @jan_kamensky for #ShimanoFutureCities project
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Remember in Ebola all the discussion about needing to engage anthropologists to understand why African villagers would shun medical advice? Now we’ve got a much larger epidemic in our own country, but I hear no call to study the culture & mindset of those disregarding health recs
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Me, 18, terrified of emailing my moms friends who worked in public health for career advice Me, 26, THRILLED to receive emails from my moms friends’ kids asking for public health career advice
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Me in quarantine Cox regression 🤝 Vague concept of time
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