About student journalists covering the ProPalestinian protests:
https://www.pulitzer.org/news/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-3

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/04/should-columbias-president-resign/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2024/05/04/columbia-professor-arrested-nypd-protests-israel-gaza/73561493007/

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

Dr. Kenneth Davis, CEO of Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, juggles a multitude of challenges operating one of the largest systems in the U.S. These include trying to overcome hurdles with a population health initiative as an alternative to the traditional fee-for-service insurance model and defending its Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Davis also reflects on how he and his colleagues traversed the early COVID wave.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talked with Dr. Davis on location at Aspen Ideas: Health, a premier gathering of health care leaders and influencers.

https://community.chc1.com/2023/07/tough-feisty-visionary-mount-sinais-ceo-on-location-at-aspen-ideas-health/

My sermon at Grace and St. Johns today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OeMiI0b7o

At the #WeitzmanSymposium, Brian Smedley is talking about decolonizing mental health and references the APA Apology to People of Color https://www.apa.org/about/policy/racism-apology

For more on the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation framework which Dr. Gail C Christopher is talking about at the #WeitzmanSymposium, see https://bridgingdivides.princeton.edu/news/2022/new-interactive-map-supporting-us-truth-racial-healing-and-transformation-movement

At the #WeitzmanSymposium, right now, Dr. Gail C Christopher is discussing an Rx for Racial Healing. Join us. http://bit.ly/2023-symposium

#Sermon excerpt on #AngloCatholic response to #loneliness epidemic preached at Grace Episcopal Church in Hartford, CT, with my first attempt #panning for #bilateralstimulation for my #neurospicy friends

https://www.tiktok.com/@aldonhynes/video/7233426693212638510

My sermon for Sunday, May 14, 2023

https://youtu.be/89KX4rMRfig

After more than 3 years, the national COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ends today, May 11. During the pandemic, 834,909 unique patients from Connecticut, about 1 in 4 people in the state, came to one of the many Community Health Center sites across the state for either a COVID test or vaccine.

https://mailchi.mp/mwhs1/end-of-covid-public-health-emergency?e=1efc245231

Today, as the United States officially ends the COVID public health emergency, we know too many Americans continue to deal with the aftereffects of the pandemic, including mental health and substance abuse challenges.

Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

She joins hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to explain plans for dealing with the fact there are more Americans dying of drug overdoses now than at any time in modern history. Research also shows over 5 million Americans are struggling with an opioid addiction.

https://community.chc1.com/2023/05/covid-emergency-ends-but-mental-health-issues-remain/

Philip Zelikow, co-author of the new book “Lessons from the COVID War,” has an important finding as the U.S. still grapples with the tough questions from the pandemic:

“We point out in the report that community health workers can play this extraordinary role…where we had them [during the pandemic], they were really effective and that’s like a huge innovation that should punch out to us as a lesson from this war and can have a dramatic effect in America,” says Zelikow.

He also explains to Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter that “to this day, most patients who get COVID are not being properly treated with available medications.” Zelikow concludes a lack of preparedness is one of the main reasons the country performed so badly during the past three years.

https://community.chc1.com/2023/05/covid-investigator-praises-community-health-workers-huge-innovation/

Conference organizers: it is not safe for your trans participants to go to a conference in Kansas because they can no longer safely and legally pee there. Florida is likely to do the same soon. And maybe in the future any state without positive protections in law already in place.

Pick your future venues carefully and ask for escape clauses in your venue contracts should anti-trans laws be passed.

Anti-tobacco advocates just had another big win: New York, California, and several other states reached a settlement worth nearly $500 million against e-cigarette maker Juul Labs.

How can states use these funds for public health good? And how is the truth initiative helping to spread messages about the dangers of vaping?

Truth Initiative is America’s largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use and nicotine addiction a thing of the past. Experts credit it for helping significantly reduce teen cigarette use in the last 20 years.

Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter discuss their approach with CEO and president Robin Koval.

https://community.chc1.com/2023/04/turning-off-e-cigarettes-health-advocates-score-a-victory/

Additional thoughts on "Are People on Social Media Actually That Outraged?"

"“[People] think that outrage is normative, and that’s really important, because we know that norms are a strong predictor of group behavior.”"

I wonder how norms of outrage vary between Twitter and Mastodon.

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/social-media-twitter-outrage

A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

Do you remember that one time when a popular candidate for POTUS got indicted for paying hush money to cover up an affair and his backers didn't freak out and gird their loins for war because they didn't want someone with that kind of judgement to be President? #trump

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, the first openly gay person to be elected as president of the American Medical Association, joins hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter to discuss potential cuts to federal health care and the need for more diversity in the doctors’ ranks.

He also explains the organization’s “Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians” to address burnout among its nearly 300,000 physician members.

https://community.chc1.com/2023/03/history-making-incoming-ama-president-on-his-vision/