Awaiting justice, residents continue to grapple with serious physical and mental health issues related to the Flint Water crisis. Prof. Xi Chen | 陈希 discusses how low-weight births increased during the water crisis. “It’s a huge impact,” he says.
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🧵 New Special Communication examines drawing causal inferences about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals and suggests a framework that might be used.

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Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

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Check out the #Aging Well in Asia: Asian Development Policy Report 2024. This report examines the four dimensions of #wellbeing in older people in Asia and provides recommendations for the policy domains related to this population's aging.

Read here: adb.org/publications/a…

People with 2 copies of APOE4 were known to have a high risk of #Alzheimers .
Today that changed to nearly 100% full penetrance
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Love UConn Dairy Bar even more, with this fresh new version #UConn #NCAA 2024 Champion Mocha Medley🍦😋🏀
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Comparing birth records from #Flint & other US cities, studies find a 12%⬇️ in fertility rate & a 15.5%⬆️ in LBW babies in Flint after the crisis. “It’s a huge impact,” says Xi Chen Yale School of Public Health “and much larger for Black mothers due to systemic disadvantages” cen.acs.org/environment/wa…

Asian Development Policy Report: Aging Well in Asia adb.org/adpr/editions/… Paul Irving Xi Chen | 陈希 Bert Hofman（郝福满） Jon Taylor Ian Johnson Adam Tooze Dan Banik Kwame Owino Elon Musk S.L. Kanthan Erik Berglof Arnold Bernault #ageing

Virologist Zhang Yonzhen was shut out of his lab and camping outside for days and nights. nature.com/articles/d4158…

I am honored to be offered the job of Editor-in-Chief of Health Economics HEC Editors, replacing the excellent Sally Stearns (@GillingsGlobal).

I plan to reject this offer. Why?

In 2014, the exposure of residents to lead in drinking water in a US city caused a national outcry, prompting requirements to update infrastructure & tighten water quality standards.

A decade on, Susan Jaffe explores the legacy of the Flint water crisis: hubs.li/Q02v9j2c0

🌍Application Deadline Approaching (May 6, 2024): PKU-Yale Joint Health Economics Summer Camp Peking University #YaleCenterBeijing

The theme of our 2nd joint summer camp is One Health.

Senior year undergrads and graduate students worldwide are welcome to apply.

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My interview with The Michigan Daily on the eve of 10th anniversary, regarding our research on the long-term health and development impacts, social equity and public policy implications on the #Flint water crisis (2014-2024). Yale School of Public Health
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The three eras of #ArtificialIntelligence , a growing body of economic studies, and the huge potential of #GenerativeAI in reshaping the field of economics. Read this issue of the #NBER reporter.
nber.org/reporter/2024n…