Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪 .. more
Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
Megan L. Ranney is a practicing American emergency physician currently serving as the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Previously, Ranney served as the Deputy Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, was Warren Alpert Endowed Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Ranney was the founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. .. more
Meanwhile, there are PROVEN ways to bring down our country's number of car crash deaths.
As someone who's taken care of too many car crash victims... I vote for what works. 🩺🧪🛟
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My short list includes:
My health.
The ability to have a job that I love.
My kids, parents, husband being together this holiday.
The fact that I know there are LOTS of people trying to do good in the world.
The fact that the world keeps turning. 🙏
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🫂 The time of leaving is the time of greatest risk
‼️ DVROs w/ firearm removal make a difference
📞 Good resources include  www.thehotline.org
4. Address the systemic factors that put too many of us at risk.
And most important:
(5/x)
1. Make sure we continue to track data: without it, we can't know whether things are getting better. (We suspect that things will get worse when women lose reproductive choice.)
2. Make sure DV restraining orders are accompanied by removal of firearms
(4/x)
* Sadly, young, Black women had the highest risk ratio.
(3/x)
looks in detail at the circumstances related to violent deaths); WISQARS (looks at injury); WONDER (tracks many many vital statistics including birth rates)...will these data sources remain available?
(2/x)
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
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No promise to share the benefits of that IP, though - in contrast to WHO agreements that are under negotiation.
www.reuters.com/business/hea... 🛟🧪🩺
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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➡️ From Neighborhood ‘Beefs’ to Public Health Crisis: As Culture of Violence Shifts, Nonviolence Work Must Reach Further" archive.is/SWDy4