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Global Action On Men's Health @gamh.org · Sep 8

New York Times magazine asks the question: What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor? The answer, in this in-depth article from Helen Ouyang, includes some interesting insight from GAMH chair Derek Griffith… @nytimes.com @drdmgriffith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/m...

What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Jul 17

An overlooked demographic has the highest suicide risk — and it’s been rising www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/s... via @statnews.com

An overlooked demographic has the highest suicide risk — and it’s been rising

The people most at risk from suicide aren’t adolescents in angst or those experiencing a midlife lull, but men age 75 and older.

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Global Action On Men's Health @gamh.org · Jun 9

There's a new issue of the International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health for #MensHealthWeek with a hard-hitting editorial by GAMH chair @drdmgriffith.bsky.social Derek M Griffith on the impact of President Trump on public health utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Men's Health, Population Health, and President Trump 2.0: 5 Years After George Floyd | International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Mar 20

What’s the Best Way to Design a Black Barbershop Health Intervention?

Read this @pennldi.bsky.social post about PARC Research Associate Derek Griffith's @drdmgriffith.bsky.social work: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Published in a new Translational Behavioral Medicine paper: doi.org/10.1093/tbm/...

What’s the Best Way to Design a Black Barbershop Health Intervention?

New study of Black barbershop health programs points out that the exact reason that individual programs succeed or fail is not well documented in the scientific literature.

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Mar 1

"Redlining And Whiteness: Colors Of Racism" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1til...)

In this AJPH podcast episode, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Caroline Efird, Derek M. Griffith, and Jonathan Metzl about the often-overlooked role of whiteness as a determinant of health.

AJPH 02/2025: Redlining And Whiteness: Colors of Racism

YouTube video by American Public Health Association

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Feb 25

Whiteness: A Fundamental Determinant of the Health of Rural White Americans

⬆️ NEW PAPER in #AJPH @aphapublichealth.bsky.social

By PARC Research Associate Derek M. Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social with Caroline R. Efird

doi.org/10.2105/AJPH...

#PublicHealth #SDOH #Rurality

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American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Feb 9

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Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks

Groups representing some of South Africa's white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, b...

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Feb 8

Trump’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Strategy Leaves Opponents Gasping in Outrage www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

Trump’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Strategy Leaves Opponents Gasping in Outrage

A deliberate effort by the president and his team to roll out an unceasing flow of initiatives has knocked his rivals off balance in the first days of the new administration.

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Feb 8

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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage

Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Feb 8

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · Feb 3

Join us tomorrow, February 4, for the first Emerging Scholars Exchange Program event featuring Dr. Jade Burns, PhD, RN.

Dr. Burns is a recognized expert in adolescent health and community-based health care.

Learn more and register here:
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Emerging Scholars Exchange Program: Jade Burns, PhD, RN

Jade Burns, PhD, RN has more than 15 years of experience working with youth and young adults (ages 0-24) in a variety of clinical, community-based and academic settings.

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Jan 28

www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/t...
“My big concern in the area of health equity is we are going to go backward, and our health is going to decline,” said Derek Griffith... “NIH has multiple centers they fund on health equity. Are they under threat? How deep does the rabbit hole go?”

Researchers reel as Trump administration moves quickly to cut funding and end DEI health programs

The rapidity with which the new administration is putting in place policies to end DEI programs is sowing fear among scientists

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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Policy making that denies the existence of #structuralracism...is inconsistent with the science of racism and its effects on health."

‘Divisive Concepts’ Prohibitions: Implications For Health And Health Equity https://buff.ly/40JBadm by @drdmgriffith.bsky.social and Andrew Twinamatsiko.

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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · Jan 27

Exciting news! LDI Senior Fellows Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan are recipients of the PECASE award — the highest federal honor for early-career scientists.

Their work tackles critical issues in childhood injury prevention & health equity: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan Win Presidential PECASE Awards

LDI Senior Fellows Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, and Andy Tan, PhD, MPH, have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)…

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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics @pennchibe.bsky.social · Jan 27

Has the U.S. cured health care cost growth? Join this @pennldi.bsky.social talk on Jan 31 from noon to 1 PM. This virtual event will be a conversation with Drs. Melinda J.B. Buntin, Amitabh Chandra, and @zekeemanuel.bsky.social, moderated by Rachel M. Werner. ldi.upenn.edu/events/has-t...

Has the U.S. Cured Health Care Cost Growth?

A panel of experts will explore health care cost trends and unpack potential drivers of this change and what it means for the years to come.

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Derek M Griffith @drdmgriffith.bsky.social · Jan 16

www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/h...

‘Divisive Concepts’ Prohibitions: Implications For Health And Health Equity | Health Affairs Brief

Laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the first Trump administration in 2020 labeled “divisive concepts” hamper efforts to discuss, teach, and use the best and most state-of-the-art science to understand and improve US population health and health equity in the context of a growing body of literature on the science of racism and its effects on health.

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UPenn Prevention Research Center @upennprc.bsky.social · Jan 15

Starting Day 2 of #prcweek with a familiar keynote speaker, @upenn.edu PIK professor, Derek M Griﬃth PhD. #healthequity

1. Ann Smith, CDC, & Dr. Griffith
2. @drdmgriffith.bsky.social
3. “Sankofa and the Science of Community-based Health Equity Research: Charting the Course for the Next 40 Years”

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