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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 2d

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New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · 10d

📖New Publication Alert! 📖

Population Health & the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review (Social Science and Medicine)

"...there is a clear lack of community-level empirical research examining the carceral tools used by the 'care' arms of the state."

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Population Health and the Carceral Continuum: A Narrative Review

Mass incarceration in the US constitutes only one facet of a larger carceral network. Key carceral logics such as punishment, policing, surveillance, …

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Oct 3

The coolest thing about a job in academia is teaching, but also learning. I am sharing this reflection as I sit in a seminar about thermo fluid applications in mechanical engineering, something I know nothing about. Interdisciplinary research is as much about learning as it is knowledge generation.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Sep 26

New Publication Alert! This paper advocates for Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs), which provide people with opioid use disorder with dignity and treat them with empathy, necessary prerequisites to engaging individuals in behavior change.

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Overdose Prevention Centers: Advancing Harm Reduction and the Right to Health in the United States

This paper advocates for Overdose Prevention Centers (OPCs) to advance the right to health among people with opioid use disorder in the United States. Despite a recent decline in overdose fatalities, ...

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Aug 26

"How are chocolate and research related?" I asked my students before I conducted a chocolate tasting - OOPS! I mean guided research exercise using the senses to examine physical properties of cacao confections.

#Fall2025 #PublicHealthResearch #ResearchMethods #UNForgettable

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Aug 25

New publication alert!

"The [Systems Think Tank] demonstrated how [system dynamics] modeling can be used to build mutual understanding and inform exploration of complex health problems, such as the opioid crisis, within diverse communities."

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Frontiers | System dynamics modeling in support of community-based decision-making to reduce opioid overdose fatalities

Both New York State (NYS) and the United States have experienced heightened levels of opioid overdose death and prevalence of opioid use in recent decades. W...

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Jul 17

Authors: Max Spaderna, Jennifer Krebs, Jewell Benford, Aaron Greenblatt, Charles Callahan, and Samuel B. Little, PhD.

@univofmaryland.bsky.social ‬; @medschool.umaryland.edu

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Jul 17

A fantastic paper by about a pilot feasibility study of stipdents for housing among people using methadone for opioid use disorder (MOUD) experiencing homelessness. My favorite quote from the paper was from a participant of the study: "'If we apply ourselves, good things happen.'"

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Jul 17

"...results suggest that housing assistance is feasible and beneficial for patients receiving MOUD...[however], providing temporary financial assistance for housing without accounting for how the rent will be paid once the assistance ends risks making patients homeless again."

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Jacobine SdJ @jacobine.bsky.social · Jun 27

Save us, o Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ & asleep may rest in peace. #nightprayer

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · May 27

"How do we design housing systems so that people can thrive, not just survive?"

Deeply inspired by the community centered systems focused interventions shared in this seminar and the dedicated people driving them forward.

#HxHLab

Giselle Routhier, PhD, MSW @giselle-ashley.bsky.social · May 27

Join us today at 1pm for a Health x Housing Lab virtual research seminar! Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults w/ @kellymdoran.bsky.social

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Welcome! You are invited to join the Health x Housing Lab seminar, Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e...

You are invited to a virtual research seminar highlighting community engagement in research on housing and service interventions for young adults. Sarah Narendorf, PhD, LCSW and Aryeana Straughter w...

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Apr 26

"A new economy inspired by Francis of Assisi can and must become an economy of friendship with the earth and an economy of peace.” - Pope Francis

#RIP #PopeFrancis #EconomyOfFrancesco

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am overjoyed to share that I will be joining the faculty at the University of North Florida Brooks College of Health as an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Science. Thanks be to God and my wonderful support system of family, mentors, and friends. North or nowhere; it's time to soar! 🦅

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 18

Public art is a unique gift; something this beautiful has to be enjoyed by the masses.

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 13

One way of changing behavior? Clowns!

Bogota implemented street mimes, which led to decrease road rage. An important intervention to replicate because road rage is associated with domestic violence.

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Academic turns city into a social experiment — Harvard Gazette

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in…

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 12

The future of transportation? Solution for urban challenges?

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 12

This is one of many articles comparing the livability of places, specifically how family-friendly they are. The article immediately starts with a call for people to move abroad. What if we instead reframe this to a call for universal design of family friendliness?

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The tropical island named the world’s most family-friendly country in 2025

Cheap childcare and bags of inspiring wildlife – what more do you need

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 7

We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 11

"To save lives, it’s critical that elected leaders go all in on a public health approach to drugs—providing better access to health and harm reduction services, treatment, and drug education based in facts, not fear." - Sheila Vakharia, Drug Policy Alliance

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Overdose deaths are going down: health, harm reduction approaches play a big role - Drug Policy Alliance

Overdose deaths are finally going down due to public health solutions. Dr. Sheila Vakharia explains, including what we can do to save lives.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 10

“The lesson of Jesus that we have heard does not allow escape routes... You cannot stonewall a person who is hungry: he must be fed... The works of mercy are not theoretical ideas, but concrete testimonies. They oblige us to roll up our sleeves to alleviate suffering.” - Pope Francis

#QuoteOfTheDay

Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 6

"Trump administration’s proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would worsen the worker shortage—deepening the housing crisis and undermining the administration’s goals to 'lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply.'"

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Mass Deportations Would Worsen Our Housing Crisis

Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force, which is highly dependent on immigrant workers, exacerbating the US housing crisis—but some states are more at risk than others.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 5

Art is infinite and regenerative, as is hope.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 5

Where there is art, there is hope.

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Nishi Dsouza @nishitadsouza.bsky.social · Mar 1

"Findings highlight important implications, particularly regarding the potential impact of privatizing public services on residual income, especially for low-income households that may be more dependent on public social infrastructure."

Learn more about livability: youtu.be/FkyvjH9cix0?...

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Measuring Livability and its Influence on Health - Nishita Dsouza's Dissertation Defense

YouTube video by Nishita Dsouza

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