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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡)
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Impact Fellow & Adjunct Faculty, UC Berkeley Public Health Former State Health Officer & Director, California Dept Public Health. Former Health Officer & Director, Pop Health Div, SF Dept Public Health Blog: TEAMPublicHealth.substack.com
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Nov 25
Becoming a learning, healing, and impactful organization:

The LHI model for transforming self, teams, and more
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Becoming a learning, healing, and impactful organization
The LHI model for transforming self, relationships, teams, and more
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 2d
Download selected #TEAMPublicHealth infographics. Frameworks organize our reasoning, decisions, actions, reflections, learnings, and improvements.
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Downloadables from TEAM Public Health
These are the most popular infographics on TEAM Public Health.
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 3d
#CharacterMatters We have a crisis of moral character in the US. "Good character is the foundation of building trust. Good character is having steady and permanent dispositions to do what is right and to refrain from doing what is wrong." Virtue is the act of good character. Use downloadable image.
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 3d
“What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity,” Mr. Mamdani said. “And what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience.” #MoralCharacterMatters
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/n...
7 Takeaways From the First N.Y.C. Mayoral Debate
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 3d
"A growing body of research suggests that behavior is not just a matter of willpower; it's the result of prediction. Our mental system constantly generates expectations about what will happen next, including what we ourselves are likely to do, think, or feel."
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spon...
Why We Act Against Our Values and How to Change
You know better, yet you stay stuck in old patterns. Maybe the real issue isn’t willpower, but your mind’s predictions about who you are.
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 9d
Manage Conflict with PDSA Looping: A practical tool for deep inquiry, listening, and learning. #TEAMPublicHealth
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Manage Conflict with PDSA Looping
A practical tool for deep inquiry, listening, and learning
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 13d
From public health heroes Michael Mann and Peter Hotez!

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 15d
Was the backlash against the childhood immunization schedule inevitable? Prediction with causal loop diagrams and systems thinking #TEAMPublicHealth
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Was the backlash against the childhood immunization schedule inevitable?
Prediction with causal loop diagrams and systems thinking
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 19d
Download table: "Listening with intention and purpose"! Courtesy of #TEAMPublicHealth
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 19d
On principle, I am boycotting ai fake content.
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 24d
I use Obsidian for note taking and personal knowledge management #PKM. I love this free and powerful app! I use Nick Milo's ACE method to organize my notes. Here is great 15 minute introduction by Nick Milo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Ab...
Give Me 15 Minutes. I'll Teach You 80% of Obsidian
YouTube video by Linking Your Thinking with Nick Milo
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 24d
Political survival for public health officials: A primer for appointed government health officials
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Political survival for public health officials
A primer for appointed local government health officials
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · 29d
This news story will lift y/our spirits and warm y/our heart! We need it!

New documentary "Speak" explores world of high school debate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCW...
New documentary "Speak" explores world of high school debate
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 19
Great and informative summary! Thanks Leana Wen M.D. M.Sc.!!!

"RFK Jr.’s dismantling of the vaccine schedule has only just begun: Why it matters that the CDC is altering the childhood immunization schedule."

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | RFK Jr.’s dismantling of the vaccine schedule has only just begun
Why it matters that the CDC is altering the childhood immunization schedule.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 19
We need to this now more that ever!

How to break the high-conflict cycle - Amanda Ripley - best-selling author of "High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out." Simon & Schuster, 2022.

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How to break the high-conflict cycle | Amanda Ripley
YouTube video by Big Think
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 19
Exciting, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work as *the* State Epidemiologist with the largest, most innovative state health department in the US. The "State Epi" reports directly to Dr. Erica Pan, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 17
California Issues Respiratory Virus Immunization Guidance -
September 17, 2025 - With PDF summary tables
www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 17
Dr. Susan Monarez's 5min opening statement is a profile in moral courage!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODb9...
‘I was fired for holding the line’: Ousted CDC director testifies about RFK Jr. dismissing her
YouTube video by CNN
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 14
# 42 Rising in Health & Wellness on Substack!

Thanks for supporting #TEAMPublicHealth

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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 13
What does Florida's Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, teach us about public health ethics and decision making?
Improving our public health ethical decision-making and practice.
teampublichealth.substack.com/p/what-does-...
What does Florida's Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, teach us about public health ethics and decision making?
Improving our public health ethical decision-making and practice
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 10
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Supporting TEAM Public Health
Sharing - Contributing - Subscribing
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 10
Classic example of "outcome bias," or what @annieduke.com calls "resulting." To avoid reckless decision processes, read my blog TEAMpubilchealth.substack.com .

www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Harris Calls Decision to Let Biden Run Again Reckless in New Memoir
The former vice president defends Biden’s mental acuity but says the choice to run shouldn’t have been ‘left to an individual’s ego.’
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 7
Florida surgeon general questioned on data before ending vaccine mandates
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrX...
Florida surgeon general questioned on data before ending vaccine mandates
YouTube video by CNN
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Sep 3
Dr Erica Pan, Director and State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health. “California stands together with our public health and medical professional colleagues to uphold integrity and support our mission to protect the health of our communities.”
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
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Tomás Aragón (托马斯·阿拉贡) @tomasaragon.bsky.social · Aug 29
Simple and effective techniques to improve how you leverage AI to support and challenge you to improve.
#1: Chain of Thought Reasoning
#2: Few-Shot Prompting
#3: Reverse Prompting
#4: Assigning a Role to AI
#5: Roleplaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMOm...
5 Prompting Hacks to 10x Your AI Productivity Today | Stanford University, Jeremy Utley
YouTube video by EO
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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · Aug 24
Nice defense of diversity from Oklahoma of all places: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.
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