Holly Jarman, PhD
@hjarman.bsky.social
Associate Prof Health Management & Policy / Global Public Health, University of Michigan. Political scientist studying regulation of products and markets that impact health. Opinions my own.
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Impeach RFK Jr. And vote out everyone who voted to confirm him in the first place.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Impeach RFK Jr. And vote out everyone who voted to confirm him in the first place.
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Calm down. It’s not like this president sent a bunch of scumbags to hang his own Vice president.
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Calm down. It’s not like this president sent a bunch of scumbags to hang his own Vice president.
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JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
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Interview with Neil Lewis,
Health policy professors Michael Shepherd (University of Michigan) and Miranda Yaver (University of Pittsburgh) interview Professor Neil Lewis (Cornell University) about his forthcoming article in the
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
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Entirely predictable after OBBBA and Trump’s refusal to pay out. I believe SNAP benefits are on average $6.20 per person per day. A gallon of milk is $4. This manufactured fraud narrative will cause real hardship.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Entirely predictable after OBBBA and Trump’s refusal to pay out. I believe SNAP benefits are on average $6.20 per person per day. A gallon of milk is $4. This manufactured fraud narrative will cause real hardship.
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We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
I’ve posted much less in 2025 bc I’m a childhood sexual assault survivor who must follow politics for my job. I’m usually capable of standing up when politics get personal, but I’m struggling. I hate it and feel weak. If you are incensed by Epstein/Trump and can do more than post about it, pls do!
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I’ve posted much less in 2025 bc I’m a childhood sexual assault survivor who must follow politics for my job. I’m usually capable of standing up when politics get personal, but I’m struggling. I hate it and feel weak. If you are incensed by Epstein/Trump and can do more than post about it, pls do!
Why regulating oral nicotine pouches is so challenging, featuring my cool colleagues Nargiz Travis and Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, and our cochrane review! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Experts concerned over health effects of high-dose nicotine pouches as sales soar in UK
Teenagers reported nicotine rushes, sickness and fainting in recent research amid claims of ‘targeting younger age groups’
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Why regulating oral nicotine pouches is so challenging, featuring my cool colleagues Nargiz Travis and Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, and our cochrane review! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It’s almost as if drastically limiting major trading relationships has economic consequences
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It’s almost as if drastically limiting major trading relationships has economic consequences
I did not have ‘Supreme Court screws Trump over tariffs’ on my 2025 democracy bingo card, but here’s hoping
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I did not have ‘Supreme Court screws Trump over tariffs’ on my 2025 democracy bingo card, but here’s hoping
Somehow he goes so far beyond saying the quiet part out loud that he circles back around to somewhere in the vicinity of the truth
love that he is (correctly!) telling his followers to blame republicans for everything bad that happens in the next three years
you, wise: "lol you think there's gonna be more elections? trump's gonna cancel them"
me, dumb: "well, someone should tell donald trump then"
me, dumb: "well, someone should tell donald trump then"
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Somehow he goes so far beyond saying the quiet part out loud that he circles back around to somewhere in the vicinity of the truth
Good god, please don’t make me have to revisit Econ lit on Smoot Hawley, I might not make it www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump cancels trade talks with Canada over anti-tariffs advert
The US president says he is axing negotiations over an advert that used Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
www.bbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Good god, please don’t make me have to revisit Econ lit on Smoot Hawley, I might not make it www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The campaign to kill off rural health orgs is in full swing. How it started: www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre... How it’s going: www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c... These were released on the SAME DAY.
Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.
www.statnews.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The campaign to kill off rural health orgs is in full swing. How it started: www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre... How it’s going: www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c... These were released on the SAME DAY.
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when i wrote about these folks being segregationists, i was told it was a stretch
if anything, i undersold their venality
if anything, i undersold their venality
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
when i wrote about these folks being segregationists, i was told it was a stretch
if anything, i undersold their venality
if anything, i undersold their venality
FYI, ‘announce causation based on a few bad studies claiming correlation then pay people to make the proof’ is not how the scientific method works. It’s not just bad deductively, it’s not even good inductive reasoning.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
FYI, ‘announce causation based on a few bad studies claiming correlation then pay people to make the proof’ is not how the scientific method works. It’s not just bad deductively, it’s not even good inductive reasoning.
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I have been off bluesky for a while - but this is a good reason to be back. Check out the latest from me, @reshmagar.bsky.social & @hollylynchez.bsky.social!
With thanks to the many folks whose work informed this piece, incl @rachelsachs.bsky.social , @sbagen.bsky.social @drjoshs.bsky.social...
With thanks to the many folks whose work informed this piece, incl @rachelsachs.bsky.social , @sbagen.bsky.social @drjoshs.bsky.social...
New from @pzettler.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social + me in @jhppl.bsky.social.
We describe themes driving historic FDA reforms, explain how what's happening under Trump2 is different + call for principles to guide FDA reform and activity across administrations.
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
We describe themes driving historic FDA reforms, explain how what's happening under Trump2 is different + call for principles to guide FDA reform and activity across administrations.
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
October 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I have been off bluesky for a while - but this is a good reason to be back. Check out the latest from me, @reshmagar.bsky.social & @hollylynchez.bsky.social!
With thanks to the many folks whose work informed this piece, incl @rachelsachs.bsky.social , @sbagen.bsky.social @drjoshs.bsky.social...
With thanks to the many folks whose work informed this piece, incl @rachelsachs.bsky.social , @sbagen.bsky.social @drjoshs.bsky.social...
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If she has a baby in her placenta, she has bigger problems.
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If she has a baby in her placenta, she has bigger problems.
This! The bbc’s story is absolutely not good science communication!
Timely reminder that 'associative' language leads lay people to confuse correlation and causation, as @tomerullman.bsky.social and I showed a few years ago.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Snapshot from the BBC:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This! The bbc’s story is absolutely not good science communication!
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A good reason for faculty to join the @aaup.org , which fights for academic freedom and works to defend against attacks like this.
100%. I'm sure the inboxes of every dep't chair, dean, and university president are currently full of complaints from students who dislike aspects of their classes. Those coming from right-wing students are coupled with threats that the next stop is DOJ.
A reminder that the DOJ wants to investigate the issue. The DOJ wasting time investigating our classrooms is an open invitation for any frivolous complaint from any student, anywhere with too much time on their hands.
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A good reason for faculty to join the @aaup.org , which fights for academic freedom and works to defend against attacks like this.
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Thomas Edsall at the NYT discussed here the research that @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social and I did on the second Trump Admin's first 100 days of health policy. Here's the oh so cheery paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | What Can’t Trump Wreck?
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Thomas Edsall at the NYT discussed here the research that @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social and I did on the second Trump Admin's first 100 days of health policy. Here's the oh so cheery paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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No kings! (Knights are still cool tho). Thank you Sir for wearing a hot knight’s costume on a scorching day!
June 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
No kings! (Knights are still cool tho). Thank you Sir for wearing a hot knight’s costume on a scorching day!
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God is angry. No Kings.
June 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
God is angry. No Kings.
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I used to hear my older and wiser NHS interviewees talk about how every reorganization recapitulated one they had already been through, and how existentially boring it was, and calibrate their retirement accordingly. I understood intellectually. More and more I also feel how they feel.
June 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I used to hear my older and wiser NHS interviewees talk about how every reorganization recapitulated one they had already been through, and how existentially boring it was, and calibrate their retirement accordingly. I understood intellectually. More and more I also feel how they feel.