Two big points here:
*The quality of the student loan application is not a one-off. Lots of very talented and competent people are trying to make it the norm
*It's not all on them. legislators can reduce or create admin burden in their policy design choices.

New from Pamela Herd & I: the Biden administration's loan forgiveness application is so well-designed that it turned an administrative process into a moment of joy.

Governments can and should learn from it. 🧵
nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opi…

PA healthcare providers: Our state just dramatically expanded SNAP. Make sure your patients know!

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The Biden Administration has approved Oregon's transformative Section 1115 Medicaid request which will provide a major new support for young families.

JOB ALERT!

.Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS and I are hiring:

➡️a *clinical research coordinator* (wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/upe… )
➡️and a *project manager*(wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiti…)

For our #IGNITEstudy of concentrated investments in Black neighborhoods: clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05…

New WIC systematic review finds broad benefits but also knowledge gaps. My reading is that most study designs aren't particularly strong, and we still don't understand how to address low program take-up. medscape.com/viewarticle/98… @medscape CA WIC Association National WIC Association Aditi Vasan UC Nutrition Policy

We need to talk about wealth.

For every $1 of white family wealth, Black families have 12 cents.

George Dalembert, Atheendar Venkataramani, & I lay out why & how health systems should be addressing the racial wealth gap in this NEJM piece ‘Building Black Wealth’ /1 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Inspired by the healthcare providers and kids/teens I've learned from in Philly, I wrote a letter to the editor The New York Times on the city's firearm violence epidemic: nytimes.com/2022/08/17/opi… Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic - SAFE

Join our team! We are partnering with the Penn Urban Health Lab (Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS) on the IGNITE study (pennmedicine.org/news/news-rele…) and are hiring a clinical research coordinator!

Posting here!
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Addressing social needs is a promising method to address #HealthEquity and prevent poor child health outcomes.

Read more from LDI Senior Fellows Zoe Bouchelle and Aditi Vasan about addressing family-centered social needs in the inpatient setting. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35843956/

Our latest study P&P Epidemiology, led by Berkeley Public Health MPH grad Richard Pulvera, found that 2009 #WIC revisions led to less wt gain in pregnancy & more breastfeeding among low-income families, promoting #healthequity . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pp… USDA Nutrition Aditi Vasan Atheendar Venkataramani

The federal title X program is why you can walk into a family planning clinic (eg Planned Parenthood) and get care, no questions asked.

We wrote about why expanding this program should be at the top of the post-Roe policy agenda:
bit.ly/3uO6NSO

via The Hill

It was fun to chat with the talented and enthusiastic Penn LDI #SUMRScholars today.

Here are some pearls I tried to cover (in case it is useful to anyone else).

What we argue, however, is that it's not just about how generous polices are (e.g. whether benefits are large or small or who gets covered), the administration matters too. If people can't access those supports, those policies won't improve their health. 3/

I tweet more about admin burden, but I also do research on how social conditions, including social policies, affect health. I'm re-sharing a Health Affairs piece we did on how to conceptualize the relationship between admin burden and health 1/ healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb…

In today's The Philadelphia Inquirer, I renew my call for a laser focus on the 57 blocks, 10 zip codes, and 25 schools most impacted by gun violence.

There are proven methods to take on this gun violence crisis — and our city needs to act with urgency to deploy every single approach. 🧵⬇️