Happy International Left Handers’ Day to my fellow lefties!

Need a Casey’s (or Happy Joe’s) Taco Pizza Distinguished Professor here in Iowa! 😂

Big news! Our RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis has received a $2.8M funding renewal to continue its vital work in understanding the complexities of rural health care systems and specific needs of rural communities. #PublicHealth #ruralhealth tinyurl.com/2wtshtpr

Yes! I need Nneka’s shirt! 🤩

One of favorite things is to find PubMed entries for politicians, celebrities, etc. Here are Kamala Harris’s mom’s breast cancer studies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Shyamala…

Hadn’t been to a WNBA game since 1998. Now—two games in two nights!! Lynx-Aces yesterday, Lynx-Fever tonight! ⛹🏻‍♀️🏀

.Caitlin Clark watching Maya Moore’s jersey retirement with all the young girls in 22 jerseys behind her 💙

Gotta love a good Gamehawks' "art but sports" rendition! Ha!

Happy first day of classes, Hawkeyes, and congrats on 25 years, University of Iowa Public Health! 🖤💛

“Corn sweat” produces 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of water per acre per day x 12.9 million acres of corn in Iowa= 🌽😓

Taught my first Fall semester classes today--shout out to KFF for their great "Health Policy 101" resources that are now a staple of my syllabus/reading assignments.

I’m a teacher and my students know I love women’s basketball and Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Had to use them as rule reminders for my classroom.

1-0. #Illini // #HTTO // #famILLy

Dang--another rural Iowa hospital is closing its OB unit. Second one in that area that has closed its OB unit in the last five years (Marshalltown closed theirs in 2019).😔

How does historical racial violence shape today's health outcomes? 🤔 Check out my latest blog post on the legacy of #SundownTowns on health inequities and service research on AcademyHealth’s blog. academyhealth.org/blog/2024-08/l… #HealthEquity #StructuralRacism #HSR

So sad to hear! 💔

✅Sat on my balcony with a cup of coffee and 60 degree weather ✅ Baked some blueberry walnut muffins Now writing some student letters of recommendation and watching football. This is is what Saturdays in the “fall” are for!

The Midwest🤝Cats

Congratulations to Khyathi Gadag for her new paper on the extent to which Medicare Advantage plans address social needs: liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

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