I just appeared on Alec Baldwin’s podcast (yes, that guy!) describing the state of the diabetes epidemic and root causes of its inequities. Check it out! iheart.com/podcast/1119-h…

Justin White and co-workers report an evaluation of the 2017 sugar-sweetened beverage tax enacted in Oakland in California. doi.org/10.1371/journa… Justin White Dean Schillinger UCSF IHPS UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics Berkeley Public Health UCSF CVP at ZSFG #health #economics #nutrition

UCSF IHPS affiliated faculty Dean Schillinger (@drdeancommxn) in The New York Times Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say nytimes.com/2022/10/05/hea…

Open Access! 'Seeing 'The Bigger Picture:'Impact of an Arts-Focused Type 2 Diabetes Education Program in High Schools'examines how the integration of civic engagement opportunities into curriculum might impact students’ capacity to create positive change. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The time has come to confront type 2 diabetes as a societal problem, not just a biomedical one. A new federal commission report makes the case

In their new Forefront article, Dean Schillinger, Ann Bullock, + William H. Herman from UC San Francisco, IndianHealthService, + Michigan Public Health discuss how the NCCC report has the potential to contribute to meaningful change across the diabetes continuum and beyond. bit.ly/3nml3hH

Amazing to see NIH promote our paper on precision communication! Shout out to my colleagues at ASU, GSU, and Kaiser DOR

The good news? Low HL patients who had doctors that used simple words and sentences had 30% greater understanding than those who didn't!

This is Precision Communication, where doctors change their language to match patients' level of health literacy.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Most doctors use language that is too complex for patients to understand.

A new paper in Science Advances from CVP's co-founder Dean Schillinger & team finds that Precision Communication can solve this problem & promote #healthequity .🧵

CVP's The Bigger Picture—an arts-based public health campaign—released “Survival Pending Revolution” featuring young Black, Latinx, & Asian/Pacific Islander poets as they reconcile the suffering and loss caused by COVID-19 with the promise of a vaccine.

thebiggerpicture.youthspeaks.org/covid-19

Study of 100K US primary school students shows that the distance learning model significantly impaired children’s literacy levels, with the greatest losses seen in children from historically “lower-achieving” districts. nytimes.com/live/2021/03/0…

Youth-centered poetry & health workshops offer a safe haven during the COVID-19 pandemic

Watch youthspeaks' Raising Health here: youtube.com/watch?v=B9FavB…

Communicating about health and illness is as old as language itself. How has social media changed this?

CVP Health Communications Research Team just published a new framework to understand the influences of social media on public health.

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.21… Dean Schillinger

My doc friend and colleague leif hass beautifully describes how love (and homemade porridge) can enable recovery from COVID.
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

What’s Wrong With You? | Humanities | JAMA Neurology | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Just out! #WIC policy that provided healthier foods to low-income moms in pregnancy led to improvements in child health. Policy as a lever for #pophealth ! Study led by Alice Guan, our fabulous PhD student UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/… AAP CME Journals Kaja LeWinn The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

On January 26, 2021 at 5pm EST, the NEA and UCSF come together to launch the Sound Health Network, a partnership in collaboration with the NIH, the John F . Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Renée Fleming. Register here to join us: soundhealth.ucsf.edu/events/shn-lau…

via @NYTimes. Two insiders’ harrowing stories about what happened behind the iron curtain of this administration’s CDC. nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/…

This is fabulous. Please check out a sister spoken word/public health program calling out the social injustices that drive the diabetes epidemic in youth of color at thebiggerpicture.org and jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

As I witness COVID reeking its havoc — especially among the elderly and people of color —I feel it's important to recognize the grief experienced by physicians who've provided ongoing care for these individuals, often for decades, by sharing this poem.
deanschillinger.com/elegy-for-two-…