Something big is happening in the county jail of Flint MI An innovative rehab program is sharply reducing in-jail misconduct and post-release recidivism I'm tremendously excited to share this new paper, with Marcella Alsan, Crystal Yang, & Arkey Barnett dropbox.com/scl/fi/n21oplk…

Death in the Donut Hole paper is finally out! 🍩🍩🍩 Join me in only referring to it by this (even) better title, actually suggested by the editor

Incredible paper from Ziad Obermeyer et al. that provides further support to argument made by Utibe R. Essien, MD MPH Stacie Dusetzina and I in JAMA Health Forum jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…. Cost-sharing for chronic disease treatments is likely killing patients and undermining health equity: reform needed!

Brilliant paper by my friend Ziad Obermeyer. When patients face a temporary high price for statins, they cut back and some die! “Behavioral hazard” is more dangerous than “moral hazard”.

It has never made sense to me that insurers charge copayments for high value medications for which we know non-adherence is problematic. If a clinician decides a patient needs a medication why are copayments used to force patients to decide whether they really need it?

I’m excited to announce that I’m launching a new non-profit organization today: Renaissance Philanthropy. Renaissance will work with philanthropists to design and implement ambitious efforts leveraging science, technology, and innovation. renaissancephilanthropy.org

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing,” by Chandra (Amitabh Chandra), Flack, and Obermeyer (Ziad Obermeyer): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

A primer on my favorite pessimistic scientific articles abhishaike.com/p/a-primer-on-… lighter reading than usual posts do you like hot takes by scientists? ones that point out the emperors lack of clothes? ive made a list of my favorite ones + my thoughts (2.7k words) 🧵🧵🧵

Great study! …And great to see more natural experiments in medical journals like JAMA Internal Medicine I think a lot of credit goes to Anupam Jena for this trend

Ziad Obermeyer JAMA Internal Medicine Anupam Jena Who’s gonna do the before|after bapu RDD study lol

Exemplary leadership.

Important part of understanding the difference in life expectancy between US and peer nations is that it's driven by higher mortality for the *young*. Elderly Americans have some of the lowest death rates, while in the US ages "25–29 experience death rates nearly 3 times higher"

Excited to share our work on using generative AI tutors in the classroom - we ran a RCT on 1000+ students at a large high school in collaboration with math teachers. We find that students use GenAI as a "crutch," harming their learning: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Interesting thread: 1) crude rule of thumb for estimating lung volume leads to large errors by age, sex, race 2) older Black and SEA women especially get WAY too much air volume in the ICU 3) mortality much higher as a result -->let's get some better metrics of lung volume!

Are race-blind medical algorithms more fair? Not necessarily. See this 🧵by the fabulous Anna Zink, on our new PNASNews paper Then, if you're hiring in health + data, HIRE ANNA—she's on the job market this fall, and she is one of the best people I've ever worked with

Very thoughtful commentary by John Mullahy on our paper with Anna Zink Emma Pierson -- thanks John! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Ziad Obermeyer Anna Zink PNASNews Interesting paper.. look forward to reading.. some of these issues are also discussed in science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It’s kind of wild to me that, as of two weeks ago, there are now 3 large cluster randomized trials across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa showing that giving every kid antibiotics reduces child mortality by ~14% and I don’t see anyone talking about it!