Totally agree, Thomas Cudjoe! Looking forward to this read, Vivek Murthy — Thanks also for raising awareness thru your recent appearance on Hidden Brain: 🔗npr.org/2020/04/20/838… #Loneliness #PublicHealth #GeroTwitter [📸 Dec 2018, AtlanticLIVE’s #AtlanticLoneliness]

If you've ever heard this statistic below ("...1 in 4..."), FYI the reference comes from work published by Thomas Cudjoe & colleagues at Johns Hopkins Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology! Check out the original paper here: 🔗academic.oup.com/psychsocgeront… via Gerontological Society of America (GSA) #isolationandloneliness #GeroTwitter

📣 #BMCPublicHealth is delighted to announce the launch of its new collection 'Loneliness and Social Isolation', Guest Edited by Feifei Bu Feifei Bu UCL and Michelle H. Lim Michelle Lim Submit your paper by 31 October 2023! bit.ly/3XL8w7G

Sarah Szanton Haera Han Thomas Cudjoe Safiyyah Okoye Laura Samuel Laura Mata López Hopkins Nursing Teresa N. Brockie

With poetry, wisdom, and love the inimitable Kimberly D. Manning, MD inspired the Dept of Medicine Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine and honored guests at the 19th Annual Myron Weisfeldt Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Diversity. Such a thrill to meet Dr. Manning in person!!! 🤩 Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity

NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on the epidemic of loneliness and isolation facing our country, the destructive impacts it has on our collective health, and the extraordinary healing power of our relationships. Surgeongeneral.gov/loneliness #Connect2Heal 1/8

This is an important step in effort to advance #socialconnection. Kudos Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General. Happy to have contributed. Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness

Check out the Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General Advisory here. Lots of opportunities for us all to work to advance social connection and Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness

Great to work with Harry O Taylor Dr. Michelle Lim Feifei Bu & BMC Public Health on “ The state of loneliness and social isolation research: current knowledge and future directions” bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Submit manuscripts bit.ly/3XL8w7G by 31 October 2023

Off the press: Social isolation is linked to a threefold increase in the odds of smoking. Social isolation is a risk factor for mortality but it’s unclear why. This is one possible pathway. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37278019/ #socialisolation Gilbert Gimm Thomas Cudjoe Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS)

In a national sample, social isolation doubled the odds of nursing home placement over the next two years. Check out our article JAMA Internal Medicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… #socialisolation #loneliness Health and Retirement Study cc: Thomas Cudjoe Gilbert Gimm Alison Cuellar Ashwin Kotwal

Today our joint book on #loneliness and #isolation in #old age has been published by Routledge Books (open access): doi.org/10.4324/978100… Taylor & Francis Research Insights, e.g., with fantastic chapters from Razak M. Gyasi Ph.D., PD. Maike Luhmann @realTillKaiser Liang-Kung Chen Thomas Cudjoe Vanessa Burholt Dr. Snorri Rafnsson PhD PGCHE FHEA

Thrilled to receive my first NIH notice of award as a tenure-track assistant professor!!! I am screaming, dancing, & still in shock about this R21 😆 but mostly looking forward to moving this work forward with my amazing Co-I and mentor Olga Jarrín Montaner, PhD, RN, FAAN

The importance of #socialconnection has now garnered even greater attention from World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General Thank you for your leadership.

🙏🏽 Sally Abrahms AARP reviews #Carehaus, the US’s 1st care-based cohousing project I founded w Rafi Segal #ErnstValery. ✨Advisors Ai-jen Poo Ellen Lupton Sarah Szanton Thomas Cudjoe Jen van der Meer Emmanuel Opati Bonnielin Swenor PhD #aging #housing #care aarp.org/caregiving/hom…

Have you seen this? Jessica Colburn, MD & David Hurwitz, MD, MBA share their views on how #tech & #AI could benefit #OlderAdults in this #WhatMattersMost video. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=IzJ9El… JHU AI/Tech & Aging Hopkins Med News Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine JohnsHopkinsBayview

Our summer interns learning about medicine and health care finished today 😊 And, I was able to meet one of their parents today and made it clear they have an amazing child destined for big things 🥹 Invest in youth! And in the community that fosters the best for them!