@JacobBor

Population health science, health economics, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, US health disparities

 Boston, MA
sites.bu.edu/jbor
Joined September 2012
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Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021". nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opini…

Opinion | Why Is America Such a Deadly Place? (Published 2023)

A study found millions of Americans would be alive if our mortality rates matched our economic peers’.

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Why aren't we doing this, South Africa? Poverty alleviation interventions work.
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The "Missing Americans" offers another way to look at the U.S. mortality disadvantage, which often focuses on differences in life expectancy, e.g.: @shwoolf ajph.aphapublications.org/do…

Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries,...

Objectives. To document the evolution of the US life expectancy disadvantage and regional variation across the US states. Methods. I obtained life expectancy estimates in 2022 from the United...

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Kudos and appreciation for my co-authors @DrMaryTBassett @JuliaRaifman @astokespop @atheendar @himmelhandler @swoolhandler @BUSPH
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Jacob Bor retweeted
Jon Levy@jonlevyBU21 Feb 2023
1. Thank you to @BostonGlobe for continuing to shine a light on COVID and its impacts on mortality and morbidity. Since the shift in racial/ethnic patterns of deaths is perhaps a bit surprising, I want to walk through our findings and some hypotheses. 🧵 bostonglobe.com/2023/02/20/m…

COVID is still killing people every day. But its main victims have changed. - The Boston Globe

Since the end of the first Omicron wave last March, white people in Massachusetts are more likely to die from COVID than Black or Hispanic people.

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It is also terrible national security policy. Anyone here feel safer knowing we are doing next to nothing to protect livelihoods and mitigate the climate refugee crisis?
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But that’s just more future business for the weapons manufacturers… v happy for their shareholders today. Ugh.
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Let me get this straight: Congress is planning $858B for military and $1B for climate aid to poor countries. A giant FU to the worlds poor who are already impacted by climate change of our making.
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This is terrible policy on ethical grounds.
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That wastewater trend is not good at all. No idea what the peak will be but there seems to have been a significant increase in transmission in the last week or so. Any good explanations?
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1000s in Franklin Park today for free vaccine event. Major props to ⁦@BPHC⁩ ⁦@OjikutuBisola⁩ ⁦@MayorWu⁩ for this effort!
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**New Faculty Opening** in our department. (See links below.) BU School of Public Health is a great place to work; DM me if you want to chat about it. (NB: I am not on the search committee.)
Sandro Galea@sandrogalea16 Aug 2022
We are currently running searches for faculty roles in our Environmental and Global Health departments. We look forward to welcoming new community members. @BUSPH spr.ly/6011zCYvb (Environmental Health) spr.ly/6012zCYvj (Global Health)
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Despite the eastern MA drought, the tomatoes have been resilient!
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#UequalsU in the house @AIDS2022
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HE2RO_RSA@HE2RO_SA30 Jul 2022
Intuit-SA team, @JacobBor and Dorina Onoya with @BR999 at the @AIDS_conference. #AIDS2022 #AIDS2022Engage #HE2RO@AIDS2022
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I can't help but feel we are witnessing the results of long-term strategy to "divide and rule." As if there are two sides. As if choosing one or the other would save us. Exceptional. Grateful to @busph colleagues @JacobBor. The amazing @edyong209 reports: theatlantic.com/health/archi…

America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID

Even before the pandemic began, more people here were dying at younger ages than in comparably wealthy nations.

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