In 2019, the no. of smokers worldwide ⬆️ to 1.1 billion. Tobacco smoking caused ~8 million deaths—1 in 5 male deaths. #GBD studies of 204 countries highlight the enormous health toll of 🚬 and authors urge all countries to do more to ⬇️ tobacco use. See hubs.ly/H0Pd0590.

🚭 On #WorldNoTobaccoDay, read 3 NEW studies in The Lancet and The Lancet Public Health, in partnership with Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), that lay bare the global scale of smoking and attributable disease burden. Read all 3 studies on our GBD hub: hubs.ly/H0Pd0590, and explore the thread below ⬇️

healthdata.org/acting-data/co… A compilation of the work from our team coming out for #WorldNoTobaccoDay. Highlights: ✨3✨ manuscripts in The Lancet and The Lancet Public Health! ✨3✨ Think Global Health posts! And a plethora of supporting media including short videos and infographics.

🚨I wrote about how individualism is still sabotaging the pandemic response, and how it has been accentuated by vaccinations & the CDC’s recent guidance. Our collective problem still exists & has been even more heavily shifted onto the most vulnerable. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

“…leaders have failed to consider how the changing COVID guidelines affect America’s essential workers who face daily exposure to individuals who are not vaccinated & refuse to wear masks. When workers are forced to play mask & vaccination police, they put their lives at risk”

Racial, ethnic disparities in #COVID19 vaccination coverage. "Monitoring vaccination rates is critical to intervention, and we hope this work drives progress toward equity," says PhD student Marissa Reitsma of SHP collaboration with KFF on disparities. scopeblog.stanford.edu/2021/07/01/rac…

New data from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and similar findings from World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF find that millions of children have missed out on vaccinations due to #COVID19. Our The Lancet study gives context to the "now", and traces progress in child vaccination from 1980-2019: bit.ly/2TcX2xM 1/

Is high vx coverage enough to prevent #COVID spread in prisons that return to pre-pandemic norms? Our paper (with Elizabeth (Liz) Chin Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social Fernando Alarid-Escudero & others) exploring this question is out today in The Lancet Public Health: doi.org/10.1016/S2468-… The answer: probably not 👇

Important work by Elizabeth (Liz) Chin and the SC-COSMO team ⬇️

Thank you @CJASN for publishing our paper, “Racial Disparities in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation under the new Kidney Allocation System in the United States.” And thanks to my co-authors including Jill Krissberg, @anshalgupta10, Eran Bendavid, & Xingxing Cheng, MD MS