Seth J. Prins

Finding My Grandmother’s Ma’amoul Cookie in Brooklyn: A Story of Palestinian Survival Complete erasure will never be possible – because Palestinians endure. And we will remember. Not just in body, but in memory, in story, in taste.

This is a must-read, haunting piece:

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I'm thrilled to share that I'm joining SUNY Downstate School of Public Health as Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences! I'm grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and collaborators and excited to join a public institution committed to health equity in Brooklyn and beyond.

There's still time to sign up for Advanced R and Intensive R for Epidemiologists!

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Honestly: bought it for the content, keeping it on my desk because it is the cutest little bitty textbook I own. Fun-sized social epi!

Popping on here to do some shilling for Causal Inference and the People's Health! Here's a discount code if you haven't picked up your copy yet! AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic

Thankful for this little break from doom scrolling that just arrived in my mail today. Intermittently doing course prep for the class i teach next quarter and already suspect some nuggets from @sethjprins.bsky.social's book will make it in.
#episky

Can't say enough good things about this book. I recently co-wrote a primer on causal inference for anthropologists and this book addresses the exact tension we struggled with—how to grapple with exposures that are deemed not "manipulable" while incorporating the advances of modern causal inference.

I'm so happy to see my dear friend @sethjprins.bsky.social;;s new book!

When it comes to measuring cause and effect, Seth is one of the clearest, more rigorous thinkers out there. Don't sleep on this text!

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Close up photos of different hands holding a book entitled Causal Inference and the People’s Health, by Sharon Schwartz and Seth J. Prins

It’s here!

Top-20 richest countries

Consider how different global capitalism is from what you'd expect based on standard US & European narratives. Lots to glean from this list of the 20 richest countries.

1/ Link between liberal democracy & capitalist development is incidental. China ranks 2, Russia 11, Saudi Arabia 19.

In a bit of good news: it’s #followfriday!
@epikerrykeyes.bsky.social (mental health, violence, Sud research)
@sethjprins.bsky.social (mass incarceration research)
@kellymdoran.bsky.social (homelessness research)
@drsarahaxelrath.bsky.social (street outreach, sud)

Some of the smartest people I know

Between Slavery and Incarceration: an Interview with Christopher Muller An expert on the history of mass incarceration explains why the Black incarceration rate was lower in the South than in the North for much of the 20th century, why recent decades have witnessed rising...

Excellent interview with the brilliant Chris Muller. lpeproject.org/blog/between...

This ignores the fact that municipalities that eliminated water fluoridation saw surging demand for dental services, which exacerbated pre-existing shortages and access barriers to dental care. It's not either/or, it's BOTH/AND.

It’s also a great illustration of “MD brain” and why having an MD is insufficient (and unnecessary, though sometimes beneficial) for doing good public health policy.

This single issue is a great way to immediately differentiate people who understand what public health is from people who absolutely do not.

Didn't realize this was paywalled. Here's a pdf: drive.google.com/file/d/1FmWC...

6/ Finally, we conclude with reflections on the current juncture that we face, and the role of public health in either upholding, or working to abolish, mass criminalization and incarceration in the United States.

5/ We then document how the vaccine rollout left incarcerated people behind and put them directly and indirectly at increased risk of preventable sickness and death. We summarize ways that police and policing likely exacerbated the pandemic in the most vulnerable communities.

4/ Next, we discuss immediate strategies that could have been taken to prevent unnecessary sickness and death in the criminal legal system and review some of the ineffective and inhumane strategies that were taken instead.

3/ We then document the U.S. response to the pandemic in jails and prisons, from initial warnings to the tragic consequences of inaction.

2/ First, we introduce three ways of thinking about mass incarceration as a racialized system of state violence that structures population health. Second, we review the public health crisis that was already a consequence of mass incarceration before the pandemic.

1/ By April 2020, 8 of the 10 largest Covid hotspots in the United States were prisons or jails. In this chapter, Sandhya Kajeepeta and I examine the intersecting public health crises of mass incarceration and the Covid pandemic. t.co/JqdMN09rWj