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THREAD Pre-2016, aside from voting and protesting the Iraq War, I would not have characterized myself as “politically engaged”.
Like many I know in public health/global health, esp in academia, I felt like my work spoke for itself, and that I was “on the right side of things” 1/n
Like many I know in public health/global health, esp in academia, I felt like my work spoke for itself, and that I was “on the right side of things” 1/n
But inspired by friends like .@AbdulElSayed, I saw working in health could also mean public service. So I left the tenure track and went to @nycHealthy in 2016 where we built work at the intersxn of health, care, and policy failures like the justice system and homelessness 2/n
We accomplished a lot in a short time, but I also saw how smart technocrats were forced into poor strategy and poor choices by political decisions and resource allocation made by electeds with little knowledge and even less interest in the health impact of their decisions 3/n
#WalterWallace was shot by police in front of his mother. Cathy Wallace told them about her son’s existing mental illness and begged them not to kill him. This has to stop. We need a health response to a mental health emergency, not law enforcement.
People living with mental illness, especially people of color, are overrepresented in deadly encounters with law enforcement. When are we going to change this? #WalterWallace
Research shows that almost
one in four police shootings involve someone with mental illness.
one in four police shootings involve someone with mental illness.
