In a conversation with an #OccupationalTherapy grad student months ago, she was telling me about her doctoral research project, which was how climate change may affect homelessness. Which led me down a rabbit hole of research questions we need answers to 🧵
If I had a lab in the community, and unlimited funding, I would be interested in digging into these:
Using geocoding and claims data what can we learn about ICD10 codes for weather exposure -related diagnoses?
Feb 9, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
For Black History Month I wanted to share an interesting story about my own family, dating back to the 1800s. From slaves to free people. 🧵 #TouchTheAncestors #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
My Granny Corrine was born in 1916 in Arkansas to a woman named Cora. Cora was born during reconstruction, raised by a mother and father both born into slavery. Cora's father's name was Thomas, and his father was born in Africa. And that's where our line stops. 1/
Dec 29, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
What a lot of you don't know is that me, my wife, and our two kids had COVID earlier this year. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever been through, and my hopes is that our story can inspire at least one person to wear a mask and distance yourselves. *Thread*
Me and @CEDme are both essential staff. She's in healthcare, and I'm homeless services. We could spend some but not all of our days working from home, which meant that we still needed to send our kids to daycare/camp. One of our kids was exposed at the daycare/camp; day one. 1/?
