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Ashwin Vasan MD, PhD Profile picture
Ashwin Vasan MD, PhD
@ashvasnyc
NYC Health Commissioner; Dad x 3, riding the parenting wave. Prof @Columbia; was @PIH,@WHO,@fountainhouse; Doc, Epidemiologist; amateur cook; personal account
May 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
There’s never been a more important time to center mental health care in New York City. New Yorkers are in pain; none of us left the last two years emotionally unscathed. Today, I joined @HenryStreet to discuss NYC's plan to address mental health: 🧵 The pandemic's effects have not been experienced equally; communities of color are feeling the impact most acutely. That has made access to mental health care all the more critical. We’ve neglected mental health for far too long; we can and must do more.
Apr 30, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
A little over 18 months ago, I came to @fountainhouse because I believed that people with mental illness deserve to have every opportunity to live healthy, safe, long lives in the community, and not in hospitals, on the street, isolated at home, or behind bars... THREAD This belief came from yrs as an epidemiologist+public health leader fighting preventable suffering of vulnerable people, knowing 13M ppl in our country live and battle w serious mental illness; by my clinical practice, struggling to deliver the best care to pts with SMI...
Nov 3, 2020 • 19 tweets • 10 min read
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 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
Oct 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
#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