Executive Director of Newcomb Institute and Professor of Public Health at Tulane University. Gender and health equity researcher. Believer that data and collective action can create positive change & frightened no one else believes this anymore.https://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3lkrmbee6y22iHi all! Does anyone know how the decisions are getting made for how much federal funding a university gets cut for supposed infractions? $400M for Columbia. $600M for Hopkins. Now $175M for U Penn.20 Mar 2025 02:04 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkrmbee6y22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3lkmr2rjh722oU.S. leadership in scientific discovery and innovation is at an end. This is not the country my father came to from India as a post-doc in 1968. It is painful to watch every field of science hit with federal funding losses. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2025 03:46 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkmr2rjh722ohttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3likaqmafss2dWas thinking about the words they will flag on NSF grants. We could all just organize and make sure we use at least 10 of the words in every grant submitted. It won’t be hard. Words they have flagged include: “barrier”, “excluded”, and “women”. #solidarityinscience19 Feb 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3likaqmafss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3ld5cfhaq7k2cFor the first time in almost a decade, we will have no women serving as committee chairs in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are qualified Republican women in office. So what happened? https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/men-sweep-congress-chairmanships-as-republican-women-lose-ground12 Dec 2024 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld5cfhaq7k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3lbnitjkq2k2yPeople know that most men don’t have sexual violence allegations or inquiries raised against them, right? The probability of selecting someone who does for a job is low. Yet…23 Nov 2024 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnitjkq2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3lb5za37dx22eHappy to share this new National Academies report from a committee I co-chaired. The work highlights the value of women’s #empowerment policies and programs for #globalhealth and #globaldevelopment, and the research gaps in this area that need to be filled. https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/womens-empowerment-population-dynamics-and-socioeconomic-development17 Nov 2024 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb5za37dx22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3laz6cobzsc2xGreat #facultyjob for a health systems and health equity academic expert. https://www.kaiserpermanentejobs.org/job/pasadena/health-systems-science-educator-faculty-school-of-medicine/641/7047682761615 Nov 2024 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3laz6cobzsc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3laxlzjggfc2fgo.bsky.app/V7yc6qq Anyone want to talk about how academics and researchers can use #genderdata to advance #women’s-equality & #empowerment in the U.S.? It seems more work is needed than even I had anticipated. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Nov 2024 05:04 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxlzjggfc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/anitaraj.bsky.social/post/3laxlraopo22fWell hello, Blue Sky! I hear this is where scientists, journalists, and educators are gravitating, so here I am. Anyone interested in chatting about using #genderdata and #collectiveaction to get our #reprorights back & to end #violenceagainstwomen? Time for civic preparedness my academic friends!15 Nov 2024 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:72kxwp6e62kfhxqldo7bztew/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxlraopo22f