Spatial epidemiologist, cat dad, and goofball. Manage the data team @ City Health Dashboard. Opinions = mine, RT ≠ endorsement. He/him
New York City
Joined November 2014
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Really enjoyed working on this with @usama_bilal. Hopefully @NACCHOalerts and other find it useful!
Our COVID Local Risk Index has been validated as a tool for assessing city & neighborhood risk of COVID infection and severity. Check out our paper in Health and Place, & thanks to @DrexelUHC & @usama_bilal on the validation collaboration. bit.ly/3NvYbqK!
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Featuring work by @DovileVilda @RRHDr @maeveellen @BenjaminSpoer @ProfGThurston @AndreaWestbyMD @VenceBonham @chris_delcher @RohmDeborah @drbobsallis @vfung10 @ESwedoMD @MattKasman @mack_shelley @AdinaHazzouri @DrMSaraiya @AlyssaHarlow @MichaelJBlaha @EmeliaBenjamin @astokespop..
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New on the Dashboard: firearm homicides & firearm suicides data. Publicly available for the first time at the city-level, these data highlight the grim toll guns take on hundreds of U.S. cities.
Explore data for your community:
cityhealthdashboard.com/?&ut…
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In September: Higher median income correlated with lower #walkability among neighborhoods with majorities of all racial/ethnic groups except majority Black ones, where lower-income areas had lowest walkability.
bit.ly/3DfqbKM
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ALT a n older couple walk with a white fluffy dog behind their school-aged granddaughters, who are running ahead of them
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SORRY I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND HOW PUBLIC HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY LONG STANDING GOAL OF PUTTING MY ENTIRE MOUTH ON EVERY GAS STATION DOORKNOB IN THE STATE
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A new metric is available for the Dashboard’s 500 largest cities. The COVID Local Risk Index leverages rigorous, hyperlocal data to help identify cities & neighborhoods that are at risk of higher numbers of & more severe #COVID cases. cityhealthdashboard.com
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You can’t “reform” this.
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Breaking: NYS Judge James Burke rules NYPD can now keep anyone (peaceful protestors arrested for curfew and criminal looters) detained for over 24 hours given these are extraordinary times. “It’s a crisis within a crisis", he said. "All writs are denied, BK, BX and manhattan"
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Leaders who have hidden in a bunker and gassed their own citizens include Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump
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This is probably the most impactful picture I have ever taken.
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #LongBeach #LongBeachProtest #BlackLivesMatter – at Long Beach, CA
Im which @nytimes publishes a map that makes protests look like an outbreak of the pox. Symbology matters, friends #BLM #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #maps #dataviz
To my new fitness watch, which keeps bugging me to walk around every hour:
Do you know it’s actually illegal to walk around too much right now‽
Please stop reminding me of my indolence.
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When developing programs & policies, having accurate data to be guided by is vital. With new Dashboard pages, 250+ cities will have access to local data that many lacked before. Learn more about how the Dashboard can support the response to COVID19 cityhealthdashboard.com/stor…
#coronavirus date night:
Ben: if you were a spice girl, which one would you be?
@AlyTadros: Spooky Spice!
Ben: that’s not a spice girl
Aly: oh. ...Spunky spice!
Ben: 🙃🙃🙃
SCENE: End of week one of social distancing
Ben: *inaudible*
@AlyTadros : “What?”
Ben: “Sorry, I was talking to the pizza.”
Doing great, how about you guys?
#SocialDistancing #COVID19
