MD/PhD Student @UNCmdphd @unchpm @UNCPopCenter (he/him) Work: health/labor econ | pediatrics | mental health Play: cats | birdwatching | native plants | hiking
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined August 2018
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Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now!
But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository
Free to use without restriction!
data.mendeley.com/datasets/s…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
📢 Calling all speakers! Presenting at #PAS2025? Let's amplify the excitement!
🔁Retweet this and share the stage you're set to ignite! 🎤
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
🌊 This Spring, Homer’s Odyssey comes alive with free books, intergenerational talks, public readings, school visits & more—thanks to support from NC Humanities!
📚 Stay tuned via Parr Center or email Dr. Vazquez at the Parr Center to get involved.
#Homer2025 #NCHumanities
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
My dissertation recruitment is live!
🚨Seeking maternal substance use professionals & clinicians in NC & KY!
If you're an agency staff worker, social worker, physician, nurse, NPA, PA, or state-level advocate, join us in a vital group discussion on maternal SUD.
💸 $125 for two, two-hour sessions
📍 Virtual
DM or email lcaton-AT-unc.edu to get involved!
#MaternalHealth #SubstanceUse #NC #KY #PublicHealth #Nursing #Policy #SocialWork
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Join locals in giving to the North Carolina chapter of the American Red Cross to support hurricane relief operations for our neighbors in WNC. You’ll see this poster (with QR code) at the #Carrboro Music Festival today. Or give directly at americanredcross.donordrive.…. #OrangeForWNC
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Finally, the Biden administration is taking a stand against car bloat.
@NHTSAgov has proposed banning SUV & pickup hood designs that are especially likely to cause head injuries.
In @FastCompany, I explained why this could be a watershed moment. 🧵
fastcompany.com/91195993/car…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:
"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."
Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Shelley Duvall (1949—2024) 🖤
ALT A still of Shelley Duvall in 3 Women (1977). She is smiling and holding a cigarette, looking off-camera.
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Huge news: The bill authorizing the Home of the Venus Flytrap specialty license plate was signed into law today by Governor Roy Cooper! 🎉🎉🎉
Here's what to know: ncbg.unc.edu/support/venus-f…
ALT Home of the Venus Flytrap license plate, with a bright, larger than life illustration of Venus flytraps, one of them with fly prey
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
🌟The BHWRC was honored to present at this year's @AcademyHealth conference! #ARM24🌟
Take a look at what we accomplished! (1/8)
ALT Brianna Lombardi, Lisa Zerden, Maria Gaiser, and Danya Krueger standing in front of a poster entitled "Identifying Factors that Retain Peer Recovery Support Specialists in the Behavioral Health Workforce"
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Congrats to @douglaspmackay [@UNCPublicPolicy] & Ana Iltis [@WakeForest] on their new edited book on ethics!
* 45 chapters: All-you-could-want-to-know across multiple fields ~ incl. policy experiments 👏🏾
global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
🚨Federal claims data are critical to efforts to improve spending, quality, and equity in our health care system.
In @JAMA_current, we wrote about how @CMSGov's data policy change may compromise these efforts — and recommended a better path forward.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Congratulations to 2024 Diversity Scholarship recipient @AspaciaStafford, @UNC_econ.
Learn more about the Diversity Scholarship here: ashecon.org/2024-san-diego/2…
Sponsored by @DalioDotOrg, @CedarsSinaiMed, @CommonwealthFnd and @Arnold_Ventures
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
My new open-access paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives argues that the radical 2020 Census disclosure control program was an embarrassing failure. /1
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
More than 700 @UNC signatories now, including a former Chancellor and a Nobel Laureate. Come hear them deliver the letter this afternoon at Peace and Justice plaza on Franklin Street at 3pm!
More than 500 UNC faculty sign petition for amnesty for students suspended after last week's protests wral.com/story/more-than-500…
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
In America today:
- Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white women.
- Black infants are 4x more likely to die from complications due to low birthweight than white infants.
We must pass the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act.
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
Annual 'days at home' (365 days minus days in healthcare) as an outcome for children with medical complexity, could be an important trial endpoint for families, great stuff from MD PhD student, @cweasterly at #pas2024
Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
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Caleb Easterly (@cweasterly.bsky.social) retweeted
UNC Faculty member: “I don’t think I will ever get over what I saw my employer do to its own students and faculty today.” triangleblogblog.com/2024/04…
