Blog Highlights for 2024

Multiple coders, the oppression of women in Afghanistan, academic job hunting, and the conundrum of being objective in science: These were some of our most-read blog posts in 2024.

Some of these posts go back several years but still rise to the top of our most-clicked posts. Some are new to 2024. All are worth a read.

• Do You Need Multiple Coders? – Danya Keene

• 400 Years of Chains: The Over-policing of Black Bodies and Devaluing of Black Pain – Rashawn Ray

• Science’s Objectivity Conundrum – Chris Bachrach

• Unequal Cities , the first in our book review series – Anna Shetler

• Violation of Health Rights Under Taliban Rule: Impacts on Afghan Women’s Physical and Mental Health – Manizha Ashna

• The Academic Job Hunt: Strategies for Success and Sanity – Claire Altman

• How Do Paid Leave Policies Affect Health, Health Equity, and Ovall Population Health? – Asiya Validova, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Julia Goodman, and Alein Haro-Ramos

• Immigration Policy Is Health Policy: Confronting the Health Costs of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric – Stuti Das

• The Means are Living Above Us Now: Race and Poverty in America – Alexis Smith
  

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