Our Top Ten Blog Posts from 2018

Twitter advice for academics, racism, opioids, NIH dissertation awards, deaths of despair, a classic from 2017 on the black death, and several other topics found their way into our most-read blog posts for 2018.

Thank you so much to our Editorial Board and all our authors for helping make our population health blog informative, interesting, and truly interdisciplinary.

• To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Twitter for Academics by Elaine Myers (January 2, 2018)

• The Role of Racism in Health Inequalities by Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz and Margaret Takako Hicken (May 21, 2018) 

• E-Mental Health: Benefits, Limitations, &  the Future  by Mia DeFino (February 20, 2018)

• Making Methods Work to Inform Each Other:  Ana Diez Roux by Chris Bachrach (July 9, 2018)

• Have You Heard About the NIH Dissertation Awards for Doctoral Students Studying Population Health? by Jennifer Ailshire (June 4, 2018)

• Beyond Deaths of Despair: Midlife Mortality from Multiple Causes Rising Across All Racial Groups by Dr. Steven Woolf (September 17, 2018)

•  Digital Skills: A Hidden ‘Super’ Social Determinant of Health (Conference Report) by Amy Sheon (October 15, 2018)

• Medical-Legal Partnerships Bring Health Justice (Interdisciplinary Program Spotlight) by Emily Mendenhall (January 22, 2018) 

• Taking a Population Health Approach to the Opioid Crisis by Marc Gourvitch and Sue Kaplan (February 5, 2018)

• Population Health Lessons from the Black Death by Sharon DeWitte (April 3, 2017)  (Note: Despite being published in 2017, this is still one of our most-read posts.)