Leading Public Health in Turbulent Times: Public Health Week — UC Davis Health Department of Public Health Sciences #CharacterMatters #PublicHealthWeek #LeadershipMatters
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Value-Focused Thinking and Decision-Making: A superpower for decisive, values-based leadership
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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."
--- Raymond Williams, Keywords.
Inspiring quote that was shared today by Sir Michael Marmot at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Faculty meeting.
"Mientras uno está vivo uno debe amar lo más que pueda". ... "No, no te puedo olvidar. No, no te puedo borrar. Tú me enseñaste a querer. Me enseñaste a bailar."
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The surprising ways cannabis may affect the aging brain.
As more states legalize recreational marijuana use, here’s what the research says about what cannabis is really doing to your brain.
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The inaugural John Swartzberg lecture series with CDPH Officer Dr. Erica Pan!
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A screenshot showing: Introduction These are notes for my class on probability models. In these notes, I walk through the concepts and computation that support modern probability modeling in political science using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches. The Goal There are many excellent books on probability models. But I felt the need to write my own. Why? I saw three problems. First, some classes assign a huge textbook. It might be possible for the strongest and most motivated students to become familiar with the range of topics covered in these textbook, but impossible to master. Instead, these textbooks seem like references, something you’re supposed to constantly be referring back to throughout your career. I know this because many of these books have instructors’ guides that suggest what should be covered in a single semester, what should be skipped, and how one might jump around. Instead, I want a book that students can work through beginning to end and master each idea. Second, some classes assign a variety of sections from several books and a collection of articles. But then the story told in the readings isn’t coherent. The styles are changing, the author’s tastes are changing, and the notation is changing. Switching among authors can feel like whiplash when learning a difficult subject. Instead, I want a book that tells a continuous story with consistent style, tastes, and notation. Third, some classes assign readings that support the lecture material, without exact alignment between the two. For better or worse, the content covered by the instructor in class feels like the most important material. Thus, I want a book that exactly aligns with the material I cover in class.
You guys @carlislerainey.bsky.social has a free textbook online and it seems really useful pos5747.github.io/notes/
The "Groan Zone" of Group Decision Making -- Completed Facilitator's Workshop by "Community At Work". #TEAMPublicHealth #DecisionIntelligence
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From #YourLocalEpidemiologistCA leader --- Dr. Matt Willis :
Pandemic anniversary reality check --- Why we shut down the Bay Area six years ago-- and why revising that history puts us at risk
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Are you Heat Ready, California?
Heat is deadlier than any other weather hazard. Be prepared for extreme heat events and find resources to help you stay safe.
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"Kids don’t need to learn prompt engineering ... They need a holistic understanding of AI — ... how it works and how it affects learning. ... [how] AI supercharges their learning and when it stunts it. None of this requires more time on screens."
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"Teenagers Have Easy Access to Cannabis. Science Says It’s Bad for Them."
New research shows even infrequent marijuana use during adolescence is linked to increased risk of mental-health disorders and poor performance in school
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"Effort is the Algorithm -- How AI can make you smarter and dumber." Rewiring our brain for learning and improving requires positive cognitive load #TEAMPublicHealth
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Wonderful, informative piece by Dr. Matt Willis, CA YLE leader, former health officer of Marin County.
The test of open dialogue -- In the face of Jay Bhattacharya as the new CDC Director
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Facing or struggling with an important decision? We want to hear from you. Take this 2-question survey. We are developing free content to support your decision quality. Remember, "decisions determine destiny." #TEAMPublicHealth
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PDSA for problem solving, decision quality, A3 thinking, RBA, and more: The Swiss Army knife for scientific reasoning, learning, and improving
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Introducing "Decision Intelligence 4 Health" website for learning decision modeling. #TEAMPublicHealth #DecisionIntelligence
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"The only thing more powerful than hate is love."
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We need to bring together
- neuroscience
- learning science
- artificial intelligence
Top learning techniques
- Retrieval
- Spacing
- Generation
- Reflection
These techniques promote "productive struggle" which is necessary for learning.
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Artificial intelligence will make important contributions to public health decision making, but humans will always need to be "in the loop" as decision architects.
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A Consequence Table (CT) is a simple way to organize your thinking around a single decision with multiple choices (eg, choosing a school to attend). CTs were popularized by decision science pioneers. #TEAMPublicHealth #DecisionIntelligence
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"As Trump withdraws the U.S. from the World Health Organization, California has become the first and only state to join a WHO-coordinated global outbreak response network — strengthening rapid detection and response to emerging public health threats." #ILoveCalifornia
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Decision makers manage two dimensions of decision competence: organizational complexity and analytical complexity. On this GitHub page we focus on decision analysis using data science languages such as R and Julia. Feed welcomed! #TEAMPublicHealth #DecisionIntelligence
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Decision Intelligence 4 Health -- DEEP decision making under constraints (Presentation delivered to the Health Officers Association of California (HOAC))
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Bayes' theorem and decision analysis for mortals -- Transforming data into information, knowledge, and wisdom - Part 3 #TEAMPublicHealth #DecisionIntelligence
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#TEAMPublicHealth introduced #Stoicism and Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics (NAVE) for #CharacterMatters. How do they differ? Stoicism is practical #CBT and believes that good character is necessary and sufficient for a good life. To learn more visit teampublichealth.substack.com/t/character
