TDr. Linda Maepa
@lmaepa.medsky.network
Sangoma, IFS/IFIO therapist, farmer, educator
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿
I study & teach: African healthcare systems, Internal Family Systems therapy, African Traditional Medicine, Biogeosciences, Planetary Health
Me: @GogoPebetse.org, lmaepa.blacksky.app
Bapedi 🐊 & emaSwati 🙏🏾📿
I study & teach: African healthcare systems, Internal Family Systems therapy, African Traditional Medicine, Biogeosciences, Planetary Health
Me: @GogoPebetse.org, lmaepa.blacksky.app
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How worried should we be about the absence of CIP Code 51.2201 (MPH & DPH degrees) from the Department of Education's revised list?
ED Issues New List of Professional Degrees After Court Order https://bit.ly/440YLqT
June 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
How worried should we be about the absence of CIP Code 51.2201 (MPH & DPH degrees) from the Department of Education's revised list?
Reposted by TDr. Linda Maepa
Obligatory share of my 1st longform reported story, which connects food apartheid to disordered eating patterns in BIPOC LGBTQIA+ communities, which includes interviews with Professor Sabrina Strings, Professor Tara Maudrie, Karen Washington, Patrilie Hernandez, etc: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...
June 29, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Obligatory share of my 1st longform reported story, which connects food apartheid to disordered eating patterns in BIPOC LGBTQIA+ communities, which includes interviews with Professor Sabrina Strings, Professor Tara Maudrie, Karen Washington, Patrilie Hernandez, etc: prismreports.org/2023/09/13/b...
"I hypothesize that formal BMI cutoffs produce discontinuous increases in provider stigma...This, in turn, may lead to discontinuous changes in provider behavior and patient outcomes. This paper presents a body of evidence supporting this hypothesis."
Adapted from @vinisingh.bsky.social
Adapted from @vinisingh.bsky.social
Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277
June 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"I hypothesize that formal BMI cutoffs produce discontinuous increases in provider stigma...This, in turn, may lead to discontinuous changes in provider behavior and patient outcomes. This paper presents a body of evidence supporting this hypothesis."
Adapted from @vinisingh.bsky.social
Adapted from @vinisingh.bsky.social
Reposted by TDr. Linda Maepa
Funding pledges for Ebola outbreak almost halved, Africa CDC says reut.rs/3Rs8cN4
Funding pledges for Ebola outbreak almost halved, Africa CDC says
Funding pledges to contain the fast-growing Ebola outbreak in Africa have almost halved since Monday, the continent's main health body said on Thursday.
reut.rs
May 28, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Funding pledges for Ebola outbreak almost halved, Africa CDC says reut.rs/3Rs8cN4
Full issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17520606...
Thrilled to share the new JMFT special issue I co-edited with Dr. DeAnna Harris-McKoy: "Systemic Therapy With People of Color." 11 articles applying a strength-based, liberatory framework to therapy with communities of color, on their own terms.
Read it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Read it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Introduction to the Special Issue: Systemic Therapy With People of Color
This special issue brings together 11 theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative articles that apply a strength-based, liberatory framework to systemic therapy with people of color. Collectively, the....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Full issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17520606...