Ben WaberI had a relatively traffic-free drive back to Boston today, but I still had a lot of time to listen to some great talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
First was a nice panel on the ecosystems around patent and proprietary medicine vendors at #TechCabal with Michael Alagbile, Victor Benjamin, Emeka Okafor, Charity Abah, and Kwesi Arhin. These vendors aren't formally trained but still provide primary #health services for the majority of the Nigerian population, and the panel discusses providing financing and other services to them in order to improve outcomes in this vital sector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FbONH14q8 (2/5) #healthcare #medicine #Nigeria
Building Innovative & Sustainable Financing For Patent Medicine Vendors
Next was an engaging conversation with José van Dijck about online platforms in public life and attempts to build decentralized, micro #SocialMedia networks on the Reimagining the Internet podcast https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wdWJsaWNpbmZyYXN0cnVjdHVyZS5vcmcvZmVlZC9wb2RjYXN0?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6nPro2-yAAxWmB1kFHQb1AIYQ9sEGegQIARAC (3/5)
Next was an interesting talk by @pantelispa and Alexandros Gelastopoulos on self-reinforcing rankings at @sfiscience. It's long been known that sequential choice and rankings can converge to sub-optimal outcomes, but this talk adds strong guarantees in certain situations about where final rankings will end up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A_32LBpXaw (4/5)
Sequential Choice and Self-Reinforcing Rankings
Last was a slate of talks on intersectional quantitative research at #CRASSH by Heather Shattuck-Heidorn (gender/sex in COVID-19), Sabrina Saase (utility of #intersectionality in quantitative research), and Alexia Pretari (intersectional impact evaluations). Zuzana Dančíková provides an excellent overview discussion as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvxqU7x7U-g&t=4s (5/5) #sociology
