Category: Monthly recap

Teamwork makes the dream work! Collaborative networks in JPHMP

My colleague and I are preparing an article on the use of social media to monitor vaccine outreach that we plan to submit to the Journal of Public Health Management… Read More

Scraping the news for insights

Health equity is a major topic and research focus over the past few years. And with good reason! For those of us who want wellbeing to improve in our communities,… Read More

Using AI to sort through evaluation research

Let’s talk evaluation. I haven’t done a summary of evaluation in a long time, and since we’re dialing up a really big project with our friends at RISE, it’s as… Read More

Another 31 Days of Health Equity!

It’s been a while since I wrote one of these summaries. Chalk it up to new projects, new opportunities, and a lack of time to simply sit down and do… Read More

What’s going on in Health Equity?

Our analysis of the recent trends in academic articles, news articles and tweets.

Three Sources of Community Psychology Updates that didn’t work (and one that did)

The really important community work happens in the community, not the laboratory. To get a more robust picture of the state of community-based research and action, we’ve started looking more… Read More

The Month in Suicide Research (and Reporting)

For those of us who straddle between research and practice, it may not be enough to keep abreast of the scientific literature. It’s important, of course–PubTrawlr was founded on that… Read More

Climate, COVID, Abortion: the month in health equity

Cutting-edge health equity research doesn’t just happen in scientific journals. There’s a vibrant community of practitioners, advocates, and community members with lived experience working towards better health and wellbeing for… Read More

Journals! Twitter! Newspapers! Oh my! The month in community psychology

For a recent post on Suicide Research, we broadened our data horizon considerably. In addition to pulling in the academic research, we also looked at the discussion on Twitter and… Read More

Reddit, Twitter, and more: August in Suicide Research

For August, we went a little deeper in the whole “discourse space” on suicide. In addition to the scan of the published academic literature and Twitter trends, we also pulled… Read More

Catching up with…Health Equity: July 2021

North American Summer is a strange time. We expect things to slow down. We expect fewer meetings because people will be on vacation. Because of that, I wrongly expected that… Read More

The dog days of COVID – July in Community Psychology

The dog days of summer can be a blessing to many who straddle the academic world. Here — finally — is the spaciousness to read, write, unwind, upwind, do all… Read More