Bruce Ramphal
@ramphalbruce
from the bronx. med student. researching structural inequality and mental health
What happens when your landlord is a corporation? Our students spent a year investigating the circumstances of such an arrangement. 🔎 Their findings are disturbing. Read the exposé below. nycitynewsservice.com/2024/07/08/whe…
📰🧵 New @BostonGlobe story on how eviction affects mental + physical health #MaPoli Why should we allow corporate landlords to evict us for profit and hurt our communities!? Let's pass rent control in MA & build communities where our families can thrive! homesforallmass.org/act
New law signed: Medicaid now covers doula services for New Yorkers. There will be a statewide directory of doulas as well. This legislation was introduced by Sen. Brouk due to high maternal mortality rates, especially among Black women.
If you think that most people who participate in NYC rent protests are young millennials/college students, you’re wrong. It’s a lot of seniors. Angry about being priced out of NYC/ having to move in with their GenX/millennial children. 1 in 4 homeless ppl in the U.S. are 55+
grateful for this opportunity to share the personal experiences that inspire and inform my research :~)
HMS student Bruce Ramphal, who witnessed housing crises as a child, leads an analysis that sheds light on the trauma of losing one’s home hvrd.me/cWO150Oh1ZF
What an exciting week! Mentored by @ChadMSylvester, our outstanding undergrad, Bruce Ramphal, published his first author paper!! He found that brain connectivity in newborns varied with socioeconomic status and predicted mental health at age 2 years. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Our awesome RA, Bruce Ramphal, has his paper out now! He examined expected negative correlations between age (5-25 years) and amygdala-vmPFC connectivity as a function of neighborhood #SES. 🧠
New paper out! "Associations between Amygdala-Prefrontal Functional Connectivity and Age Depend on Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status" #ebblab Here is the link: academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/ar…