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I'm Still Not Tired - Larkin Callaghan

Larkin Callaghan recently completed her doctorate in health behavior and public health education at Columbia, focusing on women's health and global health development. With research and program experience in HIV and sexual health, social network building, trauma and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and how socioeconomic status and history of abuse contribute to health and social mobility, she specializes in women's and adolescent health, population health, communication and social marketing and the health of vulnerable populations - and how they relate to one another. She also works as a UN Correspondent for MediaGlobal, covering issues affecting the least developed countries, with a not-exclusive focus on global health. She posts about public health, sociology and social justice, human rights, research, and gender. She manages the Reproductive Health Daily Tumblr and is a fellow in Health Communication and Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where she writes and uses social and new media to promote research that focuses on health disparities, access and rights. She’s an avid runner and a California loyalist, and also posts longer opinion pieces on I'm Not Tired Yet at https://larkincallaghan.wordpress.com/.

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CDC’s director, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, on polio eradication.

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We are bundling up like these SHETLAND PONIES IN CARDIGANS and heading out.

Thank you, Waldo Jaquith.

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From a book of photographs and essays about London by Chicago-based writer and photographer Brian Leli. Explaining the project on his website,...

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…I’ll keep on saying it; Senator Bernie Sanders is great!

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Accountability and Credibility

Yesterday, news broke that the NYC cops accused of raping a woman in her East Village apartment had a history of harassing young women while on the job. Interestingly, if you google this, the most trafficked site to report it was Jezebel here in the States; UK Daily Mail also commented on it. The Times didn’t see this as important?

For all the issues of “credibility” that are being brought up against the Sofitel housekeeper who brought charges against DSK, and for all the major news sources that reported on that (google it - major newspapers, major cable news stations, major network news stations) does it not seem a bit odd that a documented history of harassment against a woman, unsubstantiated arrest of this woman, and the blocking of this woman filing a criminal complaint was not seen as important to bring up in the trial against these cops?

Rape victims have their entire sexual histories dredged up and paraded in front of juries in attempts to convince people that a sexually active and expressive woman cannot be raped because she enjoys sex. Their consensual sex life has nothing at all to do with a non-consensual sexual assault. These cops’ documented and reported history of harassment does have relevance in a trial contesting their on the job behavior, treatment of those who seek police officers’ help, and history of actions that indicate a general disrespect for women.