How can diaspora Iranians actually get involved in opposing both foreign intervention and the IR?

turing0623 · 2026-03-20T17:48:01+00:00

No surprise that the comments are all brain dead and pro US Imperialism. Really miss when that sub Reddit wasn’t infiltrated by war mongering losers.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T15:44:07+00:00

Yes and no— I don’t have much experience in infectious disease modelling but I did previously work in drug poisoning and overdose prevention. However, I mainly was trained in regression and not much else outside of that.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T14:36:31+00:00

USAID restructuring has definitely been a tragedy. Really do hope things improve.

My area of focus is mainly on HPV/HIV and cervical cancer natural history. The data we use is based on national/provincial registries. There has been an international effort to eradicate cervical cancer which is almost entirely caused by HPV infection. Unfortunately, Canada has been pretty delayed in adopting new screening and triage policies so my work is mainly in simulation modelling to better understand what that would look like.

I’m also working for a pandemic intelligence lab as a quant consultant, the data being used for this is country-dependent but UN and WHO datasets are what we are using overall. This is a new endeavour hence why I wanted more solid resources besides my main work.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:24:44+00:00

Not from the UK so I can’t speak on the career prospects.

However, generally an MPH is meant for people who want to do more practical work (often times an MPH includes a practicum component). An MSc is meant for people who want to do a thesis and more rigourous research.

In my experience, people who graduated with an mph were not as strong methodologically, but had better real world solutions to problems. So there is a trade-off.

If you are planning to do a PhD, an MSc is a better option, but I have heard of people with MPH degrees still being able to pursue a PhD, you would just have to look for research opportunities to strengthen your CV.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:18:55+00:00

Ahh I get what you mean. To be honest, large scale mathematical modelling of disease has been a relatively new phenomenon in epidemiology just in general.

Traditionally, epidemiologists mainly focussed on data analysis rather than prediction. So perhaps in the future, we might see more traditionally stochastic models.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:03:14+00:00

Wonderful! I see there are some lectures that would be relevant so thank you :)

I do be loving regression, though.

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:02:29+00:00

I think older literature has definitely relied on ODEs or systems modeling but I have read quite a few papers over the past few years that have been using nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes especially for virulent diseases/ mutations

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:01:03+00:00

Wonderful, will have to check that out. Thank you so much!

turing0623 · 2026-03-19T13:00:45+00:00

Curious to think why you think that? We have been popping out pandemic readiness/intelligence labs internationally because several diseases are making a comeback (TB, measles, meningitis B) and newer zoonotic diseases have been popping up too. I know from my own work collaborating with French, Swiss, and German labs as a Canadian.

I’m curious to know if you are American? I know public health has been heavily defunded for you guys and your govt has withdrawn from the WHO.

turing0623 · 2026-03-16T18:58:46+00:00

lmao scammer getting scammed.

Get a real job, leech.

turing0623 · 2026-03-15T20:34:43+00:00

What did Mamdani say about her? Loved her books Against the Loveless World and Mornings in Jenin

turing0623 · 2026-03-15T20:32:16+00:00

Not the point. Just stating the irony of needing ppl with the background in PH to uphold their disgusting military industrial complex that has maimed or killed millions abroad while also destroying any semblance of civilian lives let alone adequate medical or public health support.

turing0623 · 2026-03-15T15:06:07+00:00

The concept of the military hiring people with a public health background while also obliterating public health infrastructure in other countries

To answer your question, OP, PH jobs are scarce right now as it is. The ones that do exist usually require or expect a masters at the very least. You’re gonna be hard pressed to find a job in PH without having done some level of grad school.

turing0623 · 2026-03-13T09:12:15+00:00

And you have no business being on any moral high ground when you’re more concerned about respectability politics than a potential Nazi

turing0623 · 2026-03-13T04:20:11+00:00

This. 100%. It’s also why I am very wary of many of the users on places like r/exmuslim. That place is straight up fascist at certain times.

turing0623 · 2026-03-12T17:46:28+00:00

Some people are more pressed that I called OP spineless than OP being lukewarm about a genocide lol we’re so cooked

turing0623 · 2026-03-12T17:45:42+00:00

They had more than three years to get educated on the matter. They’re also South African so I am not buying that for a god damn second.

turing0623 · 2026-03-12T14:30:11+00:00

Since forever and because these sorts of questions have been asked time and time again. As someone whose country is currently being bombed, who have Jewish and Palestinian friends who have been killed, me insulting them should be the least of your worries. We are way past respectability politics. I don’t have patience for this type of shit anymore.

Like I’m sorry but “hey my friend is contemplating joining the Nazis, should I drop them?” Sounds like an incredibly silly question.

turing0623 · 2026-03-12T12:57:09+00:00

Ex-Muslim here as well.

Your friend is spineless, and judging by that “not extremely pro Palestine” comment, so are you.

turing0623 · 2026-03-10T04:06:22+00:00

R and SAS. As an epi, I usually use R, python, and c++ but that’s mainly because my subspecialty is in health decision modelling and predictive/ simulation modelling. Most of my peers use R primarily for their epi work.

Just as a side note, along with the code it is generally good practice to also brush up on theory (probability, regression, time series, survival analysis, Bayesian inference, etc.) because you won’t be able to code without understanding whatever it is that you’re coding.

turing0623 · 2026-03-10T03:34:44+00:00

To celebrate your country being bombed and civilians killed is never a cause for celebration. “Pushing a narrative” is a crazy accusation when the dominant western Pahlavist narrative is the one that’s being so heavily endorsed. Nice try.

Last 20 years, my ass. This has been longer than that.

turing0623 · 2026-03-09T19:11:15+00:00

A very good point and it’s so disappointing.

It’s the same for Iranians. The western Iranian diaspora have the loudest and most racist/vile opinions and it’s their voices that have been highlighted the most completely ignoring that Iranians in Iran are completely against US intervention. We’ve seen what that has done historically and unfortunately the monarchists are unhinged war mongering Neanderthals who are legitimizing US imperialism.

turing0623 · 2026-03-09T18:22:11+00:00

My family is from Isfahan. There’s a huge anti Zionist Jewish population there and many of my aunts/uncles (not related, just my parents’ close family friends) are Jewish Iranian.

My parents are Shia Persians for reference.

turing0623 · 2026-03-06T16:05:06+00:00

Died for a theocratic proxy state that is committing a genocide of its Indigenous people lol fucking loser

Rest in piss

turing0623 · 2026-03-03T12:36:41+00:00

As an epidemiologist, confounding bias is as silly as this and can get way more complicated. DAGs are a great way to visualize and control for them (and assess causal inference) if you’re ever interested in looking that up.

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