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Sends you a notification when a U.S. drone strike is reported in the news. Coded the most recent android framework for Josh Begley's Metadata app. Apple removed the iOS version from the App Store, and it's currently down from Google Play as well. You can see an archive of the Google Play page here.
Unarmed and armed. Grandparents and children. Black and white. How did they die? What were their names?
Android version of the app. Notifies you whenever police kill someone in the United States.
Replaces some words that are predictably used to dehumanize people with different words that are more humanizing.
This app has been used in combination with biomarker data to predict suicidality among people with mental health diagnoses. The project attracted some press.
European-style mental healthcare has had to adapt to West Africa, where traditional healers typically get more respect than psychiatrists.
In hospitals across the USA, emotionally distressed patients are regularly cuffed and strapped to chairs, sometimes for hours. In Guinea this doesn't really happen. What can we learn?
Two French translations published into the public domain for Project Gutenberg. They're available for free and accessible on e-readers.
Baltimore Ceasefire 365 is a locally organized, non-governmental coalition against murder. This analysis has now been published in the American Journal of Public Health. See the final analysis markdown here.
Indianapolis has seen an explosion in lethal Fentanyl overdoses since 2014, overtaking heroin. We obtained data on every lethal overdose in the city for the past 7 years and started modeling these trends using Bayesian multilevel techniques. Now published in Addictive Behaviors.
Community mental health. The social dynamics of psychosis. Psychosocial interventions. Clinical + genetic risk assessment. &c.
peter.phalen@gmail.com
pphalen@som.umaryland.edu