🧵 1/14 The WHO "Best Buys" have been effective but underutilised. Our paper @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social introduces "Quick Buys"—cost-effective interventions that show measurable public health impact within 5 years. w/ David Stuckler, @gauden.bsky.social and other colleagues at WHO EURO

Lancet Commission that I have contributed to over the past 2y reported today, proposing a definition of a new entity: clinical obesity, the fraction of obesity that is a disease in its own right, not just an intermediate condition or a risk factor for other diseases www.thelancet.com/commissions/...

It’s taken a while but so glad @obshealth.bsky.social has moved here. I would say it but if you are at all interested in health systems and policy you really do need to follow eurohealthobservatory.who.int

Dawn at Amerikaplads, Copenhagen from Adina Apartments

1/8 All countries in Europe face nursing shortages. The issue isn't so much training more, it's keeping those we have. Our new European Observatory policy brief asks what can be done (supported by Horizon Europe MAGNET4EUROPE project) eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...

Our new review is published: “Alcohol consumption increases female breast cancer risk, even for women who consume one drink per day.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spread the good news! Thanks @ourworldindata.org

So many applications to public health here. Thanks @allendowney.bsky.social for pointing out the release of the @ourworldindata.org API. Rushing to try this out…

this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗

@elstorreele.bsky.social has a new essay on the intersection between innovation and equity. www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/cri... Powerful practical recommendations on reclaiming innovation for population health, highly relevant to our work developing a European innovation strategy in 2025.

We are excited to release our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health @healthpromint.bsky.social You can read the Editorial here! academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... And access all papers in the special issue here - with more to be added soon! academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...

The CDOH special issue at @healthpromint.bsky.social has just been launched! The Editorial launching the series states that we must be led by the evidence on the risk to public health goals that engagement with harmful commercial actors poses! academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

I have written, with Lea Castro, on the tactics of corporate actors — fear, funds, fronts among them. Here is a great summary of fear and intimidation used as a tactic by industry.

Happy to see @who-global.bsky.social here

Among the many innovative features listed in this article, I find the use of a custom domain both easy and useful. By connecting an account to a personal domain and website, it acts as a means of verification that is more meaningful than any check mark, paid or unpaid! Congrats @bsky.app

And three similarly great lists in global health.

Great starter pack in Europe’s health. Just hit “Follow All”.

I had fun making a mock-serious video opening speech for a health innovation session at the 17th European Public Health Conference on 14 Nov 2024. (Only watch this in a place where you can laugh without raising eyebrows). 😁 youtu.be/diKNkTFv7Ow

The profile banner is a detail of Tao Hong's painting "Eye in the Sky" (2018, oil on canvas, 200cm by 300cm) at the National Art Museum in Beijing, on 13 Sep 2019. A mosaic of 100s of corporate icons, the piece serves as fitting metaphor for surveillance capitalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveil...