"...interventions characterised by low agentic demand: welfare reform, housing support, and legislative measures; yield the most consistent reductions in inequity" Jatinder Hayre, Ellie Canning, Helen Pearce, Raj Khera & John Ford link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SDoH

Knowledge brokering inside the policy making process: an analysis of evidence use inside a UK government department Louise Shaxson, Rick Hood, Annette Boaz, and Brian Head bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Stakeholder perceptions of ‘guidance and standards’ for developing clinical practice guidance in Ireland Conor Hammersley, Waleed Serhan, Melissa Sharp, Marion Cullinan, and Barbara Clyne bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

lol so much innovation! A future of healthcare focused on health? Wow! Disease prevention could be important? Tell me more!

Ah yes, the National Health Summit...brought to us by a consulting firm, pharma companies & other commercial actors... healthsummit.ie/sponsors/2026/ #COI #CDoH #Healthcare #Slaintecare

A seven-step method for analyzing metaphors embedded in social texts Peter Adams www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution" Prof John Browne speaking @ CUH Grand Rounds this lunchtime #COI #CDoH #Academia @publichealthucc.bsky.social @sphereprogramme.bsky.social

Understanding the Problems of Medical Student Exposure to Pharmaceutical Marketing Marta Makowska link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #COI #CDoH #Pharma #MedEd

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

📢 Webinar - Process evaluations: How do we explain why interventions work or cause harm? Join Prof Rhiannon Evans (Cardiff University) for a talk on process evaluations, covering causal pathways, implementation, context & key frameworks. 🔗 universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 📅 12/02 @ 1pm

So we have figures now. Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X. Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images — 41% were sexualised images of women www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Extractive behaviours and actions in/around research are often not easy to understand. Or may be evidence with examples that feel far away and not linked to our work. It means we miss the smaller actions that are still extractive. What examples have you noticed in your work - or had done to you? ⬇️

A lot of people don't recognise extractive behaviours because they are being pushed to get research done, or aren't encouraged to consider what's important to them may not be shared by others. Nor does our training encourage reflection on how research can feel (and be) alarming, intrusive, annoying.

Public views sought on Child and Family Homelessness Action Plan Open for submissions from: 19 January 2026 Submissions close: 8 February 2026 www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative studies of alopecia: Managing identity and appearance changes Zoe Hurrell, Vasilis Vasiliou, Fuschia Sirois, Andrew Thompson bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Saturation in Qualitative Health Research: An Overview and Analysis Through the Lens of Epistemic Injustice Jackson Loyal and Michelle Amri journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Methods of Engaging Interest-Holders in Healthcare Evidence Syntheses: A Scoping Review Alex Todhunter-Brown, Jennifer Petkovic, Christine Chang, Ursula Griebler, Ailish Hannigan, Jennifer Hilgart, Basharat Hussain, Janet Jull, Christina Koscher-Kien et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Restoring Trust in Public Health by Preventing Financial Conflicts of Interest in the Scientific Literature and Government Decision-Making Nicholas Chartres, Tracey Woodruff, Lisa Bero ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... #COI #CDoH

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!

Whose vulnerability? Inverting constructions of older people as a vulnerable group during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen, Catherine Conlon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We were delighted to attend the launch of the Lady Mayoress (Karen Brennan's)' International Women’s Day Event @ Cork City Hall yesterday-great to meet lots of wonderful advocates from across from the City ✊ @maritahennessy.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social www.corkcity.ie/en/council-s...

Save the Date: @galwayhprc.bsky.social Annual Health Promotion Conference | "Economic and Structural Determinants of Health: Promoting Wellbeing through Equity" 📆 25 June 2026 📍 @uniofgalway.bsky.social @roinnslainte.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social

📢HRB's Applied Partnership Awards - Women's Health 2026 call for proposals is now open. 📌Funding for up to 10 #womenshealth research projects at €200,000 each 📌Closing date 27 March 2026 ℹ️Call details including guidance notes, FAQs and more➡️ bit.ly/4jG3OE0

"How do we keep some of the value in public hands so pharma products are a common good or #PublicGood rather than something that can be financialised and profited from by shareholders." #COI #CDoH #Pharma www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20...

“We need to rethink the role of pharma industry in the entire value chain" - Prof Susi Geiger speaks to @irishtimes.com about the spiralling price of new drug therapies - the topic for discussion at this year's Laurence Crowley Lecture Series on Jan 19 at 6.30pm. www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20...

Just came across the phrase "casual academic talent pool" in a recruitment advertisement. Christ alive.

“I think the humanity just gets lost over and over again”: A phenomenological study of the experiences of higher-weight medical students Sebastian Shaw, Laura Hennessy-Grainger, Angela Meadows journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #WeightStigma #EndWeightStigma

Stigma, Scarcity & the Price of Legitimacy: Chronic Pain Advocacy & the Politics of Pharmaceutical Partnerships in Canada Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Benjamin Hawkins, Quinn Grundy, Robert Schwartz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... I think findings here potentially transferable to obesity...

Feels like the motto of this Government 😩 Utter abdication of the State's responsibility to protect the public good here (& time & time again) A Government for the people, or corporate interests (& general bad actors' in this case)?

Check out my recent publication (co-authored with my mum!) which explores how #aphantasia is often widely understood as a deficiency, a disorder, or dehumanising. Such understandings were common in social media posts, but also in scientific literature in the field. (1/4) doi.org/10.58544/ims...

Longitudinal associations between adolescent body dissatisfaction, eating disorder & depressive symptoms, and BMI: a UK twin cohort study Ilaria Costantini, Thalia Eley, Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Neil Davies, Helen Bould, Cynthia Bulik, Georgina Krebs, et al www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID-19 Era @dalupton.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When Eli Lilly & Novo Nordisk signed deals with Trump to “lower” prices - you realize they got speedier FDA approvals & reduced tariffs in return.

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It) James Smith, Rob Moodie, Carmel Williams, Glen Ramos, Katherine Trebeck, Caterina Giorgi, Melinda Edmunds, Gemma Crawford onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’m so happy that this research is finally published—& *just before* 2025 ends! This is a topic I’m personally invested in & mulled over for a while. I was delighted to work on it with Jacquie for her thesis & to publish this paper together. #childfree #ReproductiveJustice #pronatalism

Interprofessional undergraduate breastfeeding education: a scoping review Elaine Lehane, Aoife Fleming, Edina Hanley, Roisin O’Donovan, Helen Mulcahy, Siobhan Ward, Liz Cogan, Margaret Murphy, Aoife Long & Patricia Leahy-Warren link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Community Development-Grounded and Led: A Methodological Approach for Ethical, Community-Driven Inquiry With Roma in Ireland Ciara Bradley, Anastasia Crickley, Lynsey Kavanagh, Jenny Liston, Vanessa Paszkowska, Rudolf Simonic journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It might be able to produce a text, but it’s not able to produce knowledge: qualitative researchers’ perspectives on the use of Generative AI in research Sarah Foley, Maria Dempsey, Catherine O’Sullivan & Nollaig Frost www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💜 At our final research group meeting of 2025, we took some time to reflect on the year, the contributions of our members, our wonderful collaborators & collaborations, & why we do what we do 🙏 Thank you all for engaging with us @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie

Interventions to enable or improve evidence-informed decision-making in public health and preventive medicine: A scoping review Emily Groot, Jessica Pelley, Anne-Marie Boylan, David Nunan www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

A huge thank to Cork City Councillors - Shane O'Callaghan & @horganp.bsky.social - for their local & national advocacy in this area to ensure people who experience pregnancy loss <23 weeks are better supported at work www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social #PLRG_PLACESproject

The Uncharted Territory of the New Obesity Drugs in Users Without Obesity: A Sociomedical Perspective Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi, Bruno Gualano, Pernille Andreassen, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Sissel Due Jensen, Alexandra Brewis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reflections & Guidance on Using Ethnographic Approaches in Health & Care Research Lauren Ramsey, Graham Martin, Nicola Mackintosh, Jennifer Creese, Elisa Liberati, Charlotte Overton, Georgia Spiliopoulos, Krysia Canvin, Rachael Kelley, Justin Waring journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Always read the small print at the end... "The Novo Nordisk Foundation has provided support to the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) for Early Career Network development activities..." easo.org/about-easo/e... #COI #CDoH #Obesity Independence needed

Ireland....the land of revolving doors... #COI #CDoH

In the first of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/a...

In the final of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/05/r...

"We anticipate that we will receive sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies for this event. As soon as sponsorship is confirmed, the details will be added to this page" 🫠 www.obesityalliance.co.uk/agenda-1 #COI #CDoH #Obesity Independence needed

Dr Mai Mannix quoting Senator Lynn Ruane at the launch of the HSE's #PublicHealth Stategy 2025-2030 this morning: "We don't fall into the river, we are pushed" #SDoH #CDoH #Inequity #PoliticalDeterminantsOfHealth bsky.app/profile/preg...

"We all need to see ourselves as working for public health" ✊ Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer @hselive.bsky.social, speaking at the launch of the HSE Public Health Strategy this morning