And this said "disease awareness campaign" is running again... just heard the radio ad We really need to tighten up regulation (& definitely not have self-regulation!) of such industry-driven marketing campaigns (tactics) www.thejournal.ie/novo-nordisk... #COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Obesity

International Congress on Obesity Still brought to us by the pharma industry Can we truly say we care about #COI & addressing #CDoH if pharma partnerships are still acceptable within the public health community (esp in obesity) icocongress.com/sponsors/ #Obesity #LookingTheOtherWay #AtWhatCost

No Ethics Needed? Towards an Ethics of Care for Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Kanwal Mand, Anna Lavis, Melissa Stepney, Roisin Mooney, Kam Bhui onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Ethics #PPI #PPIE

Well said Sara Burke - we should be focusing on improving standards of maternity care, for all! The 'but you're denying women choice' argument is illogical... it's only a 'choice' for those who can 'afford' it in the first place! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #MaternityCare #PublicGood

"We may not expect that the Government can cover such a cost for a long time. We are working with them to improve access" 😏 The framing of these industry pieces is always interesting... Lest we forget - Fiduciary duty to shareholders is #1️⃣ #COI #CDoH #Obesity www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

"The scientific meeting was funded in part by Novo Nordisk, Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson, and representatives from the companies attended all discussions." #COI #CDoH #Obesity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ah yes, the annual European Association for the Study of Obesity & Novo Nordisk Foundation Awards still going strong - each awardee receives a research grant of DKK 300,000 #COI #CDoH #Obesity #Pharma #WebOfInfluence #AtWhatCost

Rethinking barriers and facilitators in implementation science: conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges, and ways forward Per Nilsen link.springer.com/article/10.1... @implementsci.bsky.social #ImpSci #CFIR

When did it become okay again for commercial milk formula companies to be involved in the Pregnancy and Baby Fair here? 😒 Cow & Gate sponsoring 2026 awards pregnancyandbabyfair.com/awards/ Our 2018 letter: www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30... #COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #InfantFeeding

😍 #JobFairy @roinnslainte.bsky.social Chief Health Ethics Officer Apply by 01/04/2026 @ 15:00 www.linkedin.com/redir/redire... #HealthEthics #Ethics #PublicHealth #CriticalPublicHealth

For more information/to download the workplace resources, visit www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie @maritahennessy.bsky.social @radiokerry.bsky.social @jerosullivanrk.bsky.social #PLRG_WorkplaceToolkit #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PLRG_PLACESproject

Alan O’Brien spoke with @maritahennessy.bsky.social about leave for pregnancy loss <23wks, including the #PLRG_WorkplaceToolkit & #PLRG_WordsAtWork on the @jerosullivanrk.bsky.social Show @radiokerry.bsky.social earlier today Listen back via www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/ker... #PLRG_PLACESproject

Alcohol Forum Ireland has produced a new short new video exposing the predatory tactics of the alcohol industry - worth watching & sharing (good for teaching too!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=911_... #COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Alcohol #WomensRights #PublicHealth @paulaleonard.bsky.social

Governments & academic institutions worshipping at the alter of industry... when will we truly appreciate & value research & innovation for public & societal good in its own right, & not solely corporate gain? #CDoH #COI #AtWhatCost

Associations between pharmaceutical industry interactions with physicians and chronic nonmalignant pain management prescribing practices: a systematic review link.springer.com/article/10.1... Mohammed Gharbia, Lydia Iladiva, @frankmoriarty.bsky.social, Tom Fahey & @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

Accelerated Parallelised Realist-Informed Literature Review (APRIL): A Novel Method for Informing Policy Decision-Making in Accelerated (<1 Month) Timescales Justin Aunger, Bianca Ungureanu, Rachel Posaner, Christian Bohm, Ross Millar, and Sarah-Jane Fenton journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Keep doing brilliant things to uplift women but please know that GiveToGain is not this year's UN #IWD2026 theme. It is entirely made-up by a private corporation with a flashy .com site. It profits yet no charitable contributions on accounts for the past 10yrs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Dr Kieran Walsh delivered a keynote address at Trinity’s Health and Education International Research Conference. He spoke about the importance of strong evidence in a changing healthcare system and how researchers can produce research that makes a difference. Learn more: www.hiqa.ie/areas-we-wor...

So incredibly grateful to have women like @eileenflynn.bsky.social in politics Her statement on International Women's Day in the Seanad 🔥 Telling it like it is & not playing along (always!) "Women who are giving their all & gaining fuck all" #Inclusion #Equality #Tokenism #GiveToGain #IWD2026

How to support workers who experience pregnancy loss. Analysis by @maritahennessy.bsky.social Tara Woulfe & @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Qualitative Health Research Special Issue: Intersections (existing, emerging, and imagined) between Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Health Research journals.sagepub.com/toc/qhra/36/...

Potential Applications of Realist Methodologies to Implementation Science Research @mukumbang.bsky.social, Alejandro Argüelles Bullón, R. Scott McClelland, @sebastianpotthoff.bsky.social, @bjweiner.bsky.social, @soniadalkin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #ImpSci

📣 New on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social ⁉️How to support workers who experience pregnancy loss ✍️ @maritahennessy.bsky.social, Tara Woulfe, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social 🔗 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #PLRG_PLACESproject @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social

Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice Sheena McHugha, Fiona Riordan, Aoife O'Mahony, Laura-Jane McCarthy, Ana Contreras Navarro, @clairekerins.bsky.social et al www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Breaking down the borderlines between abortion and miscarriage: towards a full-spectrum approach to pregnancy endings Victoria Browne & Susie Kilshaw www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @miscarriageproject.bsky.social

"critical challenge for scholars & others who take seriously the ideological constructions of everyday life is to understand how individualised & privatised pursuits of wellbeing restrain & limit our commitment to the political work required to bring about a more healthy & just society" Crawford '26

Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research "Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..." By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social

Looking for a way to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay on Sat, Mar 7th? There's still time to register for the upcoming Reproductive Justice Hackathon, aimed at improving @wikipedia.org resources on Irish reproductive justice movements. Sign up by Feb 27th to join the event: dri.ie/events/repro...

The rise of patient and public involvement in health research in Denmark – a qualitative study of funder’s policies and practices www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"These findings highlight the importance of “de-coupling” remote working as specifically being for mothers or parents, to remove biases that may hinder good practices." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Reflections on Healthism and Medicalization 45 Years Later Robert Crawford onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Individuals aside, why is a private consultancy company (EY) represented on the National Science Advisory Forum? www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

This special issue isn’t anti-tech. It’s about ensuring that innovation serves people’s needs, not just market incentives. The path forward requires collaboration across technology and health, rigorous evaluation, and an unwavering focus on reproductive health, rights, & justice. 7/8

Vast majority of special issue submissions came from high-income contexts. Despite FemTech collecting data from millions daily, only ~50% of submissions included empirical data. FDA recently signaled it may relax regulation of health tech, but we need stronger (not weaker!) safeguards. 6/8

A small taste of some findings: - In the US, period tracker use increased post-Dobbs, despite privacy warnings. - Technologies designed to empower users can also create risks for fairness, autonomy, and accountability. - Equity-centered research agendas are essential. 5/8

In brief, FemTech in SRH offers promise & excitement, but also seems like a high-stakes experiment unfolding in real time, without adequate safeguards. Privacy protections (even GDPR) fall short for sensitive reproductive data, and regulatory frameworks are fragmented across jurisdictions. 4/8

FemTech emerged in a space where women’s health has been underfunded and under-researched. These technologies hold real potential, but many also present serious concerns around evidence, regulation, privacy, and equity. 3/8

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out! It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial. A 🧵on what we found; please help us share! 1/8

From wandering wombs to reproductive control: Why women’s health was never (and is never) neutral Written by Emily Young. This blog explores how sexism in contemporary healthcare can be traced to the historical origins of Western medicine. Emily argues that the marginalisation of women’s bodies is…

📢 Reminder! Abstract submission for #ICCH2026 will close on the 6th March 2026. With 7 different submission categories and several confirmed topics to be presented at ICCH, there is something for everyone looking to submit. Find out more ➡️ fitwise.eventsair.com/icch2026/eve... #EACH

This looks amazing! 🎨 International Visual Methods Conference (10th Edition): People, Place, Narrative 📆 22 - 24 March 2027 📍 Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK ivmc10.visualmethods.info #IVMC10

🗞️ Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social & @maritahennessy.bsky.social attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health @oireachtasnews.bsky.social on 18 Feb to discuss issues relating to the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026, including implementation progress 🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

Reminded of this paper again this week ( #PreconceptionCare #MaternityCare) Beyond Choice: Challenging Individualism in Public Health Narratives by Mark Robinson, Mark Chenery, James Smith onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SDoH #CDoH #PoliticalDeterminantsofHealth

We are excited to launch Call for Papers for the IHA annual conference 2026 - Un/Silencing Healthcare: Voices, Power and Imagination, hosted by South East Technological University (SETU) on 3rd & 4th Sept. Further details and link for abstract submissions 👇 www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Reminded of Gemma Sharp's NB work as I attend Preconception meeting @ UCC today... It's the mother!: How assumptions about the causal primacy of maternal effects influence research on the developmental origins of health and disease www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good to see focus on #COI & #CDoH in @roinnslainte.bsky.social's 'Embedding Women’s Mental Health in Sharing the Vision' (2023) "Ensure that providers of funding have no conflict of interest in school training programmes. (e.g. alcohol)" www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Beyond “Women’s” Health: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Trends in Gender-Neutral Language Use Yann Guérin, Finlay Maguire, Aisling Clancy, Jocelyn Stairs www.jogc.com/article/S170...

“More like a drug cartel than a baby plan”: A multimodal analysis of infertility GIFs on Reddit Rim H. Chaif journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Join us on Thursday @ 4pm GMT to hear more about the #PLRG_PLACESproject Note: Live & recorded webinars for BNE members only bereavement.eu/membership/ @maritahennessy.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @danielnuzum.bsky.social @cdoconnor.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

"...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