Huge congratulations to Sunil Amrith for winning the @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize!!! I'm enormously proud of Sick of It being shortlisted alongside such fab books, especially as I *think* it's the first International Relations book to make the shortlist, hope it becomes the 1st of many.

Absolute joy to discuss Sick of It at the British Academy Book Prize event last night, meet such lovely readers & shortlisted authors, & celebrate with my mates (Becky my pal since I was 12 who beats me at tennis every week & Simukai who has the most amazing book coming out next year!)

Today’s British Academy Book Prize reading recommendations come from Sophie Harman, whose book SICK OF IT explores the global battle for women's health Find out more about her chosen books here: lrb.me/0926b1 @britishacademy.bsky.social

Most fun (& difficult!) task of the year! I was asked to recommend 3 books I read recently for the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk blog as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social book prize. My recommendations (and those of the other nominees) ⬇️ www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Want to learn more about the British Academy shortlist? Excellent overview of all the books around 45min mark www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

There was I worried I wouldn't have time to properly read America First Global Health Strategy before finishing my keynote for next week.... but its all BIG font and BIG pictures and some quite comedy (despite seriousness of issue) graphs

Is the far right's success in global health partly homegrown? www.medico.de/en/crisis-of... I'll be talking about this and more next week in Berlin ahead of the World Health Summit - come along if you're in town! www.medico.de/termin/2025-...

Hope to see many of you at this event - and read the book too! @profsophieharman.bsky.social

Spanning a broad range of non-fiction subjects from the global politics of women’s health to Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church, this year's British Academy Book Prize shortlist leads readers across continents and pivotal moments in history. Here's why non-fiction is important to our authors.

I’ve just started reading this and it’s riveting (not least because it reaffirms and corroborates so much of what I’ve seen working in gender and global health over the past 25 years). don’t sleep on this.

Kindle has chosen Sick of It to be part of their 99p deal for October! Given the first book I published back in 2010 was about £80 this is a much better deal. And cheaper than a whippy.

You may already have seen her on the BBC this morning, but journalists and policy experts looking for experts on digital ID cards - you need to speak to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social This is a post from earlier this year blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Heading to the World Health Summit in Berlin in October? I'll be popping up to give the keynote at this excellent side event organised by @medico.de - do come along www.plattformglobalegesundheit.de/defending-th...

“The creation of a New Public Health Order is about much more than simply placing vaccine and other medical manufacturing facilities on the African continent.” Interesting read…

Can the New Public Health Order deliver for Africa in a post-Trump world? New piece for @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

When the US right talk about free speech in the UK their point of reference is always abortion. This is not an accident, but a core part of their agenda. Women's health as ever at the forefront of global politics.

ICYMI: William Dalrymple and Sophie Harman ( @profsophieharman.bsky.social ) have been shortlisted for the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize 👇 #BookSky

Congratulations to former Philip Leverhulme Prize winner @profsophieharman.bsky.social for being nominated for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize! Her book ‘Sick of It’ examines how women’s health is shaped by politics, policy, and social inequality.

Huge congrats to the amazing @profsophieharman.bsky.social for being nominated for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize. Another trip down the red carpet beckons... 👏👏👏 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...

Look at this lovely list! Equally thrilled to have my book in the LRB Bookshop as I am to have more readers encounter the data grannies, the community health workers, and the driver 🥰

SICK OF IT by @profsophieharman.bsky.social, a powerful investigation into how global politics is jeopardising women's health. www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/sick-o...

ICYMI: William Dalrymple and Sophie Harman ( @profsophieharman.bsky.social ) have been shortlisted for the £25,000 British Academy Book Prize 👇 #BookSky

Sick of It has been nominated for the British Academy Book Prize!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am such a fan of this prize, that I've alternated between a weird merry dance and 🙀 since I found out. Congratulations to all of the authors on the shortlist www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...

We cannot stop talking about this: attacks on maternity units Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan...are deliberate tactics of conflict that target civilians. I argue this in Sick of It - politicians decry some cases (Ukraine), ignore others, but can't claim not to know. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

'We need more of this type of calling out bullshit. Not to bring down global health and its potential to advance women’s health. But to show us what’s really broken, rotten, or simply dangerous.' Thanks so much @katribertram.bsky.social for this generous and no nonsense review of Sick of It

$2.5billion for women's health is great. BUT as I argue in Sick of It, all this innovation, money & attention is great but this will get you nowhere unless you understand the bigger problem: how women's health is used to gain and sustain power in the world (which is also what Gates is doing here)

Sick of It is now out in PAPERBACK!! www.virago.co.uk/titles/sophi... What an incredible year: speaking in parliament/book shops/unis/major donor meetings to meeting amazing readers & receiving such generous reviews. I am so grateful to everyone who has read, engaged & championed the book.

I'm going to Rio tomorrow! So excited to be teaching a short course on Global Health Security as part of the PUC IPS Winter School & bringing my reading pile (@whitproject.bsky.social Erased, Mackay's Positive Humanity, when?, & a colleague's secret project) to the beach. Highlight of work summer 🥰

‘A powerful prescription for change’ Observer, Book of the Week ‘An eye-opening contribution to the global discourse on women’s health and a call for change’ The Lancet Sick of It: the Global Fight for Women's Health Paperback out next week!!! www.virago.co.uk/titles/sophi...

Ahead of #UNAIDS Board this week, vital that a gendered response to #HIV is not traded out to appease donors (who you can't appease anyway) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I shared Sophie's post earlier, but I need to elaborate on this. The stakes are incredibly high. It has been extremely challenging to get international health organizations and many donors to do even the basics to address health disparities among women and girls.

53% people living with HIV are women. Along with aid cuts, the danger is that leaders of the HIV response will trade out the needs of women & girls & the gendered determinants of HIV to align with donor interests. This cannot happen. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Happy 50th @mybisa.bsky.social and happy #BISA2025! BISA's big birthday coincides with my Mum's big birthday so I won't be in Belfast but I bloody love BISA - all the opportunities when I was early career, the friendships from the working groups & the Board, the great conferences, the journals! 🥳

Be Brave! Ahead of the most important Board in @unaids.org history, I joined forces with the indomitable Treatment Action Campaign & International Community of Women Living with HIV to call for women to remain at the centre of the HIV response in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Paperback of Sick of It is out in July and you can get 20% off if you order direct from Virago with the code SICK OF IT. And with such a discount why not be like Bruce Sproodlesteen and get multiple copies to give everyone you know? store.virago.co.uk/products/sic...

I am so happy to see @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social receiving the recognition she deserves! The best postdoctoral fellow in the whole of @qmul.ac.uk. Her work on education and ideology will set the tone of the debate for many years, I'm sure. Many congrats, Lizzie! (📸 by @profsophieharman.bsky.social)

PAPERBACK!! Thank you to everyone who bought, sold, promoted, & support Sick of It this last year. The response has blown me away & exceeded my expectations of what a book can do. There's so much more to come as the fight for women's health is very much ON. Paperback out 3rd July.

2025 thus far: more attacks on maternity, IVF, and abortion clinics; more reproductive violence; more health worker burnout; more cuts to women's health agencies; & a doubling down of women's health as a tool of global politics. Sick of It paperback is out 3rd July uk.bookshop.org/p/books/sick...

School of Politics & IR Research Away Day! My 2nd and last as Director of Research of such a brilliant group of researchers

Highlight of the week was joining MSF's Block Day to talk all things SRHR and gender lens on health emergencies. Political midwives are my new favourite people.

Rights of healthcare workers 2nd most popular essay question this year (2nd to COVID 🙃). I wrote about violence against healthcare workers in Sick of It. Next generation are paying attention even if world leaders aren't www.theguardian.com/society/2025... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Thrilled that Sick of It has been shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Prize and to be alongside two fantastic scholars and books

No. 1 Political Science researcher in Europe for recent impact is.... me?! I'll take that. And maybe put my feet up a bit. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And I was delighted to be there! Such a privilege to meet with the @appgonglobalsrhr.bsky.social to discuss Sick of It, Trump, the rise of the global right, Ukraine, Gaza, cuts to foreign aid and welfare. An incredibly important parliamentary group.

'The Commission concluded that such acts amount to the crime against humanity of extermination.' un.org/unispal/docu... How reproductive violence works as an act of genocide…. 1/6

'Resistance to attacks on women’s health requires as much attention to what they are trying to build as to what they are trying to destroy.' Terrifying but brilliant analysis by @profsophieharman.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Patriarchy now has powerful patrons We must fight even harder to protect women’s health in the era of Trump and the global right @profsophieharman.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

“There is a mirror world of global health multilateralism—where things look familiar, including language, concerns, and priorities, but the ideology and intent is completely different—and we must not ignore it.” 🖊️ @profsophieharman.bsky.social writes for @bmj.com

Don't sell out to a regressive political ideology: any compromise not only damages women's health but is politically naive move. I wrote this in response to questions I've received about Trump: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Trump & the global right’s politics are focused on performance & distraction with deadly consequences for women. Resistance to attacks on women’s health requires as much attention to what they are trying to build as to what they are trying to destroy." @profsophieharman.bsky.social in @bmj.com