🎥 Missed UCL’s Health Equity Event 2025? The recording is now available! Experts from UCL & beyond explored progress, challenges & next steps in tackling health inequalities. Watch here 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challe... #HealthEquity #UCL

Webinar 1 produced by our Brazilian team titled 'The Importance of Critical Racial Literacy in Advancing Health Equity' featuring discussions with Professor Márcia Alves and Professor Alexandro de Jesus is now available on the CORE YouTube channel - youtu.be/ikoIJJ7Qkp0

Many congratulations to our MSc Course Rep Hussain Alali, for making the Roll of Honour for the Academic Rep of the Year Award! A great acknowledgement of all the support Hussain has given to the students he represents 👏 👏👏 studentsunionucl.org/academic-rep... @ucliehc.bsky.social

Want to study a Master's degree with us? Book your place on our upcoming online information sessions! Participating programmes: Population Health MSc Social Epidemiology MSc Master of Public Health MPH (online) Health Psychology MSc Dental Public Health MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h...

Today, we've published new @healthfoundation.bsky.social / @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social showing the public supports bolder policy approaches to tackle alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy food. 1/n www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

Webinar 3 produced by our Colombian team titled 'Commercial Determinants of Health in Colombia' is now out on the CORE YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxo8... - Please like, comment and subscribe!

📣 Paper accepted! Our research on media framing of calorie labelling shows one way "lifestyle drift" occurs in obesity policy. Analysis of 177 articles reveals how approaches get reframed as individual responsibility in public discourse. #PublicHealth #PolicyResearch www.ijhpm.com/article_4723...

👏 Huge congratulations to our brilliant Yanela Aravena Rivas @yanelaaravena.bsky.social who this week passed her PhD with no corrections! 🎓🥳🎉 Her thesis examined the impact of the Chilean governance system on sugar consumption in the country, and her examiners were extremely impressed by her work.

Responsive Research Fund call launched in Colombia. $25,000,000 pesos available to fund 3 research projects in Colombia. Click on the link below to learn more. thecoreprogramme.co.uk/wp-content/u... thecoreprogramme.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Responsive Research Fund call launched in India. Up to £30,000 available for early career researchers to support exploratory research focused on oral health inequalities, commercial determinants, and oral health system reform. Click on the link below to learn more. phfi.org/opening/call...

In 2024, we partnered with @ucl-dph.bsky.social, a WHO Collaborating Centre led by Prof. Richard Watt. 🎙️ This podcast series features global experts discussing oral health inequalities & policy solutions. Listen now: 🔗 buff.ly/3AzVnb7

The threat of violence to children should no longer be given legal cover. The time for change is now! childofourtimeblog.org.uk/2025/03/phys... @anjaheilmann.bsky.social @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl-dph.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @jessasatomp.bsky.social

Happy 20th to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control! 🎉 Over the past two decades, this landmark treaty has transformed public health—saving lives, strengthening policies, and empowering countries to stand up to Big Tobacco. Its global impact is undeniable.

The third newsletter for the CORE Programme is now out and can be accessed here - sway.cloud.microsoft/7F8Ov1FnXEdz...

1. A Theoretically Informed Process Evaluation in Parallel to a Feasibility Study of a Complex Oral Health Intervention Using NICE Guidelines in a Care Home Setting doi.org/10.1111/cdoe... @ucl-dph.bsky.social

Discover five facts about WHO and its global impact ⬇️

#HealthForAll For everyone. Everywhere.

Don't forget about it, one month left. There is a lot that can be learned from cross-country studies on global health

📣New Paper:19 months after the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL; sugar tax) was enforced we find a 7.5g weekly household sugar reduction from soft drinks. Weekly sugar reductions were highest in houses with lowest incomes(70g/week) / with children(56g/week). 📄: nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

In Episode 6 of #OralHealthMatters, Richard Watt, Dympna Kavanagh and Benoit Varenne discuss global health policy, and oral health as a public health priority around the world buff.ly/3AzVnb7 #uclpodcasts #oralhealth #globalhealth #Episky #PublicHealth

www.uq.edu.au/news/article... Important #JDR paper from the UQ group bringing more evidence about safety of community water fluoridation.

💰 Commercial influences on patient and public involvement in health policy, research and practice #ConflictsofInterest #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth #CDoH By @maritahennessy.bsky.social Tom Fahey @jameslarkin13.bsky.social in @healthpromint.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

In October 2025 the UK will finally introduce restrictions on unhealthy food and drink advertising. Restricting advertisements is an essential step towards a healthier food environment, writes Katharine Jenner @oha-updates.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...

For all of public health: "One must get one's house in order, from a conflict of interest perspective because for public health advocates, our credibility, our legitimacy, cannot be tainted by any COI" Focus on "conditions that enable change" esp. power (interests, ideas & institutions) -S. Friel

‼️ Funding opportunity ‼️ The CORE programme 🌎 funds 4 training studentships for early career researchers to study for a Masters degree at @ucl-dph.bsky.social or Glasgow Dental School (& School of Health and Wellbeing) thecoreprogramme.co.uk

🔉Meet the CORE programme 🌎 CORE (Community Focused Oral Health Research for Equity) is a four-year research programme funded by the UK NIHR @nihr.bsky.social to address the neglect of oral diseases in four middle-income countries: 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇰🇪 Kenya 🇮🇳 India thecoreprogramme.co.uk

Important new paper led by Emma Hunter, Gerry McKenna and team: Systematic review on the impact of edentulism on community-dwelling adults in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

In episode 5 of #OralHealthMatters, Richard Watt, Sharon Friel and Delan Devakumar talk equity & commercial determinants, and the broader global health research agenda Listen here 👇 buff.ly/3AzVnb7 #uclpodcasts #oralhealth #CommercialDeterminants #Episky #PublicHealth #HealthInequality

Many congratulations to Jialan Hong on publishing the first paper from her PhD in JDR Clinical & Translational Research! 👏 Socioeconomic Position and Oral Health in Chinese Older Adults: A Life Course Approach journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

As more people are moving over here I thought it was time to reshare the oral and dental health starter pack Please ping with if you want to be added - or taken off - go.bsky.app/4xxTxfe

Two wonderful global health scholars have made their global health books free to download Bravo and thanks @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and @thewrittenro.bsky.social The Foreign Gaze: www.editions.ird.fr/open_access_... Rethinking Global Health: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

🔔 NOW OUT at Health Promotion International Addressing the commercial determinants of mental health: an umbrella review of population-level interventions OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae147

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cINg... Food industry has infiltrated UK children’s education: stealth marketing exposed Good short video summing up @emmajourno.bsky.social article

If you need a good podcast for your Sunday or Monday (depending where you are), give this a listen: In Ep 4 of #OralHealthMatters, Richard Watt speaks to Lisa Jamieson and David Conway about nurturing the next generation of #oralhealth researchers @davidiconway.bsky.social buff.ly/3AzVnb7

Bringing BRUSH to Bluesky: our toolkit dedicated to implementing supervised toothbrushing in nurseries and schools www.supervisedtoothbrushing.com

“Health-harming industries seeking to avoid regulation or liability portray themselves as ‘part of the solution’, while shifting the blame for harms onto others” - @maizie333.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social et al new in @healthpromint.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

In episode 3, Richard Watt talks to Mirai Chatterjee & Blanaid Daly about the meaning & value of community engagement in #research #uclpodcasts #oralhealth buff.ly/3AzVnb7

My investigation for @bmj.com uncovering the influence of the food industry in schools. Experts say there should be much greater scrutiny. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

“Our inclusive methodologies enabled autistic children with diverse communication needs to participate. Such methodologies improve the representation of autistic children in oral health research” This is such an important project & I’ve really enjoyed being a small part of it. #academicsky #dental

For those interested in all things (dental) public health, community dentistry, dental services, & oral epidemiology, we have just moved over here to @bsky.app 😊 Find us here: commdentoralepi.bsky.social #academicsky #episky #dentistry #publichealth #oralhealth #scientificpublishing

📣 New paper 📣 We used a systems thinking approach to map the key actors, structures, incentives, and dynamics that have led to the dominance of UPFs in population diets worldwide. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #UPFs #ultraprocessedfood #sustainablediets #sustainablefoodsystems

In Ep2 of Oral Health Matters, Prof Richard Watt talks to Prof Regina Mutave + Prof Manu Mathur about what’s getting in the way of progress for #oralhealth research in the Global South. buff.ly/3AzVnb7

The 3rd edition of Health Inequality has kept aspects of the older two editions that @zetkin.bsky.social originally wrote & so many found to be an accessible way into understanding the complexities of health inequalities, but there are new bits too Here's a wee thread to explain what we've done 😉

Last week, the WHO convened its first ever global oral health meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. Member States adopted the landmark #BangkokDeclaration, highlighting #oralhealth as a global health priority. The declaration and meeting recordings are published here: www.who.int/news-room/ev...

In Ep1 of our Oral Health Matters podcast, Prof Richard Watt, Dr Carol Guarnizo-Herreno and Prof Marco Peres ask if oral health is a luxury for a few or a fundamental human right for all #oralhealth #uclpodcasts #healthinequalities buff.ly/3AzVnb7

🔔 NEW at Health Promotion International Overcoming doubt: developing CDoH Essentials, a practical tool to introduce the commercial determinants of health ✍️ Anna Brook, Katherine Körner, May C I van Schalkwyk, Amy Barnes, Mark Petticrew OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae166

🚨 $710 Billion: Economic Burden of Oral Diseases 🚨 Oral diseases cost the world a shocking $710 billion annually. As highlighted by WHO and the World Economic Forum, this figure underscores the urgent need for decisive policy action. See our article 👉 shorturl.at/t2KPF

Not new news. But today is a vital step towards a ban of junk food ads on TV & online (repeatedly delayed by last Govt) For any sceptics, this is a v good thing for health... 👍 Loads of evidence shows advertising works 👍 Food giants spend £££s on ads - of course it works www.gov.uk/government/n...