In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult. But it’s what "global health” shld be about. In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations! gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Important paper explicitly addressing the big conundrum "the global health job market is fundamentally constructed by the same structural forces that prioritise downstream over upstream solutions."

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult. But it’s what "global health” shld be about. In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations! gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

I simply cannot get enough of this book and the playlist is amazing. Reading this book is soothing, thought provoking, empowering. I also feel the righteous anger. Personally I think it applies way beyond Global Health. Reading it for the 4th or 5th time.

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow). journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Spike Lee’s Katrina doco, Come Hell and High Water, on Netflix is really good. Neglect after neglect after neglect after strategic neglect.

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger." The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind. It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

The Foreign Gaze, an Important global health book is coming soon! www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

This book is excellent and comes with a playlist!

🎙️ What are the key concepts around health systems resilience? Who is expected to be resilient? How are communities involved? Find out in our podcast episode with Sophie Witter, @sushilbaral.bsky.social & @seyeabimbola.bsky.social 🔊Listen here... www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article. They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate". Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It was nice to see @lancetgh.bsky.social editors wrote an editorial in the issue of the journal featuring our article. They committed to being "mindful of these expectations in all work that we evaluate". Restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

Towards inclusive authorship: Analyzing author representation in @plosglobalpublichealth.org front matter content Esme Longley & @shashikalb.bsky.social journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

Professional update: Joined the Jindal school of public health & human development (JSPH) @JindalGlobalUNI as Associate Professor. Look forward to interdisciplinary #publichealth & #humandevelopment teaching & research & Teach in the first #GlobalHealth course from India.

African Pharmakon The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

So smart! #implementationscience

I often reach for this paper when asked to think or talk about promoting the adoption and scale-up of health system innovations. Its ‘four-by-four’ framework can help you think through institutional barriers, potential strategies, and how learning unfolds in those efforts: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

I often reach for this paper when asked to think or talk about promoting the adoption and scale-up of health system innovations. Its ‘four-by-four’ framework can help you think through institutional barriers, potential strategies, and how learning unfolds in those efforts: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

This podcast episode is worth a listen: Two AI 'people' having a chat about @thewrittenro.bsky.social's Rethinking Global Health & my The Foreign Gaze youtu.be/Pk0GqnDaD9M?... Its cheery status quo politics is at odds with the vibe of both books, and it feels like a warning RE AI peer/book review.

"People aren't saying they wouldn't do lockdowns again—they just want more transparency and respect." New research challenges the narrative about public trust being destroyed by COVID measures. Our conversation on what's really changed in 5 years. www.buzzsprout.com/1104002/epis...

journalists, university administrators, media companies, arms manufacturers, Hollywood, theaters, museums, academic conferences, medical associations, nonprofits, city councils, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Trump, Harris, Blinken, Biden, the AMA, Northwestern, Harvard, Jeffries, Johnson

I hate this ahistorical American bullshit that a Hollywood victory can be achieved at the last second. Bullshit! Tens or hundreds of thousands have been killed. Millions made homeless. Famine. Genocide. Careers ended. Homes destroyed. All of this was manufactured by politicians,

Actually for those of us who lost our livelihoods for saying what was happening—a small price to pay compared to the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, journalists, moms, dads and kids who lost their lives—an “I told you so” from us is getting off easy for people like you who made it happen

It will never not be depraved that universities sanctioned and participated in the harassing and criminalization of student activists for saying one day we would all be against this when now, suddenly, everyone is against this.

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

‘Admit research waste to build trust’, urges iconoclastic professor. John Ioannidis warns of rising levels of fraud and unusable results at #Metascience2025. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. - James Baldwin They are all our children. #Photography #Bluesky #Resist #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Wildflowers

HRS2026 theme is out healthsystemsglobal.org/news/hsr2026... Big 👏👏🏿👏🏻 working group led by @devakinambiar.bsky.social + Fadi El Jardali! @lucygilson.bsky.social @kristofdecoster.bsky.social @alliancehpsr.bsky.social @karengrepin.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @renzoguinto.bsky.social

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger." The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind. It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

"We need to expand the category of ‘expert’ in the characterisation & management of epidemic disease... [and] render expertise (& ultimately authority) more proximate to affected communities—thereby giving those most at risk a stake in designing & carrying out projective scenarios & interventions."

This is an incredible paper!! h/t @monicamedhist.bsky.social gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... #EpiSky

Epistemic preparedness reminds me of a RANT I did at the Society of Family Planning in like 2018 on the need for epistemological diversity in abortion and contraception research. It’s urgent!

Disabled people were de-prioritized early in the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to suffer the fallout. Any future plans must include marginalized people with disabilities, especially in high risk communities exposed to systematic medical racism.

"The colonial hauntings... of epidemiological practices... Whether as genealogy for data collection and analysis or as a metaphor for power imbalances between statistical expertise and other knowledges, the shapeshifting ‘colonial’ is a spectre productively disrupting epidemiological practice."

"We need to expand the category of ‘expert’ in the characterisation & management of epidemic disease... [and] render expertise (& ultimately authority) more proximate to affected communities—thereby giving those most at risk a stake in designing & carrying out projective scenarios & interventions."

Social sciences AND humanities. "The blind spot in most modelling has proven to be ecological and sociological complexity." Not much #histmed here, but clearly this is the beginning of larger conversations we need to have about what "preparedness" means for our pandemic futures.

In BMJ Global Health, open access: epistemic preparedness. We argue for the social sciences and the humanities - expanding the category of expert - in preparing for the next pandemic! #pandemic #epidemiology #histstm #histmed #sts @nam.edu @humanitiesau.bsky.social @acmedsci.bsky.social @apha.org

New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al

“What does it mean to be epistemically or cognitively prepared for the next disease outbreak? Epistemic preparedness—focusing on a more diverse, equitable and inclusive stocktaking as much as stockpiling—provides a reliable foundation for future disease outbreak management.”

LSHTM's Director writes to UK Government about #Gaza public health catastrophe Professor Liam Smeeth's letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urges action to prevent a greater #PublicHealth disaster: 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Just out of the oven! I'm grateful with the editors of this special issue and with the IJFAB team. utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...