This is going to be great! ping @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ises-epi.bsky.social @kavindigamage.bsky.social

6k euro to publish a paper in Lancet Public Health Let’s just sit & think about that Students & post docs need these publications for their career Our institutions, who don’t fund us properly, want us to publish in these journals We raise the cash, do the research & reviewing for these journals

📢 New Commentary in @nataging.nature.com — rdcu.be/ejE8n Caregiving for and by older adults remains a vital yet overlooked contributor to the wellbeing economy and healthy aging. @anitavanzwieten.bsky.social, Mouna Sawan, Jo-An Occhipinti, @jjaimemiranda.bsky.social @samtani-suraj.bsky.social

Happy Nowruz 🪻🌷✨

How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

Earlier this week we published analysis of new ONS data showing that there had been no change in self-reported health between 2011 and 2021. This represents a lost decade. It emphasises the need to put prevention at the heart of the Govt's plans to build health. 🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...

PLEASE SHARE: Registration is now open for the next Introduction to Causal Inference Course for Health & Social Scientists (7-11 July 2025, Leeds, UK). See more info & register here: www.causal.training Note, we are not planning any other courses until 2027. #CausalIntroCourse #EpiSky #CausalSky

Thank you JCE for this initiative! Our paper in JCE focused on using causal diagrams to avoid overadjustment bias @mkellyirving.bsky.social @samankhalatbari.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

This feels like a thread worth re-visiting! 📌

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'. Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings. FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

It is finally alive! The almighty database of our mapineq.eu -Horizon Europe project. Design and implementation by @melindacmills.bsky.social and Doug Leisure, hosted at University of Groningen. 1/3

NSW government comes down hard on vape suppliers www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/nsw-governme...

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...

Hi folks, here's the thread I promised about the latest edition of Health Inequality. I hope it makes sense #PublicHealth #HealthInequality #Equity #SocialJustice #Lifecourse #Embodiment #SystemsOfPower #CommercialDeterminants #Episky #Academicsky ⏬

Look what I finally received in the post!! A real life copy of “Health Inequality” 3rd edition that Mel @zetkin.bsky.social & I have been working on for the last 2 years! Would you be interested is a wee thread about this ed? If so, I’ll prepare one It’s a good #socialepi & social science primer

In case you missed it, slides & readings from our Reimagining Global Health summer course is available here: www.teachepi.org/courses/reim...

My wonderful colleague @zetkin.bsky.social & I have been working on the 3rd edition of “Health Inequality” It will come out in Nov More information here⬇️ #academicsky #episky #sociologysky www.wiley.com/en-fr/Health...

As part of the Gendhi project gendhi.eu/en/home/ we're developing a shiny app to support researchers working on social & health inequalities to select appropriate counterfactual causal inference models Its in French for now, but we'll translate it & hopefully integrate other causal model types too

New opinion piece by David Wallace-Wells for the NYT argues for a broader framing of the American mortality disadvantage with more attention to structural analyses of the policies and systems contributing to poor health. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/o...

Hello ... are we ... SociSky? SocSky? Anyway, I'm on the ASA Public Understanding of Sociology award committee again this year, and last year most applications were self-nominations. Nominate yourself, a friend, a stranger you respect - due Jan 1 (why Jan 1 tho?). www.asanet.org/about/awards...

Here's a link to my review of Camille Robcis' excellent study of postwar radical psychotherapy. Somehow I missed it when it was first published! The whole book is great, but I especially love the Fanon chapter.

Please join us for the launch of the Healthy Ageing Toolkit, a searchable cohort information repositor that includes 287 cohort studies across the globe. 26 Oct 2023 from 11 am-12 pm AEDT. Toolkit link: www.healthyageing-toolkit.cepar.edu.au Register now: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/launch-of-...