Check out the award winning abstracts presented at the 14th International @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social conference in Glasgow, UK, on 11th and 12th October 2024 published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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... 🧪

For pharmacists interested in credentialing as an advanced mental health pharmacist check out the joint RPS @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social webinar #PharmSky www.rpharms.com/resources/we...

My UK chief pharmaceutical officers colleagues & I have provided advice to help pharmacy professionals wanting to take part in the debate on assisted dying. This follows similar advice recently issued to doctors and nurses: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate. Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine. From our work on Polio: ourworldindata.org/polio

The expansion of GLP-1 drug efficacy evidence in 2024, a concise review by Daniel Drucker, a pioneer of the field nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally! 🎉 Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep... #SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky

For me the best key insight of this paper was that we could take an existing large and complex model and fit it, using relatively simple means, to a new and emerging situation. It worked well and gave rapid insight into the emerging variant outbreak. #IDModelling

Great advice on public speaking

This week we published a report about what the public in Scotland want from #NHS reform and how they want to be involved in decisions about their healthcare: www.hisengage.scot/informing-po... #HealthcareImprovementScotland

I decided to use my first post to promote the beautiful #Kimono exhibition at the #Dundee V&A