📢 Children & young people are bombarded with junk food ads on social media – up to 200 times a week - but current rules do little to protect kids 🍔📱 Read more in the new research from @jesselafontaine.bsky.social, @cervanteewild.bsky.social & @isabelhanson.bsky.social 👇 #Healthcare #FoodMarketing

Super proud to see @jesselafontaine.bsky.social's masters research published in @bmj.com Global Health Scoping the research on the social media industry & the digital food environment for children and adolescents gh.bmj.com/content/10/2... @isabelhanson.bsky.social 🙌

Brilliant resource for anyone doing (or interested in) anti-colonial research. www.anticolonialresearchlibrary.org Thank you 🙏 @carolinelenette.bsky.social #medsky

“Charities funded by the alcohol industry such as drinkaware, omit, distort or deny information about alcohol’s relationship with cancers, heart disease and fetal alcohol syndrome disorders. Conflicts of interest harm people” @markpetticrew.bsky.social speaking at @rcphysicians.bsky.social event

TORCH Oxford Research Hubs torch.ox.ac.uk/research-hubs TORCH Research Hubs are points of synergy for cutting-edge, boundary-crossing research on political and cultural questions which are central to the Humanities at Oxford.

📢New job!!! We've got a new postdoc research position in our group, working with @hannahforde.bsky.social to develop a Nutrient and Environment Profiling Model to support UK healthy sustainable food policy. Click below for details. Please share widely! Don't make me log in to LinkedIn...

Cream tea in the snow in front of the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford My British transformation is complete 🦘❄️🫖🇬🇧

I couldn't find one so thought I'd get a commercial determinants of health starter pack going. Please suggest people to add or ask to be added! go.bsky.app/6nKKEeh

🤳 Is social media causing youth self-harm—or just an easy scapegoat? This balanced article from the MJA breaks down the weak evidence, moral panic, & addresses real harm risks for young people. It offers sensible health and policy recommendations (see pic) 📋 www.mja.com.au/journal/2024...

Hey health reporters! I made a starter pack for journalists and bloggers covering health care policy. Please let me know who else belongs on this list! (I do not belong on this list but can’t figure out how to take myself off 🫣) go.bsky.app/4BnB6v9

Blackademics U.K starter pack is here!! Let me know if you would like to be added. Please help me spread the word by reposting 🫶🏽 #Blackademics #BlackSky #AcademicSky #HiSciSky go.bsky.app/9SZqevC

I made one for 'types of paper in epidemiology and public health' #EpiSky

Findings from @foodfoundation.bsky.social's 2024 report inc: 5 companies responsible for >80% of TV ads for snacks & confectionary aired before the watershed 42% of businesses don't transparently report on net zero/Scope 3 emissions targets - 17% have seen their emissions increase rather than fall

I came to the UK from Aus (to do my PhD) and I was excited to work as a GP in the NHS. The most common thing people say to me? You went to the wrong way. Go back to Australia. I hope #primarycare can be revitalised in the UK, it’s heartbreaking to watch its decline as a new GP fellow. #medsky

Here's PhD Sky bsky.app/profile/mark...

Call for Papers 📝 Medical Humanities in the 21st Century: their meaning, value, and place in academic and societal discussion 🎭🎨🎶📖💃🏻 link.springer.com/journal/4059...

Thank you for the warm welcome @timsenior.bsky.social ! Yay my first starter pack ☺️ such lovely Aussie GP company 🦘

AI in Primary Care by Dr Jessica Morley (Oxford/LSHTM webinar): 😲 Only 2% of AI algorithms move from lab to frontline (GP&hospitals) 📊 Statistical accuracy ≠ clinical efficacy ❓ The key question for any AI in healthcare project: WHY? Benefit must be the metric, with evaluation cycles to prove it

AI in Primary Care by Dr Alexander d’Elia (Oxford/LSHTM webinar) Map of AI equity in healthcare: 🛑 Health equity impacts are varied & contextual 💸 AI hype can divert funding, pushing out effective human interventions ⚠️ Poor implementation & privatisation risks ⬆️ system inequities

you have been greeted by cranky pearl

The move from Twitter to Bluesky is an exercise in social change that political campaigners should pay attention to and let into your thought orbits. It appeared to happen suddenly, but it was filling people's disapproval buckets over a longer time that caused it. 1/3

Our paper looking critically at digital access in primary care, just out in print issue of SHI: 'The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice' #medsky #academicsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Elizabeth Campbell starts her talk: Informatics and climate change: A health equity perspective. #AMIA2024 🩺🖥️🛟 🧪

Fantastic talk by @bprainsack.bsky.social on Personalised and Precision medicine in the digital era We do we need to do? 1. Consider all faces of power (and their implications) 2. A political ethics 3. Stronger public value orientation

The moment the sun comes out in Oxford… Drop everything. Go outside 🏃‍♀️☀️

It was a treat to write with @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social But I don't get the graphics the BMJ chose.

"The wheels are quickly coming off the physician associate (PA) project". www.bmj.com/content/386/... @bmj.com

Commercial Determinants of Youth Mental Health talk @woncaeurope2024 🧠 Commercial factors impact youth mental health 📖 Narrative cases ground global health in real stories 👩‍⚕️Primary care perspectives are essential for public health & policy 🏥✨

Great talk from Dr Matt Baines on the diversification of the primary care team. Work load did not decrease for GPs. Some roles were a helpful complement (pharmacist, paramedics) GP trainees felt totally unprepared to supervise other professionals!

Prof Susan Smith at WONCA Europe 2024 revisiting Hart’s inverse care law (access & need are inversely correlated) and importantly… how exposure to market forces makes it worse! Accessible primary healthcare is key in tackling health & social inequity.

If you're Oxford based, there's a treat on the first Sunday of each month throughout the winter: a Bach concert in New College Chapel. Just 75 minutes but magical and uplifting. Here's tomorrow's programme: www.oxfordbachsoloists.com/event/bach-p...

Masks during pandemics. Guess what: RCTs are not a good study design. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

With my awesome PhD students at #WONCASydney2023!