UK Public Health Science Conference 🌱 📍 Newcastle | 📅 21 Apr 2026 (ECR event 20 Apr) Abstracts welcome on any UK/Ireland public health research. ✅ Published in JECH | ⏳ Deadline: 17 Oct 2025 More info: jech.bmj.com/content/earl... #PublicHealth #UKPHS2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social

🚨 After a brief hiatus, the UK Public Health Science conference returns in 2026 in collaboration with @socsocmed.bsky.social! 📅 Join us in Newcastle on 21 April, with dinner + ECR event on 20 April 📣 Call for abstracts coming soon 🏠 ukpublichealthscience.org 🤝 socsocmed.org.uk

New paper (£0): Socio-economic inequalities in uptake and timing of childhood vaccination: Taking a life course approach in an administrative cohort in Scotland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper exploring linkages between socioeconomic inequalities, pro-environmental behaviours, climate change concerns, and wellbeing outcomes in England Led by Jonathan Olsen @uofgshw.bsky.social @vkatikireddi.bsky.social @gergobaranyi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2025 - registration now open! Join us 1-3 July at the University of Essex to hear the latest research using longitudinal household panel studies. Find the programme and book your place: understandingsocietyconference.co.uk

"New" Paper : Associations between different measures of SARS-CoV-2 infection status and subsequent economic inactivity: A pooled analysis of five longitudinal surveys linked to healthcare records. doi.org/10.1371/jour... Using @ukllc.bsky.social data

A new framework for the conduct and use of natural experimental evaluations has been published to support health researchers and decision makers. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/heal...

Honored to spend yesterday discussing the evidence on drug consumption rooms with Scottish Affairs committee with brilliant Scottish experts @arjmcauley.bsky.social @catrionamath.bsky.social @vkatikireddi.bsky.social including our @drugscience.bsky.social review parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

🔊 Published today, our new Cochrane review on the impact of calorie labelling on people’s selection and consumption of food (including non-alcoholic drinks) and alcohol: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... Short thread below 👇

DON'T MISS: "Defining income as a causal exposure" with @igelstorm.bsky.social at 3pm (GMT) on 20th Jan 2025. The first in the 2025 Turing Causal Inference Interest Group Seminar Series! Sign up: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Join mailing list: jiscmail.ac.uk/CIIG #CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky

Accurately measuring mortality helps quantify the impact of conflict but remains challenging. ⬇️ In a peer-reviewed study, authors from @lshtm.bsky.social draw on multiple data sources to estimate traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip. 1/3

📣 New article just in time for Christmas! 🎁 Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being doi.org/10.1136/jech... @vkatikireddi.bsky.social @ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social @hesterparr.bsky.social @richardshaw.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social

Interested in a PhD studentship focused on how income policies can address dietary inequalities? Get in touch. Afraid, UK domestic students only eligible. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Two PhD studentship opportunities with me and others @UofGMVLS Interested in making trials more equity focused? 1) Ethnic inequalities: t.ly/m9PC0 2) Socioeconomic inequalities: t.ly/G6Pxo Do get in touch if interested.

Great article from @spidermaani.bsky.social, Mark Petticrew and @maizie333.bsky.social, highlighting the perils of the involvement of the alcohol trade group in public health campaigns

This is the 1st article in what is my most difficult project: started during the covid19 pandemic, then I raised a baby (and his older brother), changed cities twice, and jobs, etc. The article, of utmost importance, discusses the intimidations we face in our field academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Two PhD studentship opportunities with me and others @UofGMVLS Interested in making trials more equity focused? 1) Ethnic inequalities: t.ly/m9PC0 2) Socioeconomic inequalities: t.ly/G6Pxo Do get in touch if interested. (Note two different links!)

Excellent and important new paper looking at relationship between child poverty and health outcomes. Underlines the importance of the government’s planned child poverty strategy making better health a success metric Not sure which authors are on here so can’t tag them jech.bmj.com/content/earl...