VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come

Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy www4.uib.no/en/research/...

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

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Congratulations! #TimorLeste has been certified malaria-free by WHO. Since gaining independence in 2002, the country has made remarkable progress to #EndMalaria, reducing cases from a peak of over 223 000 in 2006 to zero indigenous cases from 2021 onwards. 👉 bit.ly/3UqU04X

This is absurd. The mpox/monkeypox vaccines are already paid for & there are major outbreaks in several African countries. Couldn't they just hand the doses over to WHO or GAVI or Gates Fdtn or some other entity to distribute? www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Unfortunately for Americans who want to not experience things like "bubonic plague," we also can't write NIH or NSF grants about this kind of thing anymore. I dunno, seems important

Yep - plague. Want a deep dive? Plague webinar next week! 🐀 Public health: never not relevant. Often historically infectious. Thanks @fledertier.bsky.social for the webinar tip!

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

‘The plan is manifestly illegal, and if carried out would amount to a series of grave international crimes’ - Israeli intl law scholars on plans by Defence Minister Katz to “concentrate” population of Gaza in a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah www.justsecurity.org/116904/israe...

The UK will become the first country to offer a vaccine program against gonorrhea. It will use the MenB vaccine, which is caused by a close genetic relative to gonorrhea, and offers some ‘cross-protection’ against it. Efficacy is moderate, but could prevent 100k infections over the next decade.

New RSV vaccines & antibodies have reduced infant hospitalizations. Among the youngest infants, hospitalisations for RSV were halved in the US. But only around half of eligible infants received the vaccines last season. With higher vax rates, hospitalization rates could be reduced even more.

Toxic clouds: the mounting vape waste crisis As vape pollution spirals, volunteers will rally in York on 12 July to demand action and enforcement of ignored recycling laws By Miki Storey @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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The Participatory Health Research Unit at @unioflimerick.bsky.social has launched a new Postgrad Diploma in Participatory Health Research. If you're interested in advanced participatory research methods to support Implementation Science, this course is for you. More info: lnkd.in/dr5uEquC #ImpSci

"Insurance companies currently rely on ACIP’s guidance on which vaccines to cover. But if enough reputable public health groups come up with recommendations different from ACIP’s, Osterholm said, those groups could sway insurance companies on which shots to cover..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

LANCET Paper April 28th 2021 showing countries going for covid zero fared better heath wise, for civil liberties and economically www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties

Cancers related to immune suppression are dropping for people living with HIV but we still have a much higher risk of anal and liver cancer. www.poz.com/article/canc...

🍽️ THIS WEEK: join the #EmptyPlatesProtest to represent millions of Americans who will go hungry, lose healthcare, and pay more for basic needs if Congress passes devastating cuts in the budget bill. Pledge to fast here protestfast.org #EmptyPlatesProtest #HandsOffSNAP #HandsOffMedicaid

Yellow fever often spreads in a sylvatic cycle: mosquitoes transmit the virus between non-human primates Primates don’t directly transmit to humans—but are often blamed and harmed. The real need is human vaccination and mosquito control es.mongabay.com/2025/06/fieb... www.paho.org/en/topics/ye....

www.ias.org.uk/report/spin-... IAS analysis of over 140 public communications from major companies and industry-funded organisations shows a clear strategy of: Cherry-picking evidence Exaggerating econ value Undermining policy policymakers must act on the facts – not industry spin.

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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...

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

Our new paper on transforming trade to address the determinants of global vaccine equity. The same issues are emerging with Mpox. A brilliant team to work with. Thanks especially to Toby, our early career researcher. A great future in global public health research is unfolding.

Very happy to see this out! As well as the below, @amckinlay.bsky.social and I discuss how factors associated with populism - such as online misinformation - may exacerbate health inequalities. Read the blog here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... Please do reach out to let us know what you think

Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

BMJ: "Will banning disposable vapes result in 200 000 more smokers?" (Spoiler: no. Conflicted unreliable data: "The report was commissioned by the global consumer healthcare company Kenvue, which owns the nicotine replacement brand Nicorette." See: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

A new piece from Drilled reveals that Chevron purchased millions of #CarbonCredits from a project claiming to protect #Indigenous land in the Colombian Amazon. But Indigenous leaders say they were excluded from decision-making and received “zero information, zero participation, zero benefits.” 👇 1/

Should Political Violence Be Addressed Like a Threat to Public Health? Treating political violence as a contagion could help safeguard the future of democracy, by @michaelluo.bsky.social (2024) www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... via @newyorker.com

Could there be a more timely call? We are offering up to £300k for international research projects on a series of transnational and planetary challenges including digital technology, global health and earth system governance. Please spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/know...

Sir Geoff Palmer was a pioneer and an outstanding intellectual. He had a hugely positive impact on Scotland and will be sorely missed. My sympathy to his family.

New from Free Movement: What is the difference between refugee status and humanitarian protection? | John Vassiliou freemovement.org.uk/what-is-the-...

NEW Opinion in PLOS Global Public Health by @nimayaghmaei.bsky.social, @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social and colleagues: The Gaza health information system: Rebuilding for a resilient future journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

NEW research published in PLOS Global Public Health by Toby Pepperrell, @merikoivusalo.bsky.social, Liz Grant, and @alisonkmcc.bsky.social from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and Tampere University: Transforming trade for vaccine equity: Policy gaps and barriers journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Today in the Scottish Parliament, I highlighted Ekta's case, whose daughter Anisa left school due to racist bullying. While anti-racist resources exist, are they used effectively? #AntiRacism #scottishpolitics #workingforyou

I have always been committed to nonviolence but the way a lot of people are talking about nonviolence right now has really been bothering me, and I realized it was reminding me of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

A recent WHO study found that every 2% increase in energy intake from #TransFats significantly raises the risk of: 💔 heart disease by 25% 😐 death from any cause by 14% Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/42oIBG3

Via the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

Our preliminary analyses on the genomic epidemiology of mpox in Sierra Leone. Brilliant team, and incredibly heartening that this was all done on the continent, driven by African partnerships. Results will be updated as new data comes in!

Health literacy is our quiet strength against disinformation. It empowers, protects, and unites - just like the KU Leuven Library, rebuilt through solidarity. Our call to the EU: defend democracy by making health literacy a priority. 📘 Read more: eupha.org/repository/a...

“Aren't Arabs terrified? Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die?…” This historic speech by Tony Benn in 1998 (link below) is never more relevant than today to remind people that they’re responsible to uphold equality of humanity at least for a moment in their hearts every day. #Gaza

Goh, nog even en ik moet minister Veldkamp een complimentje geven.

Looking forward the conversation next week with these inspirational leaders on the growing momentum for global public investment - from which all countries would benefit, to which all countries would contribute, & for which all countries would decide. ➡️ zoom.us/meeting/regi...

17 May is International Day Against Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Intersexphobia! Today and every day we stand for dignity and full respect for human rights of all people! www.coe.int/en/web/sogi/...

"In a #WellbeingEconomy, economic growth is not a goal in itself but rather a way to increase the wellbeing of people and the planet" - Editorial by @carocostongs.bsky.social, Director of EurohealthNet

🏳️‍🌈 New: 2025 #RainbowMap ranking European countries on their #LGBTI legal and policy practices “Moves in the UK, Hungary, Georgia and beyond signal not just isolated regressions, but a coordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights.” @ilgaeurope.bsky.social rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org