‘People living in the 20% most deprived areas in England are almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital due to infectious diseases than the least deprived.’ Health inequalities are structural and interlinked with social factors such as poverty, housing and employment on.ft.com/42GYjhH

🆕 Updated | European #PublicHealth on Bluesky 🦋 Lung Cancer Europe @lungcancereurope.bsky.social 🦋 European Academies Science Advisory Council @easac.bsky.social 🦋 Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social 🦋 EuroHealthNet @eurohealthnet.bsky.social go.bsky.app/K2JB6CN

Citizens Initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU–Israel Association Agreement has reached the one million signatures required to trigger a response from the European Commission and the European Parliament. #EuropeNews

🇭🇺 #HungaryElection: EU Health Commissioner #OlivérVárhelyi ‘on the chopping block’ as #PéterMagyar's win threatens Orban’s EU influence network Várhelyi is a close ally of Orbán and currently under Commission investigation into his alleged role in a spying scandal www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

🇭🇺 #HungaryElection - A strange new dawn: “ Perhaps never before have so many socialist, liberal and green politicians been so happy to see a European country elect a parliament comprising exclusively conservatives, nationalist populists and fascists.”

Latest Guardian Opinion cartoon on #Trump #Pope #Iran #IranWar by @bjennings90.bsky.social

🆕 Updated | European #PublicHealth on Bluesky 🦋 Lung Cancer Europe @lungcancereurope.bsky.social 🦋 European Academies Science Advisory Council @easac.bsky.social 🦋 Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social 🦋 EuroHealthNet @eurohealthnet.bsky.social go.bsky.app/K2JB6CN

🌍 UK aid cuts are hitting African health systems hard. Clinics are scaling back services for maternal health, HIV, and malaria. Years of progress are at risk. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @who.int @unicef.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

🇭🇺 #HungaryElection: #Orban far-right populism has failed #PublicHealth “preventable mortality remains among the highest in the EU. Lung #cancer (18%), ischaemic #heartdisease (16%) and #alcohol related diseases (12%) were the leading causes”

Europe should regulate #BigTech instead of banning kids from #SocialMedia, Estonia says Banning kids from social media won’t work, as they “will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media,” Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas said. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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🇭🇺 Hungarian opposition puts failing health care system at heart of election - 58% of voters believe the system has deteriorated during Orbán’s 16-year rule - Health expenditure is only half the EU average - Life expectancy is 77 years, well below EU average www.euractiv.com/news/hungari...

🌍 European Commission has cut its contribution to The Global Fund to Fight #AIDS #Tuberculosis and #Malaria as donors worldwide reduce contributions to #GlobalHealth @isglobal.org estimates an additional 22.6 million deaths by 2030 if current funding cuts continue www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

The chronic condition could cost OECD countries billions per year, with the total comparable to the annual health budgets of the Netherlands or Spain, a new report shows. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Ire0

🌍 European Commission has cut its contribution to The Global Fund to Fight #AIDS #Tuberculosis and #Malaria as donors worldwide reduce contributions to #GlobalHealth @isglobal.org estimates an additional 22.6 million deaths by 2030 if current funding cuts continue www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

#NotATarget: Doctors warn that #Israel is targeting #Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's Israel has carried out more than 160 attacks against emergency medical workers and ambulances, and forced the closure of six hospitals and 49 health clinics www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

📚 New Journal Article: #YouthWashing as a Corporate Social Responsibility #CSR tactic of health-harming industries: #Alcohol #Gambling #UltraProcessedFood #UPF #Tobacco #FossilFuel In @healthpromint.bsky.social - Editor in Chief @docsamantha.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

#AprilJewel: Spring has sprung in #Brighton #NorthLaine this morning

Corporations are writing EU law. We need to: ✊ defend ethical standards ✊ stop corporate capture ✊ drop all rigged consultation methods that allow corporate lobbyists to dominate ✊ a broad based campaign to defend and expand the protection of the public interest corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/w...

📚 New Journal Article: #YouthWashing as a Corporate Social Responsibility #CSR tactic of health-harming industries: #Alcohol #Gambling #UltraProcessedFood #UPF #Tobacco #FossilFuel In @healthpromint.bsky.social - Editor in Chief @docsamantha.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Gambling harm doesn’t happen in isolation. In our latest blog, Dr @lorenkock.bsky.social explores how risky drinking and smoking rise alongside gambling risk - with the highest harms clustering together. Time for a joined-up approach to tackling these behaviours. www.ias.org.uk/2026/03/31/g...

🆕 Association of Directors of Public Health statement on #CommercialDeterminantsOfHealth #CDoH "just 4 commercial products, tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods & fossil fuels are linked to approximately 19 million deaths worldwide each year" @adphuk.bsky.social www.adph.org.uk/resources/wh...

🇪🇺 #EU #Immigration plans: European Healthcare professionals urge MEPs to reject proposals to increase the deportation of undocumented people, warning they could threaten #PublicHealth by transforming health services into sites of immigration enforcement. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🇪🇺 #EU #Immigration plans: European Healthcare professionals urge MEPs to reject proposals to increase the deportation of undocumented people, warning they could threaten #PublicHealth by transforming health services into sites of immigration enforcement. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🛜 Big tech’s big tobacco moment? #Meta and #Google found liable in landmark #SocialMedia #addiction trial A Los Angeles jury has handed down an unprecedented win for a young woman who sued Meta and Google over her childhood addiction to social media. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#NotATarget: Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#HealthInequalities: #AirPollution linked to greater health risks in poorer European regions - New @isglobal.org study Researchers found that the health risks of air pollution are not solely determined by pollution levels; they also depend on people’s vulnerability www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

The Telegraph falling unexpectedly into German hands is excellent karma

🇪🇺 'Deregulation push threatens Europe’s long-term competitiveness, security and #PublicHealth" say five of Europe’s leading environmental organisations: @worldwildlife.org @canclimateaction.bsky.social @eeb.org @transportenvironment.org @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social www.wwf.eu?20864366/VNA...

🇪🇺 'Deregulation push threatens Europe’s long-term competitiveness, security and #PublicHealth" say five of Europe’s leading environmental organisations: @worldwildlife.org @canclimateaction.bsky.social @eeb.org @transportenvironment.org @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social www.wwf.eu?20864366/VNA...

Extreme Inequality Created the World Jeffrey Epstein Exploited www.socialeurope.eu/extreme-ineq... by Kate Pickett.

🚨 European Parliament Vote Tomorrow: "Poverty is not a crime, say NO to the registration and criminalisation of #homelessness" @feantsa.bsky.social calls on MEPs to reject criminalisation of homelessness "incompatible with the values of the EU" @freekspinnewijn.bsky.social

💊 Relying on weight-loss drugs to tackle #Obesity would be a “societal and medical failure” says England’s Chief Medical Officer "Is our answer to say ‘give up on #PublicHealth’ and then just rely on drugs to get us out of this hole?” #Diabetes #Cancer #HeartDisease www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

♀️ From cancer tests to COVID vaccines: the #women reshaping Europe’s health in a male-dominated field Despite a surge in female scientists across the continent, women account for just 13 percent of European inventors. #InternationalWomensDay www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

Despite comprising half the global population, women's health remaining a significant blind spot in modern medicine. A new Viewpoint outlines FemTech, technology-enabled solutions to address the barriers & inequalities in care: spkl.io/63329AatGL #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay

💊 Relying on weight-loss drugs to tackle #Obesity would be a “societal and medical failure” says England’s Chief Medical Officer "Is our answer to say ‘give up on #PublicHealth’ and then just rely on drugs to get us out of this hole?” #Diabetes #Cancer #HeartDisease www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#IranWar: Europe’s voice of moral sense speaks Spanish “Let’s remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime … and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law,” euobserver.com/205336/europ...

🇺🇸 #AmericaFirst #GlobalHealth strategy: Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries New aid deals come under scrutiny with US demands including countries being forced to share biological resources and data. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

🚨 Call for Proposals: European Health Forum #EHFG2026 Theme: "now is the time for stakeholders to champion health, solidarity and equity not as costs but as investments for a resilient future." www.ehfg.org/fileadmin/do...

#HopeOverHate: Moving acceptance speech from #GreenParty 's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election and crushing #ReformUK into second place www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

🇺🇸 #AmericaFirst #GlobalHealth strategy: Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries New aid deals come under scrutiny with US demands including countries being forced to share biological resources and data. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Two things are being overlooked in the #EpsteinFiles The complicity of doctors The extent of violence My new piece @bmj.com #IWD #Epstein #Healthwashing #VAW

🚨Latest Health Highlights newsletter from EurohealthNet EU Anti-Poverty Strategy: @eurohealthnet.bsky.social warns that eradicating #Poverty by 2050 will remain out of reach unless #HealthInequalities are addressed eurohealthnet.eu/publication/...

🔬 Inside the Growing #Scientist Migration to Europe "Since #Trump took office in January 2025, nearly 8,000 #research grants have been canceled or frozen, and around 25,000 federal scientists and employees of research agencies have lost their jobs" time.com/7379376/scie...

Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...

🔬 Inside the Growing #Scientist Migration to Europe "Since #Trump took office in January 2025, nearly 8,000 #research grants have been canceled or frozen, and around 25,000 federal scientists and employees of research agencies have lost their jobs" time.com/7379376/scie...

🇺🇦 Attacks on #Ukraine’s health care increased by 20% in 2025 “After 4 years of war, health needs are increasing, but many people are unable to get the care they need, in part because hospitals and clinics are routinely attacked,” WHO Director-General @drtedros.who.int www.who.int/europe/news/...

The EU’s new Wine Package protects industry interests 🍷 While Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan promised stronger labelling, wine is given exceptional treatment. In our latest blog, Wim van Dalen explains why health groups are being sidelined. www.ias.org.uk/2026/02/24/e...