Somehow the "metal Christmas covers" playlist on Spotify has defaulted to old skool Maiden Algorithms are genuinely magic

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/a... Advertising Works a case study in nicotine addiction

NHS gets 'game-changing' robot assistants to slash waiting times and save millions www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2148... I do so hope some serious "strategic commissioning" thought has been given to this one.....

This headline…. what a way to generation-blame for industry malfeasance @felly500.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Nicotine pouch use has risen in Great Britain, primarily driven by sharp increases among young people, especially young men....... and aggressive marketing......

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Great round up of successful public health interventions from @rsph.bsky.social ⬇️ In his latest blog, ADPH President @felly500.bsky.social explores what makes public health success stories work, and what lessons we can learn from them. 👀➡️ www.adph.org.uk/2025/11/public-healths-greatest-hits/

Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m... 1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm 2. Why it happens 3. It's not new 4. How it happens 5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic

Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m... 1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm 2. Why it happens 3. It's not new 4. How it happens 5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic

Rare Earth - transport. Cleaner, cheaper, faster www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Worth a listen Good reframing of common objections by Chris

Dark PR - applied to roads, cars and driving Discourse and how it is shaped has very real public policy (& thus outcome) consequences Thus a v legit target for those seeking better outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lessons from COVID www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

www.bmj.com/content/391/... An effective public health response to the next pandemic demands learning from past mistakes Public health needs proper funding, effective lines of communication, and support for its workforce to respond to future emergencies @tracyd-ph.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social

Teaching policy actors about the methods and tactics of food industry to shape policy... ..... influences how they act with to industry actors trying to shape policy Great bit of research this academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti... 10 yr analysis of growth of harmful product industries on high streets split by income helpful analysis More deprived areas were more likely to gain health harming amenities. More deprived areas were more likely to lose health conducive amenities

Voters in Hamburg have rejected universal basic income. Many economists would agree with them theconversation.com/voters-in-ha...

Advertising is a vector of harm for gambling, alcohol & tobacco harm, just as mosquitoes are a vector of harm for harm from malaria discuss.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Chris Packham being Radical. best lines = 1. focus on production and supply chains (REDUCE), not expectations on consumers & demand (RECYCLE). 2. Air quality, ULEZ and net zero has been made politically toxic by those who stand to profit from the status quo

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/n... arguments about the nanny state. Ten simple steps for woke snowflakes

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... evidence does not glide into policy like a fairy godmother with a wand. It enters a world of political interests, institutional routines, cognitive shortcuts, and competing narratives

Exceptionally interesting paper from John and team Underscores one more reason why alcohol price matters to consumtion & eventually harm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

GLP-1 receptor agonists: a wake-up call for the food system, not a silver bullet for obesity. www.health.org.uk/features-and... real legacy could be as a catalyst for the systemic reformulation.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Multi cancer detection tests Till we've better evidence definitely more hype than hope in my view Good show @debscohen.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Oh wow Rutger Bregman - aka Davos tax man- is BACK with a vengeance First installment is excellent

www.bmj.com/content/391/... In other news- Ican find no evidence to refute that aliens are watching my every move, thus I conclude that aliens are watching my every move ............

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... The man who sold the world As pertinent today as it was in 1997

Sander van der Linden on misinfo - Rapid repetition to ensire wide spread - Pre bunking & Psych inoculation - use of political power to maintain ability to spread misinfo in name of free speech - questioning the motives & credibility of those who study misinfo open.spotify.com/episode/0eqK...

I care! And so does the @bmj.com DTB open.spotify.com/episode/1e3D...

Drug industry payments to APPGs doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... concerns over transparency and “disjointed disclosure” mechanisms part of a “web of influence” strategy secretariats, which are often run by industry bodies, PR consultancies, and health charities- connections with 40 pharma companies.

www.doctors.net.uk/news/caving-... just saying.......... nobody really cares about detail thesedays, or experts. But Karl really IS an expert who has done the detail.

Seen on a billboard I beg to differ: uk.news.yahoo.com/inside-life-...

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification "....all models are wrong, some are useful. It appears that these models are not necessarily wrong, they just aren’t useful."

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification "....all models are wrong, some are useful. It appears that these models are not necessarily wrong, they just aren’t useful."

gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification From a believer to a non believer

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Misinformation review focuses on: -role of disinformation for profit - antiscience policy - how & why disinfo is increasing Interventions: - greater focus on framing - strategies for “prebunking” of predictable narratives - denormalization - countermarketing

Huge thanks to @markpetticrew.bsky.social @kristinakim.bsky.social @marcozenone.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social for partnership on a new review article: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @socsocmed.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/2qDh... Hoffman and McClintock corporate culture and how car dominance started

intouch.kcl.ac.uk/countering-m... The misinformation epidemic the spread of digital misinformation as one of the most serious threats to human society. King's researchers have found a surprisingly fun way to strengthen our defenses against it

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds

www.bmj.com/content/391/... Proposed changes to alcohol licensing Growth for whom, and at what cost Liberalising licensing is not a neutral act. It is a policy decision to prioritise commercial interests and shift any costs to already overstretched health, emergency, and social care systems

Commercial determinants of active travel: a crucial but overlooked barrier to health and sustainability but NOBODY oppposes physical activity? oh but they do this is very good www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u... Helpful overview of DfT Spending, priorities, structures

Poverty and death in the wealthiest of nations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 2 studies are reminders of interplay between poverty, economic policy snd heealth outcomes Swift www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Colvin www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

2025 Lancet Countdown on health & climate change www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... plenty of countries that spend significantly more on fossil fuel subsidies than their healthcare budget Esp see heat related mortality indicator (new) & air quality related mortality from burning fossil fuel

www.bmj.com/content/391/... Seth Berkley interview: vaccination in a time of extreme scepticism

IHME GBD do not report increasing cancer incidence in 15–49 in e.g. SE or US. But they do rather complex modeling on official statistics. ourworldindata.org/grapher/canc...

Such a fab graph. A whole story re: waste of resources and needless anxiety in 3 lines.

impact of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling policies on obesity prevalence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Hmmm Yes maybe but NB: modelling assumptions Equity impact Allows policy system to avoid or delay harder (? More impactful) regulatory choices. The limits of labels.....

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... The Rise in Early-Onset Cancer in the US Population - More Apparent Than Real Epidemiology 101 All screening does harm, some screening does good etc Here is a telling example of harm And we wonder why there is a crisis in workload and workforce in cancer care

Food industry corporate greenwashing www.foodpolitics.com/2025/10/food... Comparing promises ("we will be good", "we care") with actions "food companies have no market incentive to reduce their environmental impact if it is going to raise their costs".