Had a fantastic few days in Oslo with @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @je-schwarze.bsky.social, and colleagues (plus @jdwilko.bsky.social online!) discussing how to do better reproductive research!

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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez #Science #Culture #Disinformation #ScienceCommunication #PublicTrustInScience

Kennedy is wrong, for sure, but how to resist⁉️ "To uphold a truly evidence-based public health, we must re-enchant and reinforce independent scientific institutions capable of generating valid expertise grounded in population health sciences." #PopHealthLab www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

✍️ New article: “$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why?” 🧵

Near #Lausanne 🇨🇭 August 2025

The Thinker. Los Angeles, 1930 Hiromu Kira

"Pamuk gives a compelling philosophical argument for increasing the institutions that are at the nexus of citizen civil society and the expert-led decision-making processes of government" oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/z...

"Continuously expanding disease criteria can reduce underdiagnosis and increase appropriate care, but often risk overdiagnosis, resulting in overtreatment and low-value care, ultimately threatening health care sustainability." #PopHealthLab jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health. ja.ma/4lZnRxG #MedSky #PedSky

This will be: * the first European Congress of Epidemiology since Cork, Ireland 2019 * the 70th conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health * the 70th anniversary of the first meeting of the International Epidemiological Association So a real celebration of Epi in Europe!

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

#epidemiology Save the date 💪😘 @pwgtennant.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social @robertwplatt.bsky.social @harvardepi.bsky.social @yalesph.bsky.social

PLEASE SHARE THROUGH YOUR NETWORKS!!! ⬆️ @mendelrandom.bsky.social @swissepi.bsky.social @christinadahm.bsky.social @ideberitlange.bsky.social @jlrohmann.bsky.social @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social @nataliaortega.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social @janetcade.bsky.social @robertwplatt.bsky.social

Bordeaux Mai 2025

Risk prediction is made at a group level - not at an individual level 🤔 It seems evident but the confusion is pervasive 😱 and stems from the conflation between risk and disease #PopHealthLab www.bmj.com/content/389/...

#Cancer screening ▶️ a whole-population or a risk-based approach⁉️ If risk-based, can you convince the "low-risk" strata to do less⁉️ #prevention #PopHealthLab @thelancetph.bsky.social @drotte.medsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org @vickersbiostats.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Easter 2025 in Lugano #Switzerland

#SoonInAJPH: "Building Community Research Capacity to Address Cardiovascular Health Disparities" An adapted curriculum significantly boosts community research capacity and participation in cardiovascular health initiatives.

Three thinks to do in quantitative population health studies (1) set a theoretical estimand, (2) link it to an empirical estimand, and (3) learn from data. You want to know more⁉️ Read this fantastic review #PopHealthLab bstewart.scholar.princeton.edu/publications...

A frontal assault graph from www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u... editorial @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Easter 2025, Pully, Switzerland 🇨🇭

April 2025 in Switzerland 🇨🇭

Public health surveillance or monitoring⁉️ What is clear is that we need both more than ever for evidence-based decision💪 #PopHealthLab @amjpublichealth.bsky.social @alfredomorabia.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social @drtomfrieden.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

"At the heart of the problem is the confusion between public health surveillance and health data science" #PopHealthLab @alfredomorabia.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

"Public health is often invisible — until it fails. Without these programs, there will be more outbreaks, more tobacco-related illnesses, and more Americans dying unnecessarily." 🙈🤯 @drtomfrieden.bsky.social @alfredomorabia.bsky.social #PopHealthLab www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/c...

"Globally, children’s Na intake was too high, while K intake was too low. Data were lacking in many countries. Interventions are needed to reduce Na and increase K from childhood, and monitoring should be improved" @drtomfrieden.bsky.social #PopHealthLab nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

Major improvements in population are too often underappreciated 🙈 #progress Check here the major decline in the age-specific prevalence of dementia ✅️💪 #PopHealthLab @drtomfrieden.bsky.social @cwolfs1.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social @alfredomorabia.bsky.social

This aligns with the clinical picture and not just for dementia: a 75-year-old today is in the same shape as a 65-year-old 30–40 years ago. Possible reasons: Less smoking? Less physical labor? Fewer severe infections (vaccination/antibiotics)? Cholesterol-lowering drugs? Less pollution? …

Prevalence induced concept change explains why "people whose job is to find and eliminate problems in the world often cannot tell when their work is done" 🙈 Key issue in public health‼️ #PopHealthLab #PopulationHealth #surveillance www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to predict risk⁉️ Well, do your best but acknowledge😎 uncertainties and remember that what you know at a group level is not bluntly applicable to one individual @bmj.com @societyforepi.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social @richarddriley.bsky.social ✅️ #PopHealthLab www.bmj.com/content/388/...

How to prevent cardiovascular diseases⁉️ "Pharmacist care is one key element of the solution to the global burden of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases"✅️ @drtomfrieden.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social @cochranehtn.bsky.social @amjhypertension.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/car...

"She would say that her brain felt as if a part of it was missing and asked me to check her skull for indentations." The lasting trauma of measles encephalitis. www.voicesforvaccines.org/measles-and-...

"Words do have power. Words are events, they do things, change things." "We can’t restructure our society without restructuring language. One reflects the other." (Ursula K. Le Guin, in 'The Wave in the Mind' and in Jonathan White's 'Talking on the Water.')

Read, learn, and teach because "rational thinking is the real driving force that underlies the institutional and technological changes [...] leading eventually to population-wide health improvement" #PopHealthLab @alfredomorabia.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Interruption de l'aide américaine au développement : 18 millions de cas de malaria supplémentaires, causant plus de 160 000 décès; 200 000 enfants paralysés à cause de la polio; un million d’enfants sans traitements pour sévère malnutrition.

Life course #epidemiology has changed the way we understand the causes of chronic diseases 😎 Do you want to know more⁉️ Read this review in @thelancetph.bsky.social @rosevdlinden.bsky.social @stephane-cullati.bsky.social @cristianmeli.bsky.social #PopHealthLab www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SoonInAJPH "Using surveillance data to estimate of infectious disease burden: opportunities and challenges" The utility of infectious disease models can be increased through enhanced sharing of both data and code used to develop these models.

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

Life course #epidemiology has changed the way we understand the causes of chronic diseases 😎 Do you want to know more⁉️ Read this review in @thelancetph.bsky.social @rosevdlinden.bsky.social @stephane-cullati.bsky.social @cristianmeli.bsky.social #PopHealthLab www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Very informative 👍 report on our healthcare systems 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇪🇺 #PROMs #qualityofcare #VBHC #PopHealthLab #monitoring #surveillance @stephane-cullati.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

"Quantitative causal inference in social epidemiology is an opportunity to do better science that matters, a win-win for both fields." #PopHealthLab @miguelhernan.org @epiellie.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social @cristianmeli.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

"The true value of academic health research lies in the ineffable foundational role it plays in enabling a country to thrive and grow" @drtomfrieden.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social #PopHealthLab #PopulationHealth #PublicHealth jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I'm frustrated with the messaging that indiscriminate firings at NIH and proposed decimation of research via changes to indirect rates are about increasing efficiency. Here are some thoughts on how to actually increase returns to NIH investments. shorturl.at/KnWU9 #EpiSky #ScienceSky

In the endless cyle of conjecture and refutation, a powerfull framework for consequential #epidemiology, "causal inferences cannot attain the certainty of logical deductions" by K.Rothman✅️ @societyforepi.bsky.social @epiellie.bsky.social #PopHealthLab ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS) Annual Conference 8 – 10 Sep 2025 University of Fribourg, Switzerland 🇨🇭 #PopHealthLab “Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies“ @sllshome.bsky.social projects.unifr.ch/pophealthlab...

“I’m scared to open my computer every morning,” says one EPA scientist who asked for anonymity because they fear reprisal. https://go.nature.com/3QldhTi