Techniques to reflect an additional small portion of sunlight back into space could help cool the planet if deployed globally, but they cannot address the full range of climate impacts or replace emission cuts, says our new briefing released this week: bit.ly/4oX7yCA

The impacts of disrupted #circadianrhythms on #health

Did US #covid19 mask mandates work 🧐? Using data from over 34,000 people in the weeks before and after mandates, authors use #interruptedtimeseries approaches and show that as a behaviour change mechanism, mandates might need some work... #PublicHealth academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Are deadly mosquitoes, pathogen laden ticks, and waterborne infections being brought to the UK by #climatechange? www.bmj.com/content/391/...

We end this #BlackHistoryMonth2025 series with Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, multi-award winning British space scientist and physicist who'll be giving the 2025 @rigb.org #Christmas Lecture! www.rigb.org/explore-scie... Tickets: www.rigb.org/whats-on/dis...

Professor Isabella Oyier leads critical and high profile work on malaria parasite #genomics at @ox.ac.uk and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme #BlackHistoryMonth2025 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/isabell...

Did you see this? The editors-in-chief of @IntJEpidemiol discussed the #Trump administration's approach to science, and how it's affecting the fields of #epidemiology and #publichealth 👇 academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology is the newest #OpenAccess journal from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. A good home for papers on emerging methods incl. #socialepi #spatialepi academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...

Prof Patricia Bath's (1942-2019) groundbreaking work in #opthalmology pushed for better research and treatment options for black people with sight conditions - in whom she and others demonstrated were already at higher risk of #blindness 👇 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Prof Khalid Beshir leads vital work building capacity and global resilience against #biological #threats. His #genomic tools power local labs across Africa and Asia — helping detect and respond to emerging pathogens faster. www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

The global outbreak of mpox began in May 2022 and continues to this day. Mpox clades in Africa - map #globalhealth www.gov.uk/guidance/cla...

We're in the @thelancet.com ! Richard Horton's editorial provides urgent context to Prof Victora's #PumphandleLecture - a call for critical research to continue even under difficult circumstances.

Prof Cesar Victora, the keynote speaker for our latest Society #PumphandleLecture made his own pilgrimage to a historic John Snow MD site - the Broad Street pump and Pub in Soho, London. 🍻 The recording of his excellent talk will be available soon. 📡 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Professor Toyin Togun of the @lshtm.bsky.social is leading critical work on the development of a unique biosignature to distinguish childhood #TB from other diseases. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... Leading to a major @ukri.org award 👇🏼 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/uni... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

#Perspective in @Nature - how #AI will change the landscape for #infectiousdisease #modelling

A transformative programme treats #knifecrime as a #PublicHealth problem with drivers and risk groups who can benefit from respectful interventions. Led by @martinpgriff @LDN_VRU londonviolencereduction.nhs.uk/fighting-kni... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Because you asked... another #BehindTheScenes photo from the John Snow Society 2025 #PumphandleLecture, this with Society steering committee members Paul and William contemplating the empty plinth before the return of the pump.

Caribbean Women and the NHS @england.nhs.uk #BlackHistoryMonth #PublicHealth www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/sect...

Another #BehindTheScenes picture from this year's #PumphandleLecture. Prof Victora and his wife having tea and biscuits with @lshtm.bsky.social 's Liam (Director) and Caroline (pro-Director, Reseach), John Snow Society co-Chair Charlie, and founders Paul and Jimmy 🫖🍰

"Racism as one of the most consequential transnational phenomena to impact the health and lives of afflicted communities globally." The @thelancet.com commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #blackhistorymonth2025 #PublicHealth

Professor Cesar Victora's #PumphandLecture on Tuesday was a triumph - he showed us it's possible to contribute major advances to public health even from our own backyards. Here's his ceremonial removal of the pumphandle (iconic already?) We'll add more developments from the night!

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay2025 Watch the webinar "Access to mental health in emergencies"

@seyeabimbola 's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on #GlobalHealth is one of our recommended reads this month. And it comes with its own playlist (we approve). #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...

The John Snow Society @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social · now Recommended listen🔊: Public Health Disrupted podcast with Professor Rochelle Burgess and Dr Carrie Ryan - Ageing Playfully. #Blackhistorymonth2025 #ageing #epidemiology

In a new preprint (NOT PEER REVIEWED) we continue to explore the challenge of overtreatment in community screening. It seems the benefits of TB treatment far outweigh the harms, especially once we accept that sputum culture is not perfect. Important food for thought. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

TODAY is the #PumphandleLecture at 5.30pm in the John Snow Theatre and online at the @LSHTM Keynote by Professor Cesar Victora: "From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" johnsnowsociety.org/2025/10/03/2...

Tomorrow is the Society #PumphandleLecture in the John Snow Lecture Theatre @lshtm.bsky.social. Dr Cesar Victora will give the keynote: "From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" Details here 👇🏼:

Potential association between spread of LED lighting and reduced lunar alignment with menstrual cycles. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #publichealth #epidemiology

Happy #Blackhistorymonth2025 (GB)! We'll be signposting to outputs of many many excellent #publichealth researchers, exhibitions and cool health history pieces during October.

Oversimplified efforts to counter health misinformation are missing the mark. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Covid-19 inadvertently raises the profile of #epidemiology as an important discipline - to understand and contain viral spread, but also to combat #misinformation - infographic by @WHO #publichealth

Ibn al-Nafis a 13th century Arab polymath of the Islamic Golden Age and his contributions to #epidemiology. Great Monday read: www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-...

Noticing lots of cold symptoms and cases of the sniffles? 🤧 We're seeing a sharp increase in rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, as shown in our latest weekly data. This isn't unexpected for this time of year when kids go back to school and mixing increases.

Health misinformation on social media could lead to a 'sicker UK' experts warn. #Misinformtion #PublicHealth www.independent.co.uk/news/health/health-misinformation-social-media-london-school-hygiene-b2826764.html

Paper by Kristin Gustavson et al 2021 shows value of sibling controls and confounding in #epidemiology - No evidence for link between tylenol and ADHD acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Trump #tylenol #autism #adhd

A key approach used to address anti-vaccination #misinformation in the USA was leafletting and pamphlets, particularly in rural areas. Below detail from from a 1930 USA government brochure.

An 1803 cartoon by satirist James Gillray shows Edward Jenner vaccinating a patient with a sharp lancet. Other recent vaccinees display various side effects including sprouting horns or turning into cows. #Misinformation #PublicHealth

The Boxing Day cholera riot in 1831 Aberdeen is a perfect historical example of the dangers of pandemic-related #misinformation. Many suspected "Burke and Hare" style body snatching on the part of medics. Many cholera riots occurred in Europe (detail from Russia in LePetit) (FBF post - JSS on X)

By the early 1900s smallpox vaccination averted many child deaths in the UK. 🦠📉 BUT - invasive vaccination methods + poor sterilisation led to intense backlash. The anti-vax movement spread to Americas and Europe. #PublicHealth #Misinformation 1900s anti-vax poster - France

The UK government made vaccination mandatory in 1853, directly precipitating the organised 'anti-vax' movement. Opposition came on many grounds - including religious, political or ideological concerns. #PublicHealth #Misinformation 1900s UK cartoon poking fun at vaccination and 'quack' cures.

Look out for our additional upcoming posts on the history of #Publichealth #Misinformation🧐📊📰🦠 Also, if you can, check out the below event TONIGHT *Misinformation UNPACKED* - some online tickets are still available! bsky.app/profile/lsht...

Edwin Chadwick's 1842 "Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain" was initially prompted by the high rates of cholera in poor UK households. His cholera dot map illustrated the overlap between cholera and poverty in Leeds. #cholera #poverty

Japan sets a new record of nearly 100,000 people aged over 100 - and 88% are women. Mainly attributed to active lifestyles, and a diet high in fish and vegetables. New centenarians are celebrated with a national holiday today (15th), aka "Elder Day" 👴 👵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 25 days time..... #2025PumphandleLecture Find out more:

New tool to combat misinformation: Speak with an AI chatbot. New paper out in Science magazine @science.org

A well researched summary of the evidence for Florence Nightingale's voluntary secondment to Middlesex Hospital during the 1854 cholera outbreak: johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/documentUplo...

Accuracy in the vein of John Snow MD

📢The 2025 Pumphandle Lecture will be given by: Dr Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil!! "From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil." More information to come.

James Hargreaves, co-Chair of the Society testing out a new guided walk in London past points of key historical public health interest - and ending at the John Snow pub of course! Here with 11 visiting students from Cal Poly University

Major highlight/motif of the John Snow Musical "Something in the Water" is the song 🎼Three Lines 🎶 (below) Refers @thelancet.com obituary by then editor Thomas Wakley - just three sentences and 40 words long, on Dr Snow's death. An injustice corrected: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...