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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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Meera Chand reflects on the systems leadership skills needed for infectious diseases incident response.
Full episode of our @ukhsa.bsky.social live conference session in partnership with @fphuk.bsky.social : open.spotify.com/episode/4SB8...
That's a wrap at the UK Health Security Agency conference! 🧵A thread of reflections on a special live episode in partnership with @fphuk.bsky.social, centred around stories and lessons in leadership and the future of public health. #UKHSA25 @ukhsa.bsky.social
We are at the UKHSA conference today! Come join our session in the Exchange hall at 6pm where we will be joined by Prof. Kevin Fenton, Prof. Yvonne Doyle and Dr. Meera Chand for a fireside discussion about leadership in Public Health. @ukhsa.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social #UKHSA25
🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Keir Starmer takes public HIV test in push to destigmatise testing for virus
Great opening address by Dr. Obaghe Edeghere at the UKHSA applied epidemiology conference. A reminder of purpose.
“We cannot simply study. We must use our knowledge to intervene for the betterment of human kind. Epidemiology is rooted in service. What we do matters”
F**k!
“PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
10/ The world cannot afford a weaker WHO. As global health faces unprecedented challenges, the international community must rally to support a resilient and robust WHO.
📢 Now is the time to act. Global health depends on it.
🇺🇸 #Apple's board has asked its investors to vote against a proposal to end its #Diversity, #Equity, and #Inclusion #DEI programmes.
Other major US firms, including Meta and Amazon, have bowed to #DonaldTrump’s criticism and rolled back DEI programmes
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Delighted to share our latest Ramadan paper in @thelancet.bsky.social G&H journal
This had taken some effort and very grateful to our authorship team and contributors to get this over the line
Please share to help colleagues who are managing these patients: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kQ348nByr...
Nominations for the FPH Awards & Prizes 2025 programme are open until 7 February!
Our awards and prizes celebrate the contributions and achievements of our members and the impact they have on improving the public's health.
Visit our website to learn more.
www.fph.org.uk/membership/a...
Update from Dr Tedros, the Director-General of WHO.
Thank you to all my friends, colleagues, and everyone who has wished me well during the ordeal in the past few days.
I'm especially grateful to the colleagues and airport staff, who were selfless as they tried to protect me.
#Yemen
NEW | The Oxford Colloquy; Trusting the Science with Matt Hancock.
Prof Andrew Pollard & Matt Hancock, former Secretary of State for Health, discuss public health policy, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine deal, and lockdown.
Available on most platforms.
https://ovg.to/podcasts
Speaking of commercial determinants of poor health, Nestle should win the top prize 🏆
Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, but not in western countries
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.
Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.
ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...
It truly boggles my mind that "tropical medicine" conferences continue to be hosted, year after year, in visa-hostile, high income countries
I really hope this field wakes up and reflects on who the real experts in tropical diseases are and why they need to lead
I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.
Very excited to be on the way to #ESCAIDE in Stockholm, and in particular to meet old and new EPIET/EUPHEM fellows 😄
On that note, if you are related to the fellowship and are not on this starter pack, let me know! go.bsky.app/EDqC8CG
Last week we sat down with Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz and Dr. David Walker - the candidates for the FPH Presidency.
Voting is open for Faculty of Public Health Members until Thursday 12 December
EP1 - Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz
youtu.be/MIoh47W7YUk?...
EP2 - Dr. David Walker
youtu.be/jM4tN1FA7Uo?...
Always enjoy your podcast suggestions! Thanks for sharing
For anyone preparing for the MFPH final exam of the #FPH (sometimes called OSPHE or Part B) can I recommend a little blog I wrote which is endorsed by the examiners. betterhealthforall.org/2019/08/05/t...
Twitter was like being at a great house party until the bully of the school turns up with his buddies to beat everyone up (& help get Trump elected). Bluesky is the house across the street where everybody moves to bc they just want to hang out, have a good time & listen and talk to people.
Recent post on why I abandoned 140,000 "followers": kucharski.substack.com/p/science-so...
Hello BlueSky!
Hello BlueSky world! Well, this place seems nice! :)
Looking to connect with others interested in applying Large Language Models and agentic workflows to surveillance and outbreak response. Any suggestions? #IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology
Absolutely delighted to announce that afcharts is now available on CRAN. Very proud of my team who worked on this, building on the excellent work by Scottish Government colleagues. Share far and wide with your gov analysis colleagues! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
