Cervantée Wild

A 29% cut to the Marsden Fund, plus major cuts to Endeavour, HRC and elsewhere 😠
With success rates already in single figures in some areas and funding not keeping pace with rising costs, this is devastating for New Zealand science

Expertly led by Alice MacLean with many dear colleagues, and Callum O'Dwyer providing valuable patient expertise

@oxprimarycare.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social

...for Long Covid participants, their patient status often lacked comparable authenticity in others' eyes, with a lack of recognition and understanding of their ongoing need to recover - challenging their claim to patient status or 'survivor identity'

For ICU participants, hospitalisation (especially ICU admission), conferred legitimate patient status and authenticity to their symptoms. Family, friends and healthcare profs acknowledged their illness, celebrated their survival, and granted them latitude to recover. BUT...

Rethinking ‘Recovery’: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of Experiences of Intensive Care With COVID and Long Covid in the United Kingdom Introduction Interpretations of ‘recovery’ from illness are complex and influenced by many factors, not least patient expectations and experiences. This paper examines meanings of ‘recovery’, and ho.....

New paper out unpacking the idea of 'recovery' among patients with Long Covid and those admitted to ICU & differences in baselines, waymarkers, pathways of experiences, & other people's responses to their illness

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.

"No matter the brand, the ingredients in baby formula are so highly regulated that all standard formulas are essentially the same."
Despite this, multinational dairy giants lobbied NZ ministers to weaken new rules meant to protect parents and babies.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Congratulations @gracearnot.bsky.social !!! Huge achievement 🎉

The review found that digital marketing techniques have a near universal reach & promote unhealthy food consumption, influencing children's consumption and food behaviour

Self-regulation of food marketing is ineffective in the online environment

The impact of the social media industry as a commercial determinant of health on the digital food environment for children and adolescents: a scoping review Introduction There is emerging evidence that the social media industry contributes to adverse health outcomes by shaping the digital food environment for children and adolescents (aged 0–18). The aim ...

Super proud to see @jesselafontaine.bsky.social's masters research published in @bmj.com Global Health

Scoping the research on the social media industry & the digital food environment for children and adolescents

gh.bmj.com/content/10/2...

@isabelhanson.bsky.social 🙌

Junk food ads flood children’s social media feeds, new study finds New research shows children and young people are bombarded with social media ads for junk food, which influence their food choices, but current rules do little to protect them.

📢 Children & young people are bombarded with junk food ads on social media – up to 200 times a week - but current rules do little to protect kids 🍔📱

Read more in the new research from @jesselafontaine.bsky.social, @cervanteewild.bsky.social & @isabelhanson.bsky.social 👇

#Healthcare #FoodMarketing

Transparency does not remove the public health concern - reporting a conflict does not take the conflict away

@docsamantha.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @katef224.bsky.social @ashleighhaynes.bsky.social @shanekavanagh.bsky.social @orkanokan.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social

Conflicts of interest in public health research and publications Providing communities and knowledge users with reliable, independent, and evidence-based information has always been a core function of public health (Thom

📝 New editorial in @healthpromint.bsky.social

We explore how journals can (& should) strengthen safeguards to protect editorial independence and research integrity

doi.org/10.1093/heap...

A reminder that @healthpromint.bsky.social is now accepting methods papers along with all our other terrific priority areas!

We would love to also see more papers related to women's health, health policy, youth health, and the climate crisis.

We also consider all types of review papers!

What support do people with long COVID need to return to work? People with long COVID can struggle to return to employment due to unpredictable symptoms. Interviews highlighted the problems they face.

Check out our research just featured by @nihr.bsky.social 🙌

What support do people with Long Covid need to return to work?

evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/what-s...

@oxprimarycare.bsky.social

"While it is critical to amplify patients’ voices, if the industry is funding patient organizations, then it calls into question: whose voice is being amplified?"

Timely piece from @maritahennessy.bsky.social & @jameslarkin13.bsky.social addressing commercial influence on PPI activities

Excellent array of articles published in the new Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health by @healthpromint.bsky.social edited by @docsamantha.bsky.social & others 🙌

📃Check out the Special Issue here: academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...

Back in Aotearoa! It has been a wonderful three years with @oxprimarycare.bsky.social & @greentempleton.bsky.social but now I'm home for new adventures thanks to the Auckland Medical Research Foundation

Looking forward to focusing on access to timely specialist services for children 🙌