"Vaccine hesitancy matters, but barriers to access are being systematically overlooked."
Systemic weaknesses lost the UK its measles elimination status
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
"Research should not only be independent of vested interests but must also be seen to be so"
My @bmj.com piece with @fphuk.bsky.social president Tracy Daszkiewicz argues we need a public health approach to study the impact of digital technology on health.
#CDOH
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At the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the US is pushing to remove references to climate change and gender-responsive justice from the outcome document, raising concerns about weakening global commitments to women’s rights.
✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@unfpa.org #WomensRights
📖⬇️ & 🔁
Troubling measles and flu stats this week. 1,300 measles cases in the US. 11 more pediatric flu deaths - 90 total for the season - 85% in kids not fully vaccinated. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/troubling-...
'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2
We're spending $1 billion per day on war as millions of working people struggle to get by.
Meanwhile, America's ultra-rich have never been richer.
So now New Zealand has wrapped its COVID-19 inquiry.
Canada, not so much, eh? 🤔
"Accountability for Canada’s covid-19 response" www.bmj.com/canada-covid...
cc @jocalynclark.bsky.social
remember fifa is on the “board of peace”
No clear objective, no clear exit - and an unfolding humanitarian disaster.
Artificial dumbness.
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
The #IWD2026 theme is rallying, but rights & justice cannot be taken for granted.
Rights are not self-executing. Justice is not self-sustaining.
With gender justice under threat, all of us fighting for health equity & gender equality must act collectively, with discipline & resolve.
Pls share:
It sounds hand-wringingly lefty because it is a universal truth. There is always money for bombs and never money for desperate people
Fletcher travels the world pleading for pennies down the couch so people don’t starve to death. $6bn a year
The US just spent that in five days bombing Iran
In the eyes of many Shia Muslims, the US-Israeli war on Iran feels a lot like a war on their religion.
"When they killed Khamenei, it’s like they killed our pope."
My report from Beirut
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
No happy #IWD 2026 marked by the grim reality that it took a dead man’s emails for the world to believe the testimonies of 100s of women & girls.
I urge scrutiny of how Epstein’s cabal & abuse have been health-washed
And for more attention to the survivors of #VAW 👇
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Leadership change du jour in our federal health agencies. www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/f...
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
I’m going to try this the next time I submit a paper to a journal (or my boss) - my conclusions and perfect prose: unreviewable.
MAGA Masculinity, in 3 steps:
1. Change DoD to "Dept of War" & act all butch abt it
2. Take pleasure in US bombs & drones killing ppl
3. As soon as someone calls your violence "war," shriek like a wounded little bitch.
Friday writing day. On the future of WHO and the impending race for next Director-General, what are we thinking about those rumoured candidates and their suitability for the top job. Insider or outsider? Technocrat or diplomat? Anyone in your orbit - bet they’re closer than you think 🤔 #WHS2025
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
Beautiful obit of our friend & fellow @bmj.com editor Tessa Richards, in which Richard shares her favourite utterly apt quote:
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” EB White
Thank you to @kristofdecoster.bsky.social for calling out lack of leadership & scrutiny about the troubling Gates/Epstein axis for global health including from the usual suspects
A key governance issue to add to collection of perils facing global health - & needs more attention I absolutely agree.
Citing our new commentary analysing the re-activation of authoritarianism, weaponising of gender, and need for new coalitions.
Great image selection by @thelancet.com team! We will not be silenced.
“To protect health and advance societies as a whole means to protect and advance gender equity”
NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.
*see next post in thread
