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Public Health is my jam (and my day job) but opinions are my own. Clinical Lecturer, Public Health Registrar, and current NHS Clinical AI Fellow.

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Hugely grateful to NHS Education for Scotland for funding the NHS Clinical Fellowship in AI which facilitated this work, and to the Digital Health Validation Lab in
@nhsggc.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social
for hosting me! #radiology #AI #digitalhealth #sustainability [5/5]

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πŸ–₯️ However, there was little consistency in how outcomes were reported, and no studies compared climate outcomes of clinical pathways with and without AI. We argue for better integration of environmental impact assessment into AI health research and evaluation [4/5]

08.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🌳 All studies reporting environmental measures evaluated AI algorithms designed to be resource efficient, comparing them with state-of-the-art alternatives. They found large reductions in emissions (2-17x) and energy use (2-752x) could be achieved without reducing clinical performance [3/5]

08.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🩻 Despite increasing concern about AI's climate impacts, environmental outcomes are rarely measured in evaluations of AI-enabled clinical pathways: only 18/4449 studies mentioned sustainability (typically in a single sentence) and only 6 quantitatively measured any environmental outcomes [2/5]

08.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evaluating the environmental sustainability of AI in radiology: a systematic review of current practice Objective Data-heavy and energy-heavy artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being applied in healthcare, particularly for clinical imaging, often without consideration of their en...

🚨 New paper: Our systematic review evaluating current practice in measuring environmental sustainability impacts of AI in radiology is now published in BMJ Digital Health and AI: doi.org/10.1136/bmjd...

Key findings below πŸ‘‡ [1/5]

08.10.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Flyer advertising the next CIIG seminar. "Defining income as a causal exposure" with Erik IgelstrΓΆm at 3pm GMT on 20th January 2025.

Flyer advertising the next CIIG seminar. "Defining income as a causal exposure" with Erik IgelstrΓΆm at 3pm GMT on 20th January 2025.

DON'T MISS: "Defining income as a causal exposure" with @igelstorm.bsky.social at 3pm (GMT) on 20th Jan 2025.

The first in the 2025 Turing Causal Inference Interest Group Seminar Series!

Sign up: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join mailing list: jiscmail.ac.uk/CIIG

#CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky

09.01.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6
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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of clim...

πŸ“£ New article just in time for Christmas! 🎁

Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being

doi.org/10.1136/jech...

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20.12.2024 08:47 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

04.12.2024 19:36 πŸ‘ 37319 πŸ” 7064 πŸ’¬ 563 πŸ“Œ 783

Having finally made the leap over here, feels like as good a time as any to publicise this recent podcast where I was interviewed about our research modelling how #UniversalBasicIncome might influence #MentalHealth in the UK! '15 Minutes on Health Inequalities', wherever you get your podcasts πŸŽ™

03.12.2024 13:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Claire, this is really helpful! Could you add me?

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