didn't realise this short documentary about Central Asia featuring yours truly (and shot in my new UCL office) is already out!
Also in a great company with Alexander Morrisson, Madeleine Reeves, and Paul Wordsworth!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXc...
The World Health Organization building
The World Health Organization will slash its budget for 2026-27 by more than a fifth after the US withdrew, and other nations reduced, its funding.
WHO reportedly plans to cut back the scale of its projects and workforce to tackle a funding gap of nearly $600m this year
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
@dr-esme-louise.bsky.social can you post this over here on BlueSky as well? Itβs fun and fascinating!
βIn these challenging times, the global health community is
fortunate to count on John Green and his inspiring advocacy.β
My review of 'Everything is Tuberculosis' by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, published in @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
For public health, this means water scarcity, food insecurity due to loss of fishing and agriculture, and increased risk of waterborne disease, among other issues.
This World Water Day 2025, March 22, calls for βGlacier Preservationβ to protect water security, health, and ecosystems. #WorldWaterDay
In Venezuelaβs Sierra Nevada de MΓ©rida, the Humboldt Glacier has shrunk to a small ice field, marking the loss of the countryβs last glacier. It no longer has sufficient weight to flow downstream. Glaciers serve as natural freshwater reserves and feed river systems, vital to public health.
Every aspect of history is in some way contested or βcontroversial.β
Please keep us up to date on this. It sounds awful!
Gender equality is more important than ever as the world increasingly embraces views that restrict women's rights & opportunities. To improve health, women and men need to show support for inclusive and gender-responsive policies in all sectors, including education, employment & the workforce #IWD
IWD Accelerate Action poster
March 8 marks International Womenβs Day, with this yearβs theme, Accelerate Action, linked to women's health. Maternal mortality, reproductive rights, violence, & healthcare access remain critical issues. Women are the backbone of the health workforce but remain underrepresented in leadership. #IWD
And then thereβs the global academic publishing industry, in which many people from the global south cannot read the very same publications to which they contributed their data, experiences, and insights.
All provided for free for the enrichment of others.
Actually they forgot to include a dozen or so cancers and other NCDs that vaccines also help to prevent.
Maridaβs response significantly underplays the broader misinformation that RFK spreads about vaccines, including polio and measles, which are crucial.
Donβt have smallpox or polio? Thank the World Health Organization. For its many accomplishments: www.who.int/campaigns/75...
*Someone* is feeling all powerful and can destroy orgs by defunding, so today, Iβm asserting my (tiny) power by donating to @Who.int
Alone weβre tiny, together weβre big.
Battling misinformation and disinformation
naccurate information about diseases, treatments and vaccines undermines trust in science and public health. It threatens global health by distorting public perception and eroding confidence in evidence-based policies. During emergencies and conflicts, misinformation exacerbates health crises by fostering confusion and fear and diverting resources from a coordinated response. This erosion of public trust is leaving populations vulnerable to preventable diseases and fueling inequities.
WHO continues to fight against misinformation and disinformationβa great challenge to global health. Governments, health agencies, and partners need to safeguard public trust by responding to misinformation and disinformation directly and effectively.
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
Health of the world should never be reliant on any one country
Global South governments must invest more in health and become less reliant on aid
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/h...
"I had classmates who came to school crawling, relying on crutches or specialized wheelchairs."
A polio epidemiologist explains why he fights to prevent what he saw growing up. www.voicesforvaccines.org/a-polio-epid...
In our latest episode of #SharedHumanity, Dean @meganranney.bsky.social answers the question, what is public health anyway?
Dean Ranney and @nelbamg.bsky.social also discuss firearm injury as a public health issue and how they continue to find hope. Watch or listen at sph.yale.edu/SharedHumanity.
It is looking increasingly likely the way global north countries are pushing climate change, is directly harming poverty reduction. We haven't properly grappled with how climate requirements are harming human capital, and how climate financing is taking money from poverty, health and education 1/n
Smoke clouds over a black background. Text reads: "Up in smoke. The unravelling of world-leading policy changes in Smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand" "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health"
Aotearoa NZ set a global precedent in 2022 by moving to implement #tobacco endgame measures. These have since been repealed.
This new commentary calls for "a return to evidence to ensure the continued improvement of public health and reduction of avoidable inequities."
doi.org/10.1016/j.an... π
Despite being non-binding and the result of an internationally negotiated process, many countries β including Australia, Italy, Hungary and the United States - have refused to sign on.
Calling on governments to support the agreement would be a good way to acknowledge IMD.
The Global Compact calls on countries to integrate migrants' health needs into healthcare policies by enhancing services for physical and mental health, ensuring equitable access, reducing communication barriers, and training providers in culturally sensitive care.
Since 2000, there have been important initiatives to protect migrants at the point of departure, during migration and in their host countries. This includes the Global Compact for Migration. Despite this, more migrant deaths and disappearances were reported in 2023 than in any previous year.
Happy International Migrants Day everyone! The first migration day was held on December 18, 2000, and was designed to draw global attention to the risk, status and contributions of migrants around the world, as well as the need to provide assistance to migrants in distress.
OK, I had to try it! I gave ChattyG a few recent abstracts, my CV & bio, & links to my social profiles. Here's my #AcademicSky #roast, with my favorite part (guilty as roasted) highlighted:
I have tried to outline a "capital theory of race" here.
The paper's historical argument in a nutshell: "even though the panic over the βyellow perilβ was coded in the language of insurmountable difference, that is, race, the social logic of that threat was one of equivalence, that is, capital."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20159872/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
