Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
My latest for IWI: "Israel’s tactical success in Iran points to a country that has tremendous intelligence penetration that it chooses to use in some contexts and neglects to use in others—with thousands of Gazans now paying the ultimate price." irregularwarfare.org/articles/isr...
#decolonisation
The gaze reversed
Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and places... in global health.
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🇪🇺 Latest: European Public Health #BlueSky Starter Pack:
🆕 European Parliament Committee on #PublicHealth @sant.europarl.europa.eu
🆕 #TheLancet Regional Health - Europe @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social
🆕 MEPs for #WomensHealth @mepsforwomenhealth.bsky.social
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What’s unnerving is the hybrid of traditional and compulsory visibility-
Foucault: “Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested. Disciplinary power… is exercised through its invisibility… it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility.”
How can we address increasing harms, including overdose, from #methamphetamine and other amphetamine type stimulants? Join us for our upcoming webinar, presented by NDARC's A/Prof Amy Peacock and Emeritus Prof Shane Darke → cracksintheice.org.a...
Amidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week!
Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Friends, a few months ago I asked you all to share what your thoughts on what would improve the health of Americans for a project Defend Public Health was working on. You answered, and we listened.
Today, we released our report, Improving the Health of Americans together. You can read it here.
Police shooting underscores urgency of reforms to ensure health-led responses to mental health crises www.croakey.org/police-shoot...
Governments urged to invest in keeping people out of prison, instead of criminalising poverty, homelessness and disadvantage www.croakey.org/governments-...
Important to know what is happening
Colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) are advertising for a permanent, full-time lectureship in Criminology.
#Criminology #Academia
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT331/l...
Join us!
ACOG joins @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social in observing #BlackMaternalHealthWeek. Black women are 3–4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a public health crisis. ACOG is committed to fighting inequities in maternal care. #BMHW25
Check out the agenda for this global health course!!
You can still apply & no visa required!
www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Reminder: The Program Committee of #LEPH2025 (13-16 July 2025, Ottawa) is calling for #ABSTRACTS and #PROPOSALS SUBMISSION from individuals, agencies and networks.
31 March 2025 – Call for abstracts closed
30 April 2025 – Selected abstracts notified by the Program Committee
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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION till 3️⃣1️⃣ March for the Seventh International Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health (#LEPH2025, 13-16 July 2025, Ottawa)!
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📢 Reminder 📢
#LEPH2025 Call for Abstracts: Deadline 31st March!
Submissions for #LEPH2025 are still open! If you’re working in the space of law enforcement and public health, don't miss out on this opportunity.
For more information, visit: leph2025ottawa.com/call-for-abs...
Register now #Canada 🇨🇦
📢 Last Chance to Submit! #LEPH2025 Call for Abstracts closes on March 31st!
If you’re working in the space of #LawEnforcement and #PublicHealth, now’s your chance to share your insights and be part of a global conversation.
Don’t miss out—submit your abstract today:
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Well done!!
Our findings highlight how a variety of structural factors (explored in the paper), most notably a lack of service provision for people who smoke drugs, exacerbates overdose risk and vulnerability and creates challenges for staff seeking to ensure the safety of residents.
Excited to share the first empirical paper from my PhD just out in the @cjphrcsp.bsky.social 🎉 A huge thank you to @bchrisinger.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social and @gwshorter.bsky.social for their support on this research.
Chicago is the exoneration epicenter because of repeated police misconduct (Burge, Watts, Guevara), and last week a federal jury ordered the city to pay $120 million to two men who spent a combined 32 years in prison - a new city record for a wrongful conviction case.
news.wttw.com/2025/03/10/j...
UN CND day 1 THREAD🧵
I'm representing @Transformdrugs at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna this week #CND68.
Watch this CND primer video from @IDPCnet www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ3...
Ill be live-posting as much as possible, here & on X(sorry) @stevetransform
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“An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death”
This deadly hemorrhagic fever is spreading fast. Meanwhile, Elon is prancing around stage at CPAC with his chainsaw gleefully laughing at dismantling global public health infrastructure.
Join us!
