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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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Meera Chand reflects on the systems leadership skills needed for infectious diseases incident response.

Full episode of our @ukhsa.bsky.social live conference session in partnership with @fphuk.bsky.social : open.spotify.com/episode/4SB8...

That's a wrap at the UK Health Security Agency conference! 🧵A thread of reflections on a special live episode in partnership with @fphuk.bsky.social, centred around stories and lessons in leadership and the future of public health. #UKHSA25 @ukhsa.bsky.social

We are at the UKHSA conference today! Come join our session in the Exchange hall at 6pm where we will be joined by Prof. Kevin Fenton, Prof. Yvonne Doyle and Dr. Meera Chand for a fireside discussion about leadership in Public Health. @ukhsa.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social #UKHSA25

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Keir Starmer takes public HIV test in push to destigmatise testing for virus Prime minister takes home test at No 10 with soul singer Beverley Knight to promote HIV Testing Week Keir Starmer has taken a public HIV test in an effort to destigmatise testing for the virus and to highlight HIV Testing Week. The prime minister took a…

Keir Starmer takes public HIV test in push to destigmatise testing for virus

Great opening address by Dr. Obaghe Edeghere at the UKHSA applied epidemiology conference. A reminder of purpose.

“We cannot simply study. We must use our knowledge to intervene for the betterment of human kind. Epidemiology is rooted in service. What we do matters”

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

F**k!

“PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

10/ The world cannot afford a weaker WHO. As global health faces unprecedented challenges, the international community must rally to support a resilient and robust WHO.

📢 Now is the time to act. Global health depends on it.

Apple board pushes against diversity rollback call The tech giant has asked investors to reject a proposal from a conservative group to end its DEI policies.

🇺🇸 #Apple's board has asked its investors to vote against a proposal to end its #Diversity, #Equity, and #Inclusion #DEI programmes.

Other major US firms, including Meta and Amazon, have bowed to #DonaldTrump’s criticism and rolled back DEI programmes

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Delighted to share our latest Ramadan paper in @thelancet.bsky.social G&H journal

This had taken some effort and very grateful to our authorship team and contributors to get this over the line

Please share to help colleagues who are managing these patients: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kQ348nByr...

Annual awards and prizes - FPH Read more about the annual membership awards and prizes. Every year, we ask our Fellows to nominate brilliant Public Health professionals to join FPH.

Nominations for the FPH Awards & Prizes 2025 programme are open until 7 February!

Our awards and prizes celebrate the contributions and achievements of our members and the impact they have on improving the public's health.

Visit our website to learn more.

www.fph.org.uk/membership/a...

Update from Dr Tedros, the Director-General of WHO.

Thank you to all my friends, colleagues, and everyone who has wished me well during the ordeal in the past few days.

I'm especially grateful to the colleagues and airport staff, who were selfless as they tried to protect me.

#Yemen

NEW | The Oxford Colloquy; Trusting the Science with Matt Hancock.

Prof Andrew Pollard & Matt Hancock, former Secretary of State for Health, discuss public health policy, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine deal, and lockdown.

Available on most platforms.
https://ovg.to/podcasts

Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds Swiss food firm’s infant formula and cereal sold in global south ignore WHO anti-obesity guidelines for Europe, says Public Eye

Speaking of commercial determinants of poor health, Nestle should win the top prize 🏆

Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, but not in western countries

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We've made it much easier to reuse our data An overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data.

Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API.

ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...

It truly boggles my mind that "tropical medicine" conferences continue to be hosted, year after year, in visa-hostile, high income countries

I really hope this field wakes up and reflects on who the real experts in tropical diseases are and why they need to lead

I can't find African Scientists and researchers easily on here. As the second largest continent with 1.3 billion inhabitants our perspectives matter. I'm creating a starterpack to find folks, follow them and amplify them. If you are an African Scientist let me know below so I can add you. Thanks.

Very excited to be on the way to #ESCAIDE in Stockholm, and in particular to meet old and new EPIET/EUPHEM fellows 😄

On that note, if you are related to the fellowship and are not on this starter pack, let me know! go.bsky.app/EDqC8CG

YouTube video by UK Faculty of Public Health FPH President Candidate Interview: David Walker

EP2 - Dr. David Walker
youtu.be/jM4tN1FA7Uo?...

YouTube video by UK Faculty of Public Health FPH President Candidate Interview: Tracy Daszkiewicz

Last week we sat down with Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz and Dr. David Walker - the candidates for the FPH Presidency.

Voting is open for Faculty of Public Health Members until Thursday 12 December

EP1 - Prof. Tracy Daszkiewicz
youtu.be/MIoh47W7YUk?...

EP2 - Dr. David Walker
youtu.be/jM4tN1FA7Uo?...

Always enjoy your podcast suggestions! Thanks for sharing

Top 10 Part B Exam Tips from Kevin Smith (Part B Examiner) The Faculty of Public Health Part B Membership exam is the final stage of the route to membership of the Faculty through examination, but by no means the last step of becoming a Specialist in Publi…

For anyone preparing for the MFPH final exam of the #FPH (sometimes called OSPHE or Part B) can I recommend a little blog I wrote which is endorsed by the examiners. betterhealthforall.org/2019/08/05/t...

Twitter was like being at a great house party until the bully of the school turns up with his buddies to beat everyone up (& help get Trump elected). Bluesky is the house across the street where everybody moves to bc they just want to hang out, have a good time & listen and talk to people.

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky

Recent post on why I abandoned 140,000 "followers": kucharski.substack.com/p/science-so...

Hello BlueSky!

Hello BlueSky world! Well, this place seems nice! :)

Looking to connect with others interested in applying Large Language Models and agentic workflows to surveillance and outbreak response. Any suggestions? #IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology

afcharts: Produce Charts Following UK Government Analysis Function Guidance Colour palettes and a 'ggplot2' theme to follow the UK Government Analysis Function best practice guidance for producing data visualisations, available at &lt;<a href="https://analysisfunction.civilse...

Absolutely delighted to announce that afcharts is now available on CRAN. Very proud of my team who worked on this, building on the excellent work by Scottish Government colleagues. Share far and wide with your gov analysis colleagues! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...