Liz Zuccala

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes 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 that hold attention in g...

The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes

@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com

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University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant

Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK

Heart attack signs look different in women. It affects the care they receive Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is narrowing.

Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is (slowly) narrowing:

www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

#genderequity

Very proud to have curated this Special Issue in the @mja.com.au on #gender & health.

Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

📢 New publication alert!
This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...

Advancing equity: the urgent need to include trans and gender diverse people in cervical cancer prevention in Australia Click on the article title to read more.

Honoured to be named on this paper just published in MJA, brilliantly led by Dr Kade Booth at UON. We articulate the urgent need to address inequity in cervical cancer prevention for trans Australians 🌈🎓

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health? Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.

Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction 🧪 when the first studies started coming out!

But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director

However bad you think things are at the CDC they are worse.

That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team.

Must-read.

www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

We need a circling of the wagons (journals) to support #CDC & against the weaponising of public health.

As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders.

It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...

Editorial published today by the Editors-in-Chief of the @agu.org journals:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."

This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...

Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.

Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
theconversation.com/australia-ha...

Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money In women, ‘atypical’ stroke symptoms can be overlooked, leaving them more vulnerable to misdiagnosis, delayed treatment and long-term harm.

Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money theconversation.com/paramedics-a...

Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist

The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

War wounds caused by explosive weapons in Gaza: data from a 2024 study by Médecins Sans Frontières As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians, wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people who live there.1 Triangula...

Today published in the @thelancet.com , our overview of medical consultation related to woud care over 2024 in Gaza, lot of trauma cause by explosive weapons that don't belong in Urban settings. Proud of our teams.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

The former vaccine panel members wrote in a commentary that Kennedy — a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before becoming the U.S. government’s top health official — and his new panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation.
apnews.com/article/vacc...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Scrolling EPA’s research newsletter. Huge impact everywhere.

Take this example of EPA showing common household cleaners may affect kids’ brain development 🧠

Now we won’t have that 🤷🏼‍♂️
www.epa.gov/sciencematte...

For the third time, Vinay Prasad reportedly overrules scientists and evidence-based policies

Decolonisation of global health must include civil society Power and resource imbalances experienced by African non-government organisations must be remedied to ensure that people with lived experience in the global south can participate meaningfully in creat...

“lived experience must be considered a form of expertise”

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM To the Editor: In their Sounding Board article (June 26 issue),1 Prasad and Makary ignore the fact that the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection extend beyond acute outcomes such as hospitalization and de...

Responses to the Sounding Board piece by Prasad and Makary are now posted:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Had I known that character limits would be so liberal I would have submitted a response, but these replies hit on all the key points.

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging population that could begin to shrink.

This headline blames women & defines declining fertility as a problem. A smaller global population & footprint on the planet benefits the environment. There is also more individual freedom, women's economic empowerment & less adolescents giving birth. www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...

Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study Transplantation equity requires a prioritised investment in system and quality improvements, from enhanced referral and assessment pathways to optimising all elements of care and ongoing accountabilit...

New @mja.com.au paper out now: Am I on the list?
Clinician-reported reasons for non-waitlisting in kidney transplantation

This is the first national analysis of the reasons why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aren't activated on the waitlist. Read more:

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Will miracle HIV drug go on the PBS? A new twice-yearly antiviral injection that can prevent HIV is likely to be approved soon in Australia. Making it affordable will be the next challenge.

“This is a dramatically powerful tool,” says Sharon Lewin, former president of the International AIDS Society. But cost, access, and policy remain the biggest hurdles to bringing the full benefits of antiretroviral HIV prevention drug lenacapavir to those who need it most. http://satpa.pe/A6Qj52w

How is the BBC doing a better job at this than any Australian news outlet? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature

At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.

Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”

Orban banned it, so even more people turned out