Sari Kovats

Interested in MSc Public Health for Eye Care or MSc Public Health for Global Practice?

Applications open via the FCDO UK for candidates from lower-middle income commonwealth countries to gain skills to support sustainable development.

Apply by 9 Dec 2025👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Applications are open for the Joint PhD Programme for Global Health @lshtm.bsky.social with Nagasaki University!

Students benefit from a community of global researchers & expertise in international public health & tropical medicine.

Apply by 9 Jan 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/resear...

Agnes Soares (right), Director of Environmental Health Surveillance and Worker Health (DSAST/SVSA) with Aline do Monte Gurgel (left), REACH project Reseacher at COP 30, Brazil.

At #COP30 🌍, our researcher Aline do Monte Gurgel engaged with Agnes Soares, Director of Environmental Health Surveillance and Worker Health (DSAST/SVSA) at Brazil’s Ministry of Health, already familiar with our work! We presented our COP 30 report and look forward to continued engagement.

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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Slide with text “Support Society Journals: Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

As the POTUS claims climate change is a 'scam', what's the truth about climate conspiracies & dis/misinformation?

Join us, @pallavis.bsky.social & @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social on 9 October to unpack the impact of climate disinfo on public opinion, media, politics & everyday life.

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Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism

Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

At LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED event experts discussed the threat of false or misleading health information

Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.

📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...

#PublicHealth

What is climate disinformation and how can cities fight back?

From Amsterdam banning fossil fuel adverts to Kingston, California challenging misconceptions about urban traffic, cities around the world are stepping up to safeguard their residents.

Fighting climate disinformation is climate action.

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

PLOS Climate: Submit to our Focus Topic on Misinformation and Disinformation - Latitude PLOS Climate is calling for submissions for a new focus topic on Climate Misinformation and Disinformation. The unprecedented spread of misinformation and…

Reminder: we're calling for submissions for a new Focus Topic on misinformation and disinformation. Read more 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/08/plos...

Our new EUPHA website is live! 🎉

It’s more than a redesign — it’s your gateway to Europe’s public health community.
RSVP events, join Sections, read the latest news & research, all in your language.
👉 Explore: eupha.org

AGU is partnering with the @ipcc.bsky.social‬ to expand access to climate research for authors of the Seventh Assessment Report.

All IPCC authors will now have full access to AGU publications — helping ensure global, equitable scientific contributions. 🌍📚

🔗 buff.ly/N4DvcCS

#AGU #IPCC

As States Continue to Fail Workers, We Need Federal Heat Protections It's getting hotter. And states keep blocking heat protections for outdoor workers—including, most recently, Kentucky.

"While heat is the leading cause of weather-related death, heat injury and mortality can be prevented if cautionary measures are taken. Currently, there is no federal mandate requiring employers to provide workers adequate water, rest, or shade despite such a proposal being supported by voters."

Water shortage in England declared "Nationally Significant Incident" as climate-change induced hot, dry weather continues

Many areas in drought conditions with bans on hosepipe use

Outlook for rain remains below normal

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

⏰ HAPPENING TODAY: Online #webinar at 2-4pm EAT!

🔗 Register now bit.ly/3TUbVRq to join a conversation that will shape #SoAR2025 & influence the road to #COP30.

Co-organised with ARIN & STEP Change metrics working group

@southsouthnorth.org @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social @lisamcnamara.bsky.social

How famine and starvation can affect Gazans for generations to come Research on WWII's Dutch “Hunger Winter” has terrifying implications for the region's children—and for their children.

The babies who were conceived during the famine and whose mothers were undernourished while their brains were being built—those brains were smaller. When those people were adults, their brains were wired in a different way.

Heat waves make the news when they impact Global North countries

Constant, extreme heat is a daily fact of life for billions in the Global South

🌍 Join the #IPCC in Nairobi!

📅 Monday, 14 July
🕤 9:30 AM – 1:45 PM
📍 UoN Towers, 5th Floor, University of Nairobi

The University of Nairobi is holding a unique public lecture and outreach event with the IPCC Chair Jim Skea and leading IPCC experts.

📢 Open to the public!

Heat is killing tens to hundreds of thousands of people every year, but the true burden remains unclear.

This week in London, global experts are working to create standardized metrics for heat-related illness and death.

Subscribe to follow the project: ghhin.org/subscribe/

PLOS Climate: call for submissions on heat and health - Latitude The editors of PLOS Climate’s Health section are calling for submissions on the theme of heat and health.  As the impacts of…

Did you hear? The editors of PLOS Climate's Health section are calling for submissions on heat and health.

Read more 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

New profile series maps action on Extreme Heat across the UN system Increasing awareness and capacity to better manage and adapt to the health risks of dangerously hot weather in a changing climate.

heathealth.info/news/new-pro...

Reform UK-run Lincolnshire County Council scraps flood committee - BBC News The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.

Wake-up call…

Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years

Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee

This is who they are

Please wake up to this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schematic overview of Core GRADE

Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to rating certainty of evidence in intervention effects

This first article in a seven part series presents an overview of the essential elements of the GRADE approach that has proved useful in systematic reviews, health technology assessment reports, and clinical practice guidelines
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear - Eos NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.

Here is an article and a list of NOAA datasets expected to end and be unavailable in the next few weeks. Please make sure you get in and download what you need!!
eos.org/research-and...

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast How Solar Is Saving Babies’ Lives in Sierra Leone — Ep204: Project Bo

PV for a neonatal unit. This must be one of the most effective aid projects conceivable, in terms of lives saved per $ spent. Any academics out there want to work on quantifying it?

Please RT.

youtu.be/yMxJzLNc214?...

Trump budget cuts would eliminate much of NOAA’s climate research Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US

Proposed cuts by the Trump administration would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US

Urban Health in Africa

Edited by Elaine O. Nsoesie and Blessing Mberu

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

PLOS Climate: call for submissions on heat and health - Latitude The editors of PLOS Climate’s Health section are calling for submissions on the theme of heat and health.  As the impacts of…

Our Health section editors are calling for submissions on the theme of Heat and Health. Learn more in this blog post 👇

latitude.plos.org/2025/03/plos...

Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change

"Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising temperatures made worse by climate change." www.scientificameric... #extremeheat #heatresilience #heathealth