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PhD-ing in Global Health @ UCL | Research Consultant | Pharmacist | Health policy & systems; Intersectionality; Migration; NCDs | ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พin๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช&๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง | he/him

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Thanks Nicola! And for those who may want something shorter, here is a hard hitting editorial on the topic of #genderjustice and #globalhealth

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

@womenlifthealth.bsky.social @womeningh.bsky.social @katewomersley.com @kstoreng.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social

13.04.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A graphic displaying three key recommendations from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The title reads "Our key recommendationsโ€. The three recommendations are numbered with coloured diamond shapes: 
1.	Finance gender justice in global health through a ring-fenced gender justice allocation from existing tax on health-harming products.
2.	Create a platform collecting monitoring data about gender justice in global health.
3.	Determine the need for an international legal definition of gender to create a guardrail protecting the term.
The Commissionโ€™s logo appears in the top right corner, with geometric triangle shapes decorating the bottom right.

A graphic displaying three key recommendations from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The title reads "Our key recommendationsโ€. The three recommendations are numbered with coloured diamond shapes: 1. Finance gender justice in global health through a ring-fenced gender justice allocation from existing tax on health-harming products. 2. Create a platform collecting monitoring data about gender justice in global health. 3. Determine the need for an international legal definition of gender to create a guardrail protecting the term. The Commissionโ€™s logo appears in the top right corner, with geometric triangle shapes decorating the bottom right.

Global health is in crisis - and #genderjustice must be at the centre of reform.

Through the recent Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, a multi-disciplinary group of experts have produced actionable recommendations to embed gender justice into the #GlobalHealth sector: bit.ly/42l5rim

10.04.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Graphic for The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The text reads: 'The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health โ€“ Read the Executive Summaryโ€™ with the Lancet logo below. The design includes a shape made of coloured triangles on a dark blue background in the bottom right corner.

Graphic for The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The text reads: 'The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health โ€“ Read the Executive Summaryโ€™ with the Lancet logo below. The design includes a shape made of coloured triangles on a dark blue background in the bottom right corner.

The Lancet Commission on Gender and #GlobalHealth is a must-read for anyone passionate about equality and #HealthEquity.

For the critical findings and recommendations for integrating gender justice into health systems worldwide, read the Executive Summary: bit.ly/42l5rim

#GenderJustice

09.04.2025 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Graphic announcing The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The text reads: 'The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health โ€“ New reportโ€™ with the Lancet logo below. The design includes a shape made of coloured triangles on a dark blue background in the bottom right corner.

Graphic announcing The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The text reads: 'The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health โ€“ New reportโ€™ with the Lancet logo below. The design includes a shape made of coloured triangles on a dark blue background in the bottom right corner.

Infographic from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, titled: โ€œAdvancing gender justice in global health will have benefits for allโ€. It illustrates the benefits of adopting a gender justice approach in health. Key benefits include reducing health inequities, addressing gender bias, ensuring diverse leadership, and tracking accountability. The visual also highlights barriers to progress such as misunderstanding gender, insufficient investment, systemic influences, and harmful gender norms. At the bottom, a person climbs a ladder toward the centre of a circular structure, symbolising efforts to overcome power and privilege that obstruct progress.

Infographic from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, titled: โ€œAdvancing gender justice in global health will have benefits for allโ€. It illustrates the benefits of adopting a gender justice approach in health. Key benefits include reducing health inequities, addressing gender bias, ensuring diverse leadership, and tracking accountability. The visual also highlights barriers to progress such as misunderstanding gender, insufficient investment, systemic influences, and harmful gender norms. At the bottom, a person climbs a ladder toward the centre of a circular structure, symbolising efforts to overcome power and privilege that obstruct progress.

Infographic from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health detailing five action areas to advance gender justice:
1.	Develop a shared understanding and framing of gender justice.
2.	Improve the evidence base with better data.
3.	Promote gender-responsive health policies.
4.	Ensure accountable governance systems.
5.	Invest in gender justice for global health.
On the right, small figures are shown collaboratively building and painting a large statue of Lady Justice, representing collective efforts to achieve fairness and equity.

Infographic from The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health detailing five action areas to advance gender justice: 1. Develop a shared understanding and framing of gender justice. 2. Improve the evidence base with better data. 3. Promote gender-responsive health policies. 4. Ensure accountable governance systems. 5. Invest in gender justice for global health. On the right, small figures are shown collaboratively building and painting a large statue of Lady Justice, representing collective efforts to achieve fairness and equity.

Launched today on #WorldHealthDay: The Lancet Commission on #Gender and #GlobalHealth.

A bold call to put #genderjustice at the centre of #healthequityโ€” with clear, actionable recommendations for change: bit.ly/42l5rim

Proud of our role in helping to shape this work.

#GenderAndGlobalHealth

07.04.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Lancet Commission Report on Gender and GlobalHealth sets out bold recommendations to put #GenderJustice at the heart of all we do to achieve #HealthForAll.

Honoured to be a co-author, and thank you @femupheave.bsky.social @gh5050.bsky.social for your unparalleled leadership! ๐Ÿ‘

07.04.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@femupheave.bsky.social & @aaroncckoay.bsky.social were part of The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health who released a new report on #WorldHealthDay highlighting how gender justice in global health improves health outcomes & reduces inequalities for all people.
Full report: buff.ly/iIsuIfA

07.04.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health Achieving gender justice in global healthโ€”which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...

๐ŸŒโœจ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspirationโ€”itโ€™s a necessity for ๐Ÿ“ˆ health outcomes & addressing inequities.

Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission โžก๏ธ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0

07.04.2025 06:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Pleased that our paper on shaping the narrative on #obesity was among the top ten most cited papers in #ObesityReviews

Particularly pleased to bring a #humanrights dimension that is too often missing

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@worldobesity.bsky.social @oha-updates.bsky.social

19.03.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New article in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @drorlysiow.bsky.social. We analyze how intersectionality has been used in gender and politics research, and explore how can it be used in ways more closely aligned with Black feminist theory.
#gendersky #polisky

29.01.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œPublic health policy should be based on independent science, not shaped by entities with a financial stake in diet-related diseasesโ€ said Prof @carlos-monteiro.bsky.social Monteiro is Brazilian nutritional scientist & leader of the research group that originally developed the Nova classification.

14.03.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Join online or in person in Geneva๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

10.03.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2025 SPHeRE Network 11th Annual Conference Poster Gallery | The SPHeRE Programme | Structured Population and Health-services Research Education

Check out the amazing SPHeRE Network 11th Annual Conference Poster Gallery right now. We are excited to meet everyone who is attending the conference on Tuesday 4th March. #SPHERE2025
www.sphereprogramme.ie/2025-annual-...

28.02.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology conference in Galway this summer!

It will be of interest to all concerned with research & action at the intersection of health & social justice. Rarely has this been more important!

Submit your abstract here: ischp2025.ie

Fรกilte!

26.02.2025 09:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I had the privilege of visiting SEACO HDSS in Segamat, Malaysia, housed within Monash University Malaysia.

As part of my PhD at UCL, I am working with SEACO & Monash. I will soon be back in Malaysia โ€“ this time for a few months โ€“ to work on the health policy aspect of my research.

More soon!

25.02.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A critical review of the reporting of reflexive thematic analysis in Health Promotion International Abstract. Using the concept of methodological congruenceโ€”where the different elements of a study โ€˜fitโ€™ togetherโ€”we explore both problematic and good practi

In 2024 @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social published a critical review of the reporting of RTA in @healthpromint.bsky.social

The tips and pointers are so incredibly helpful, and I have used this paper so often thinking through my own research.

academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

23.02.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Obstructs Health Policy Implementation? A Multi-Method Qualitative Case Study of the Delayed Deployment of Community Pharmacies in Irelandโ€™s National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme - Aaron Koay, ... During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were months of delay in deploying community pharmacies for the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme in Ireland. We aimed ...

Want to know more?

๐Ÿ”— Read our full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

13.02.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒ Media release ๐ŸŒ

"The missed opportunity to engage community pharmacies earlier in providing COVID-19 vaccination to save lives should be part of the evaluation [of Ireland's COVID-19 response.]"

๐Ÿ”— Read @tcddublin.bsky.social media release on our new paper: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

13.02.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ’กCongratulations to our recent graduate of the MSc in Comparative Social Change (Class of 2022),
@aaroncckoay.bsky.social has published a paper with Prof Camilla Devitt in our department. ๐Ÿ‘

Read more ๐Ÿ‘‰ tinyurl.com/e5h2hkyj

06.02.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! Health policy analysts tend to prefer deductive coding against a priori frameworks to generate topic summaries. We thought this approach wasnโ€™t the best for our data (too messy and conflicting), so we opted for RTA. Hope this article demonstrates the value of RTA for policy analysis. ๐Ÿ™

05.02.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow.

When we look back at Trumpโ€™s impact on (global/public) health weโ€™d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.

05.02.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Proud to have been a stakeholder for this important work.

04.02.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In this work, we also explored the use of Reflexive Thematic Analysis in health policy analysis to better situate power & positionalities, develop analytical depth and generate coherent yet multi-dimensional themes.

Hope this will be of interest! ๐Ÿ˜Š @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social

04.02.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Obstructs Health Policy Implementation? A Multi-Method Qualitative Case Study of the Delayed Deployment of Community Pharmacies in Irelandโ€™s National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme - Aaron Koay, ... During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were months of delay in deploying community pharmacies for the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme in Ireland. We aimed ...

๐Ÿ’ฌ Want to know more?

๐Ÿ”— Article available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

โœ‰๏ธ Feel free to reach out to me!

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿšจ The findings can also inform our understanding of the wider policy challenges the profession faces in achieving its full potential. This research is timely, given the Ireland COVID-19 Public Inquiry and recent governmental commitments to expanding the role of pharmacists.

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’Š Our recommendations:
๐Ÿ“œReview legislative and regulatory frameworks governing pharmacy practice

๐Ÿ”€ Better integration between CPs and broader health system, particularly IT

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Pharmacy bodies develop a cohesive vision and advocate for senior governmental representation

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿงฉ Overall, the delay can be explained by a complex interplay between technical, socio-political, institutional, and regulatory factors, underpinned by a chronic lack of strategic direction for pharmacy in the Irish health system.

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ›๏ธ 3rd theme: Pharmacy without power to influence policy

This theme highlights the diminished influence of CPs in the Irish health system, due to a lack of strategic and cohesive leadership and the dominance of the medical profession.

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ—๏ธ 2nd theme: Unjustifiable delay due to perceived limitations

This theme offers an opposing view to the previous one, where the delay was seen as unjustifiable and attributed to perceived inadequacy in the capability of CPs to deliver COVID-19 vax.

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โš–๏ธ 1st theme: Inevitable delay due to operational complexity

This theme presents the view that the delay was inevitable, given the substantial efforts required to overcome operational and regulatory obstacles related to logistics and safety.

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04.02.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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