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Alison Strath

@alisonstrath.bsky.social

Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland @scotgovhealth Emeritus Professor @RGUpharmacy supporter of @dundeeunitedfc

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Check out the award winning abstracts presented at the 14th International @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social conference in Glasgow, UK, on 11th and 12th October 2024 published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

05.12.2024 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What you permit, you promote

25.11.2024 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Similar thing happened to me. An edit function would be most helpful!

25.11.2024 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... πŸ§ͺ

22.11.2024 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
Advanced Pharmacist Mental Health Curriculum This follow-on webinar will cover specifics and practicalities for candidates who are undertaking the mental health or critical care curricula

For pharmacists interested in credentialing as an advanced mental health pharmacist check out the joint RPS @cmhpcommunity.bsky.social webinar #PharmSky

www.rpharms.com/resources/we...

22.11.2024 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assisted dying bill debate: advice to pharmacy professionals The UK chief pharmaceutical officers have given advice to help pharmacists and pharmacy technicians wanting to take part in the assisted dying debate.

My UK chief pharmaceutical officers colleagues & I have provided advice to help pharmacy professionals wanting to take part in the debate on assisted dying. This follows similar advice recently issued to doctors and nurses: www.gov.uk/government/p...

22.11.2024 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate.

Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine.

From our work on Polio:
ourworldindata.org/polio

21.11.2024 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2445    πŸ” 410    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 27
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Expanding applications of therapies based on GLP1 - Nature Reviews Endocrinology The evidence base in support of the use of medicines based on glucagon-like peptide 1 beyond glucose control and weight loss was substantially bolstered in 2024, as clinical trial data report benefits...

The expansion of GLP-1 drug efficacy evidence in 2024, a concise review by Daniel Drucker, a pioneer of the field nature.com/articles/s41...

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Modelling plausible scenarios for the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant from early-stage surveillance. Epidemics 2024.

Modelling plausible scenarios for the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant from early-stage surveillance. Epidemics 2024.

Finally! πŸŽ‰
Our last paper on the early dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron outbreak in Scotland is now published in Epidemics!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

#SARSCoV2 #Omicron #PublicHealth #IDSky #EpiSky

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For me the best key insight of this paper was that we could take an existing large and complex model and fit it, using relatively simple means, to a new and emerging situation. It worked well and gave rapid insight into the emerging variant outbreak.

#IDModelling

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Great advice on public speaking

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This week we published a report about what the public in Scotland want from #NHS reform and how they want to be involved in decisions about their healthcare:
www.hisengage.scot/informing-po...

#HealthcareImprovementScotland

16.11.2024 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I decided to use my first post to promote the beautiful #Kimono exhibition at the #Dundee V&A

17.11.2024 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many congratulations!

17.11.2024 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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