This launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/
@cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.
04.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Apologies all: the OJS system is down today for an upgrade: no access to published content in JCPH or to the submission site.
28.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems -
journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc.... It is the only journal dedicated to 'critical public heath', community-owned (not corporate). Check it out!
24.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Journal of Critical Public Health
New @cphjournal.bsky.social special issue on decentring health systems out: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph featuring articles exploring how competing narratives, agency & resistance shape health policy & practice. Includes papers examining economic restructuring... 1/4
23.01.2026 08:45 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 5
I have a paper on the post-politics of multistakeholder partnerships in a new special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social on 'narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health'
great to be involved in an SI with so many brilliant colleagues and all papers are open access
23.01.2026 15:05 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Decentring health systems: Narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Read the introductory editorial by @profkatsmith.bsky.social & colleagues to the SI on Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems here:
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23.01.2026 17:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth
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23.01.2026 17:51 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
#sexualhealth #publichealth
16.01.2026 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs
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16.01.2026 12:12 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social: Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective
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Guest edited by @laurasochas.bsky.social, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager
05.12.2025 20:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I have a new article out in special issue on reproductive vulnerabilities!
My piece examines how a community of (anonymized) African women makes sense of the contraceptive coercion they experience, using the lenses of gendered vulnerability and imperial feminism
The whole issue looks incredible!
08.12.2025 21:52 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
‘Gay issues have come and it is worrying us’: Interrogating vulnerability, masculinities, and reproduction through queerphobic narratives among men in Accra, Ghana
| Journal of Critical Publ...
Part of the new Special Issue on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: Joe Strong, Nii Kwartelai Quartey, Ojeeko Tackie & Nii Kwartei Richard Owoo analyse men’s expressions of queerphobia through the lens of vulnerability
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04.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
📖Recommended reading
Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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28.11.2025 09:44 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025)
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager
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27.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
The post-politics of partnership: Understanding corporate power in multistakeholder governance
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New 'online first' paper from Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social - on 'multi-stakeholderism' in food policy, and how this renders power of corporations less visible
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19.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Population chatter for clearer and broader thinking about fertility
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New 'online first' publication from Jenny Trinitapoli & Gertrude Finyiza on the value of listening in to 'population chatter': part of our forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on #reproductive vulnerabilities
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31.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Conceiving strife: Relational vulnerabilities in couples with male infertility in Pakistan
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities!
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31.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Challenges of researching racism in healthcare
| Journal of Critical Public Health
New online first Research & Practice Note from Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Beth Maina Ahlberg & Sarah Hamed:
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29.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Becoming embedded: A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Just published online first: paper from Hannah Newman, Louca-Mai Brady, Elspeth Mathie, Kathryn Almack & Wendy Wills on co-designing services with diverse communities
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27.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good luck to the team setting up a new population health journal! Excellent news that the opportunities to publish public health research in scholarly community-managed journals is set to expand.
24.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Really interesting look at placed based approaches to reducing #healthinequalities
Supporting the reduction of power imbalances at a community level , that can increase health inequalities
and the need to .....
"catalyse emancipation of currently disempowered and alienated communities"
16.09.2025 20:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)
Critical Metabolism: Towards a Metabolic Justice?
Stephen Hinchliffe et al
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15.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Are place-based approaches to reducing health inequalities a highway to success or a policy dead-end?
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)
Are Place-Based Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities a Highway to Success or a Policy Dead-End?
Gerry McCartney & Jennie Popay
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15.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Unionization rates and health in Canadian provinces, 2000 - 2020
| Journal of Critical Public Health
Journal of Critical Public Health. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2025)
"Unionization Rates and Health in Canadian Provinces, 2000–2020"
Anupam Das, Ian Hudson &Mark Hudson
doi.org/10.55016/ojs...
15.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
The School of Technology for Public Health at Arizona State University is modernizing public health by producing innovators who can create or apply accessible, equitable technologies with potential to improve health at scale. 🔗 publichealthtech.asu.edu
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Researchers at LSHTM, University of Edinburgh and others. We research the tobacco, alcohol, food, fossil fuel and others. We also research cross-industry playbooks and industry misinformation.
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