Linda Slack-Smith

So important to have people leading journals who want to make a difference, and want to help others to do do.

Women in Queensland prison suffer inhumane conditions

Women in Queensland prison suffer inhumane conditions

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity The McGill School of Population and Global Health is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The nomination deadline is Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Paul Farmer, ...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca

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This team are absolutely amazing!!!

Happy Valentine's Day to all souls 🫶🏼

Useful illustration for teaching students about difference between equality, equity & reality

How language shapes the fight against the Tobacco Industry : Intouch Public Health The Tobacco Industry has a long and ongoing history of using language to deflect blame and resist accountability.

Excellent article - raises important issues

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The call for “Real Zero” is very important as it focuses on achieving real emission reductions as opposed to using offsets. In Australia, allowing industry to use of offsets looks likely to undermine any real action that might otherwise come out of the safeguard mechanism.

Cripes. This deserves wide circulation. Large US case-control study of recently diagnosed lung cancer finds smokers who also vape have 4x rate of lung cancer. On-going dual use (smoking + vaping) is VERY common .. often >50% of those who vape.

WA’s state-owned gambling agency targets customers with promotions to maintain profits Annual report attributed strong retail performance, in part, to its $13.8m spend on advertising

WA’s state-owned gambling agency targets customers with promotions to maintain profits - @henrybelot.bsky.social

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What we just found out about the possible tie between microplastics and cancer New research published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology offers evidence that microplastics are harming human health.

@washingtonpost.com, @shannonosaka.bsky.social discusses our world first rapid systematic review on the health harms of #microplastics published today. @shannonosaka.bsky.social bit.ly/41HAypI

Beware the air you breathe - more evidence links microplastics to health problems By Carey Gillam People diagnosed with infertility and certain cancers may have to blame the very air they breathe, according to a new report that adds to evidence that tiny plastic particles in air p...

Our world first systematic review of the health harms of #microplastics was published today. We concluded that microplastics are “suspected” to harm human #reproductive, #digestive, and #respiratory health, with a suggested link to colon and lung #cancer.

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Our systematic review of parents' experiences of child protection during & after pregnancy is freely available doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... Big thanks to contributors, original researchers, & participating parents! @emilyked.bsky.social @lisamorriss.bsky.social @karenb-2.bsky.social #academicsky

Whether there is sadness or joy dwelling within, moments of peaceful calm or turbulent storms raging, the deepest stories and secrets of a heart remain known only to its bearer.
Sharing joy with you today!

Yes there has been a lot of joy and positivity as this site has grown but there are things we don’t want and no bios and/or no posts can be a red flag.

Fantastic to see such clear information

Per capita dental expenditures

🚨 $710 Billion: Economic Burden of Oral Diseases 🚨

Oral diseases cost the world a shocking $710 billion annually. As highlighted by WHO and the World Economic Forum, this figure underscores the urgent need for decisive policy action.

See our article 👉 shorturl.at/t2KPF

Hi! If you are new here, here is a public health and health promotion starter pack filled with fabulous people and organisations!

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Thinking about buying our new edition of Epidemiology An Introduction?

Oxford University Press is offering a 30% discount with the code AUFLY30 for orders from their website: global.oup.com/academic

Volume 39 Issue 6 | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

We hope you engage with the 19 papers that have been released today - and the papers that will be released over the next few weeks. We are incredibly grateful to our editorial team members, associate editors and peer reviewers! academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...

Acting on the Commercial Determinants of Health In 1986, when Health Promotion International was launched, the founding Chair of the Editorial Board, Professor Ilona Kickbusch, stressed that promoting he

So many fascinating papers in the newly launched special issue on the commercial determinants of health #CDoH @healthpromint.bsky.social - will share some over the next while. Worth checking out the editorial first, especially the 3 challenges identified

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Such important work and opportunity

Such important work

Financialisation: a 21st century commercial determinant of health equity In 21st century capitalism, financial markets reign supreme. The elevation of investing, trading, and speculating as a way of making profit has shifte…

New viewpoint from Sharon Friel & team that highlights the substantial influence of the financial system on health and climate change outcomes
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Fantastic start to #cetph2024 commercial determinants - commerce, economy trade and health conference melbournetoo many amazing speakers to choose

Great please count me in

We adapt social media tracking as platforms come and go or become places for research comms. We also track a bunch of other pretty interesting metrics like policy, news, Wikipedia and patents. So hopefully it wouldn’t be *completely* meaningless!

So presumably Altmetrics are going to become meaningless if all the academics are on here but Altmetric is still tracking Tweets? #academicsky

Thank you!!

Thanks!!