European Society of Health and Medical Sociology

A study published in JAMA found acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.

JAMA Deputy Editor Linda Brubaker, MD, MS, spoke with senior author Brian Lee, PhD, about the study’s findings. ja.ma/4nugLSF

Visualising relationships between the arts and health The American photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) described a good photograph as one “that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it”. This photo...

🖼️ New in The Lancet, 32 images provide a photographic accompaniment to the work of the Lancet Series on the health benefits of the arts, in collaboration with @who.int
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Explore the images: tinyurl.com/bdcptc2x

📢 Call for Session Proposals – ESHMS 2026

We are delighted to announce the launch of the call for sessions for the 21st Biennial ESHMS Conference in Hamburg, 19–21 August 2026.

Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2025 ⏰

This European study suggest that gendered life courses contribute to different patterns of cognitive and relational reserve accumulation for men and women, and that welfare states buffer the negative consequences of adverse life courses on cognitive health

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Session proposals on the main theme and on other topics in health and medical sociology are welcome.

Details here: www.uke.de/english/depa...

Submit to: info.eshms2026@uke.de

The conference is organised by the Institute of Medical Sociology of Hamburg: www.uke.de/english/depa...

📢 Call for Session Proposals – ESHMS 2026

We are delighted to announce the launch of the call for sessions for the 21st Biennial ESHMS Conference in Hamburg, 19–21 August 2026.

Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty

Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2025 ⏰

Heatmaps show 'Adverse Childhood Experiences' vs. health 'Outcomes' for men and women. Color intensity reflects the risk difference, with darker shades indicating higher risk. Experiences listed include abuse, neglect, family issues, and financial difficulties.

This cohort study found associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and various health outcomes at age 50, particularly poor mental health and severe pain. ja.ma/4lOaSOr

JAMA Network Open article: "Food Insecurity Prevalence Among US Medical Students." By Bassel M. Shanab, Pavan Khosla, Nour M. Hammad, and others. Published online August 29, 2025.

This survey study found that 21.2% of US medical students experience food insecurity, nearly double the national household average. ja.ma/47kjCrX

New @bmj.com research: Patient healthcare spending after the No Surprises Act: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study.

Linked opinion: The United States faces a healthcare affordability crisis.

Read more: www.bmj.com/content/390/...

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026!

#EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

Interesting piece of Cristian Montenegro and @judegreen.bsky.social published in Social Theory and Health: Engagement and qualitative sociology are distinct
Read rdcu.be/ev44L

Postdoctoral Fellow Awards – Outstanding Promise in Social Epidemiology

Yang Han, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Timothy Sumerlin, New York University Shanghai (China)

Yinhua Tao, University of Cambridge (UK)

What would Len say?

Considered to be the father of social epidemiology, Len Syme died earlier this year at the age of 92.

In this month's SSM-Population Health, Berkman & Krieger pen a tribute asking: “What would Len say?”―as public health faces multiple threats in the U.S.

#SocialEpi #EpiSky

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Last week I had a fantastic opportunity to learn about reflexivity and participatory approaches in qualitative health research at the @eshms.bsky.social Qualitative Workshop for Early Career Scholars at the University of Turin, Italy!

Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomized controlled trials: A meta-research study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Social inequalities in the effects of school-based well-being interventions: a systematic review academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📢 PhD students & early career researchers—apply for the ESHMS Early Career Workshop on Qualitative Methods in Health Research!

📍 Torino | 📅 3–4 June 2025
📩 Apply by 20 April to: alice.scavarda@unito.it

🔗 Info: eshms.eu/workshops

#HealthSociology #QualitativeResearch

Advert for next Causal Inference Interest Group seminar. "Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to guide the treatment of multivariable missing data in epidemiological studies" with Margarita Moreno Betancur on 7th April 2025 at 9am BST.

"Using missingness directed acyclic graphs (m-DAGs) to guide the treatment of multivariable missing data in epidemiological studies"

Don't miss the next #CIIG seminar with @margaritamb.bsky.social on 7th April 2025 at *9am* BST!

Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#EpiSky #CausalSky

University Lecturer in Social Data Science University Lecturer in Social Data Science

Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Social Inequalities in Health Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Social Inequalities in Health

Looking for 2 post docs at Helsinki Uni jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

We've known social disadvantage was linked to adverse health outcomes. A @NatureMedicine study used high- throughput proteomics to show there is accelerated aging, increased risk of 66 age-related diseases, and unfavorable changes in the immune system, ⬆️ inflammation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Call for Applications!

PhD students & early career researchers—apply for the ESHMS Early Career Workshop on Qualitative Methods in Health Research!

📅 3-4 June 2025 | 📍 Torino, Italy
📩 Apply by March 30

🔗 More info: Alice Scavarda: alice.scavarda@unito.it

#HealthSociology #QualitativeResearch

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🎉 Congrats to Riccardo Pronzato, postdoc at Bologna, on receiving the 2025 ESHMS Research Visit Grant! His research explores the co-design of an AI-powered chatbot for dementia caregivers, analysing power dynamics & implementation in healthcare.

🔗 eshms.eu/research-vis...
#AI #eHealth #DementiaCare

SSPH+ | Trends in Indicators of Violence Among Adolescents in Europe and North America 1994–2022 ObjectivesTo describe age and gender specific time trends in adolescent violence across 19 countries over 28 years.MethodsThe paper presents analysis of eigh...

Trends in Indicators of Violence Among Adolescents in Europe and North America 1994–2022. This paper showed:

- A decline in traditional forms of adolescent violence 😀

- However, an increase in cyberbullying 🙁

www.ssph-journal.org/journals/int...

We're very much looking forward to welcoming Léa to Edinburgh!

@d-liveability.bsky.social

Research Visit Grant Winners - ESHMS 2025 Léa loubet Phd student in public health and sociology, University Paris Cité, France Visit: School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom June 2025 The 2025 ESHMS Re...

This visit to University of Edinburgh will enable engagement with sociological innovations, including the Discovering Liveability project, fostering comparative policy analysis & academic collaboration.

🔗 Learn more: eshms.eu/research-vis...

🎉 Congrats to Léa Loubet, PhD student at University Paris Cité, on receiving the 2025 ESHMS Research Visit Grant!

Her research examines the integration of gender in suicide prevention for adolescents & young adults and she will visit @amychandler.bsky.social from the University of Edinburgh.

This is figure 1, which shows a map of the global burden of female breast cancer in 2022.

At present, 1 in 20 women globally are diagnosed with breast cancer, and a projected 1 in 70 may are likely to die from the disease in their lifetime, suggests research published in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/4hPNwXD #Medsky 🧪