European Society of Health and Medical Sociology

⏰ Final reminder — ESHMS 2026 abstracts
Deadline: Sun 15 February

Join the Hamburg conference on Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty.

🔗 Details & submission: www.uke.de/english/depa...

#ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology

Research Visit Grant Winners - ESHMS 2026 Anneleen De Cuyper PhD researcher (Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) fellowship), Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Host institution for the research visit: University of...

🎉 Congrats to Anneleen De Cuyper (Univ. of Antwerp) on receiving a 2026 ESHMS Research Visit Grant!

Her visit to Univ. of Gothenburg will support research on sexual harassment in higher education using advanced modelling.

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#ESHMS #HealthSociology

📣 Reminder – Call for Abstracts

Submit your abstract to the ESHMS 2026 (Hamburg, 19–21 Aug).

Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty
🗓️ Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
🧑‍🎓 Early Career Workshop: 18 August 2026

🔗 Info & submission: www.uke.de/english/depa...

#ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology

Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good

go.nature.com/4iZwCXT

📣 Call for Abstracts – ESHMS 2026

Submit your work to the ESHMS Conference in Hamburg (19–21 Aug 2026), themed Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

🔗 Info + submission: www.uke.de/english/depa...

#ESHMS2026 #HealthSociology #MentalHealth

📣 Deadline extended!

Applications for the ESHMS Research Visit Grants 2026 now due 15 Dec 2025.

Up to €1,000 for research visits abroad in health & medical sociology.

📩 alice.scavarda@unito.it

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#ESHMS #Research

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📢 Call for Papers: "Studying Pregnancy Losses"

We're excited to announce a session at the @eshms.bsky.social Biennial Conference 2026 in Hamburg

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🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026

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In case you're wondering where to present your fabulous #miscarriage research, please submit to a session organised by the members of the @soc-misc.bsky.social team at the @eshms.bsky.social conference in Hamburg in August! Deadline 15 Feb 2026

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📣 Reminder: ESHMS Research Visit Grants 2026

Up to €1,000 for research visits abroad in health & medical sociology.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

Open to ESHMS members; early-career researchers prioritised.

📩 alice.scavarda@unito.it

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#ESHMS #HealthSociology

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🎓 Call for Applications!

ESHMS offers Research Visit Grants 2026 – up to €1,000 for travel & accommodation to support international collaboration in health & medical sociology.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
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🎓 Call for Applications!

ESHMS offers Research Visit Grants 2026 – up to €1,000 for travel & accommodation to support international collaboration in health & medical sociology.

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
📩 alice.scavarda@unito.it
🔗 eshms.eu/researchvisi...

#ESHMS #HealthSociology #Research

📢 Reminder!

The deadline for session proposals for the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology 2026 Conference (Hamburg, 19–21 Aug) is 31 Oct 2025 ⏰

Theme: Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty

📩 info-eshms2026@uke.de

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#HealthSociology #MentalHealth

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

academic.oup.com/aje/article/...

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....