European Society of Health and Medical Sociology

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

🧪A starter pack of European scientific societies and associations🇪🇺🇬🇧

📣 Repost to connect researchers on #BlueSky🦋

#research #science #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SciSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicBluesky #SciComm #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI #PhD #PhDSky #MedSky #StandWithScience #eloquenti

🎉 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 🧪

An academic in the land of podcasts: notes on a journey into creating health sociological audio content - ESHMS A health sociology academic explores creating a podcast for disseminating the results of their work.

🎙️ New blog post! Explore an academic's journey into podcasting to disseminate health sociology research. Discover insights on creating engaging audio content to reach broader audiences.
🔗 Read here: eshms.eu/voices-hs-vo...
#HealthSociology #Podcasting #ScienceCommunication

Association of socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease risk with economic development across 57 low- and middle-income countries: Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative indiv... According to epidemiological transition theory, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk shifts down the socioeconomic distribution with economic development…

📢 New research! ❤️📊 A study across 57 low- & middle-income countries suggests that socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease risk grow with economic development. As countries develop, CVD increasingly affects the most disadvantaged.
🔗 Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains - Nature Medicine Pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry reveals the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in human kidney, liver and brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, with higher proportions found in the brain.

Tiny plastic particles may accumulate at higher levels in the human brain than in the kidney and liver, with greater concentrations detected in postmortem samples from 2024 than in those from 2016, suggests a paper in @natmedicine.bsky.social: https://go.sn.pub/d9klpm
#medsky 🩺⚕️

A study reveals how cognitive impairment worsens socioeconomic disparities in health-related quality of life among older adults in Australia. Findings highlight the urgent need for policies tackling both cognitive decline & inequality
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
#HealthInequality #CognitiveHealth

📊 A systematic review highlights major validity & reliability issues in the use of Google Trends data for social science research. Many studies overlook these limitations, risking flawed conclusions. The authors propose improvements
🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
#SocialScience #GoogleTrends

Plasma proteomic evidence for increased β-amyloid pathology after SARS-CoV-2 infection - Nature Medicine Blood biomarkers in a middle-aged population suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with greater brain β-amyloid plaque accumulation.

Blood biomarkers in a middle-aged population suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with greater brain β-amyloid plaque accumulation. The findings published in Nature Medicine suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may increase the risk of future Alzheimer’s disease. #Medsky 🧪

📣SLLS 2025 CONFERENCE - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies
University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀

Submission Deadline: 14/03/25

www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...

📢 New research! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A systematic review reveals how socioeconomic hardship & psychosocial struggles shape the lives of parents with children in out-of-home care. Findings highlight deep systemic inequalities that reinforce cycles of disadvantage.
🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
#ChildWelfare

📢 2025 ESHMS Research Visit Grant Update 🌍

We’re pleased to share that 7 applications are under review! 🎉 A big thank you to applicants for their interest in fostering international collaboration in health and medical sociology.

🏆 The winners will be announced in mid-February 2025—stay tuned