Prof. J. Jaime Miranda

At #AAICsatellite, I shared 3 reasons why #HealthSystems fall short of high-quality care:

1️⃣ Service models haven’t evolved with population needs
2️⃣ Reforms stack without rethinking
3️⃣ Users are left out of design

It’s time to build care systems for people, not just around them.

Honoured to share perspectives on #HealthSystems and dementia as a litmus test for care models in Latin America at the #AAICsatellite Symposium in Lima 🇵🇪. Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to such vital discussions.

@alzassociation.bsky.social

Screenshot of the paper

Pleased to contribute to this comment @nataging.nature.com on the need to value #caregiving by #olderadults as part of a #wellbeingeconomy
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@samankhalatbari.bsky.social, Mouna Sawan, Jo-An Occhipinti, @jjaimemiranda.bsky.social @samtani-suraj.bsky.social @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social

NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

My solidarity to my peers, colleagues and friends in the US who are going through such uncertain times. Patience. Patience.

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New @alliancehpsr.bsky.social call for proposals on improving health and climate policy making through applied systems thinking in #Iran, #Mozambique, #Nepal and #Uganda. Check it out here: ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

How biological enzymes are fighting the plastic crisis The breakdown on the breaking down...

Thanks to the Naked Scientists pod for featuring another one of our tech stories!

This week, we meet the enzymes that could help us turn the tide on plastic waste - and the scientists preparing them for their rollout into recycling plants.

Listen 🎧

www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Kudos!

Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says “Mundus sine caesaribus.” Or, “a world without Caesars.”
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Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity With extended life expectancy Britain has wound up an increasingly sick nation – and experts say that this is as bad for GDP as it is for our health

“It’s exactly like compound interest. If you start preventive health interventions early, the economic gains are about four times larger than if you start later.”

via @theguardian.com
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☝🏽 "History urges us to remember that at the center of epidemiology are people who are suffering."

How Transatlantic Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.

"At the heart of #epidemiology is a history of violence and conquest. Imperialism and the transatlantic slave trade depended on the violent use of power to assert authority over people in a particular setting in order to understand how diseases spread."

Via @time.com
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👉🏽 "Other developing countries would do well to avoid pursuing growth at all costs, especially now that climate change is intensifying. Sustainable growth also must be inclusive. If growth enriches only a small handful of elites, it may eventually trigger a political crisis."

The Moral of the China Story | by Yuen Yuen Ang - Project Syndicate Yuen Yuen Ang explains why the world’s second-largest economy has gone from being a model to a warning in just six years.

"In fact, I am highlighting the hypocrisy of rich countries in erasing their corrupt past (and sometimes legalizing corruption today). Looking at contemporary China forces us to revisit the troubled history of richer countries."
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social
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An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

Colombia le abre paso a la creación de su Sistema Nacional de Cuidado El Gobierno busca saldar una deuda histórica redistribuyendo la carga del cuidado, que hoy recae principalmente sobre las mujeres

"La propuesta de decreto marca el punto de partida para un cambio de fondo: la redistribución de una carga que hasta ahora se ha concentrado en la esfera doméstica, con poco apoyo estatal... La meta es que el cuidado deje de ser un asunto exclusivo de los hogares."
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ultra-processed food regulation

ultra-processed food regulation

ultra-processed food regulation

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods?

We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The people fighting to get through to anti-science Americans: ‘It’s just talking to each other’ As science misinformation takes hold in the White House, those seeking to set the record straight need to meet people where they are

“This disconnect was on full display last month, when 77 Nobel laureates [urged] the Senate to reject RFK Jr’s nomination… Their indignation had little to no effect, a very illustrative example of science people being unable to reach the non-science people.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives

Remember what is behind the algorithm.

"Following a week in which Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was getting rid of factchecking, as of Friday the company is also terminating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, effective immediately."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Curious about Peru’s health system and the state of cardiovascular health? 🏥📊 Check out my updated list!

Big thanks to @amnesty.org for their 2024 report, ‘Peru: The Right to Health, a Privilege for the Few.’ 👏📖

👉🏽https://amnistia.org.pe/noticia/sistema-salud-peru-desigualdad-acceso-2024/

As heat-related health risks increase, researchers stress the importance of effective adaptation strategies Introduction by Croakey: Researchers are working to support Australian policymakers and communities in responding to extreme weather conditions, including through

As heat-related health risks increase, researchers stress the importance of effective adaptation strategies – a timely report from recent #HEAL2024 conference as so much of Australia swelters
www.croakey.org/as-heat-rela...
By @alisonsbarrett.bsky.social

International Visitor Program - Sydney Mathematical Research Institute IVP August 2023 applications are due 8 August 2023, for July 2024–June 2025 visits (general applicants) & March 2024–June 2025 for Australian citizens/PR & NZ citizens.

Applications for round 1 of our International Visitor Program are open! Are you a mathematician looking to visit Australia & spend time doing research? Apply by Feb 18: bit.ly/3XqOxxK. Please share with interested parties 🔁 #mathsky #statsky #IVP #SMRI

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

“Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Researchers’ agency and the boundaries of global mental health: perspectives from and about Latin America The decolonise global health movement has critically reassessed the field’s historical and political underpinnings, urging researchers to recognise biases and power imbalances through reflexivity and ...

Amazing read from #LatinAmerica colleagues on their research ventures and adventures.

“The initiatives discussed illustrate how researchers’ collaborative agency challenges the boundaries of GMH in ways that conflict with the normative expectations of the DGH movement.”

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‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections

I do not work on the molecular sciences but this caught my attention, ‘mirror life’.

“Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections”

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Understanding parental involvement with schools and parental engagement with learning across schools in areas of socioeconomic deprivation in Wales Parents’ involvement and engagement with their child’s school and learning are important in children’s educational outcomes and their overall life successes, and both parental involvement and engag...

NEW PAPER: Led by our former
PhD student Dr Amy Bond @deciphercentre.bsky.social with Dr Jemma Hawkins on parental involvement with schools and parental engagement with learning in areas of socioeconomic deprivation.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Zulma M. Cucunubá — shaping public health with mathematical modelling Dr Zulma M. Cucunubá is a pioneering Colombian researcher specialised in applied mathematical modelling for infectious diseases. Trained as a physician with a master's degree in public health and a doctorate in epidemiology of infectious diseases, Dr Cucunubá combines her mathematical expertise and community values to address critical health issues.

Thank you, @zulmacucunuba.bsky.social, for your inspiring work in Latin America. You are a star!

Fabuloso el trabajo que haces, inspirando a los demás. Muchas gracias.

"Zulma M. Cucunubá — shaping public health with mathematical modelling"
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Branches, twilight.

Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law The Australian Parliament has passed a social media ban for young children in a world-first law

Rushed? Maybe. Needed? I will lean toward yes. A space to watch from a #PublicHealth perspective.

The Australian Parliament has passed a social media ban for young children in a world-first law.
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Is that time if the year, feeling the cold in your nose when passing through this bookstore.

New here? Migrating from the other side? Concerned about manually finding people to follow?

Sky Follower Bridge works! It took me less than 5 minutes to sort it out.

Open thanks to
@kawamataryo.bsky.social for the Chrome AddOn
@lilianalaranjo.bsky.social for the heads up!

Angela Merkel expresses ‘huge concern’ at Elon Musk’s US government role Former German chancellor says politics should govern the social balance between powerful and ordinary citizens

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
The corporate coup d'etat in slow motion that Hedges wrote about is now a corporate coup d'etat in plain sight.