🚨 New publication alert 🚨 This realist #evaluation in @GlobalHealthBMJ takes a look at how and why the Safe Motherhood Action Groups (#SMAGs) use #communication to improve maternal and newborn health care-seeking🤰in #Zambia 🌍 Have a read at 📖doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-0…

RT @feinmhuinin: 1/9 While everyone is arguing about Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and celebrities, here is what has happened in Palestine in the…

Israeli airstrikes continue to hit Gaza every day, killing and injuring people across the Strip. In the last 24 hours, our teams have treated 11 people, including 5 children, wounded by airstrikes.  In the last week, we have treated 22 people with shrapnel wounds or injuries from explosions. Once again, Israeli forces are showing that nowhere is safe in Gaza.  Today our teams at Al-Zawayda field hospital treated 8 people wounded in an Israeli airstrike; 3 were children. Yesterday, an Israeli strike hit a displacement camp in Khan Younis. Our teams at Al-Attar healthcare clinic treated 3 people, including 2 children. These attacks are part of a continuing pattern across Gaza. On 11 September, our teams at Al-Attar had treated 11 others injured in Israeli airstrikes. On 13 September, an Israeli airstrike hit a car next to an MSF bus transporting humanitarian workers, injuring one of our staff.

What effect could the heatwave have on your health? 🔥 🌡️ 🏥 With the wildfires and the fourth heatwave of the year currently raging through Europe, @DaalenKim gives her analysis of the impacts to both our physical and mental health. Dr Kim van Daalen is Environmental Epidemiologist at the Cambridge Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit and a Research Associate at @HomertonCollege. Explore more 👉 cam.ac.uk/news/wildfires-and… #Heatwave #Wildfires #Environment #Epidemiology #Cambridge #UniversityOfCambridge

*** WELCOMING APPLICATIONS NOW FOR SEPTEMBER 2026 *** The UCD MSc in One Health is a new one-year Masters programme designed for graduates who are passionate about the interconnectedness of human, animal, plant and environmental health, looking for a global career that spans sectors, disciplines and institutional boundaries. The first programme of its kind to be offered in Ireland, students will learn from a diverse group of internationally recognised experts from across UCD and will benefit from innovative learning and skills training. This will equip them with the capabilities to put One Health into practice. We are inviting graduates with a minimum Level 8 degree or international equivalent from diverse disciplines, e.g. health, veterinary, environment, agriculture, food systems, policy, economics, law, data and related fields, to apply now for a September 2026 start. Find all the details at ucd.ie/phpss/about/subjectar…

Always a pleasure working with academic partner-in-crime @DaalenKim 😁 This 📰 stems from our projects which highlighted the hegemonic nature of global health academia/decision-making 🌎 by examining #methods used to measure representation/diversity Read ➡️tinyurl.com/LGH26

New 📰 in @LancetGH ✨ Structural inequities remain deeply embedded in global health governance and knowledge production We examine how diversity is measured in global health when demographic data are unavailable, & their ethical implications. More ⤵️ thelancet.com/journals/langl…

📰✨ In our new @TheLancetPlanet paper, we discuss the importance of disentangling the different dimensions of urban heat vulnerability🥵 (exposure, susceptibility, and adaptive capacity) for effective and equitable adaptation👇 thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… #ClimateChange #HeatRisk

Study (N=690) finds women are disproportionately shouldering caregiver strain (the burdens of coordinating care for children, parents & others) & caregiver strain, not ambition or seniority, was the strongest predictor of burnout & exit consideration. fastcompany.com/91515254/wom…

Suicide is now the LEADING cause of death for US medical residents. We are losing 500 physicians a year. That is an entire med school class. Stop demanding "resilience" from doctors and start fixing the system. Tie executive bonuses to wellness, not just RVUs. Link to the recent episode is in the comments 👇

I currently have three papers in review at "high impact" journals. One of them has been sitting there for two years. In that time my daughter was born and learned how to walk, but apparently publishing a PDF was still not possible for me. For another one, after four months in review the editor told me they cannot find a second reviewer and asked me to suggest more reviewers. A third one sent me a message in 2026 saying the PDF I uploaded was larger than 10 MB and that I should please reupload everything to make the file smaller. All of this just to eventually pay between 7,000 and 12,000 USD per paper so someone can officially approve that the science we do is "legitimate". Reminder: not a single reviewer will be compensated here. I still don't understand how we as scientists can collectively be so smart when doing science and still tolerate a system like this when it comes to sharing our findings. We should move to preprints plus open review, whether human or AI, asap. So frustrated about it. I'd suggest sharing your work on bioRxiv or medRxiv, reading and reviewing preprints when you can, and highlighting good research, especially if it is still a preprint. Try platforms like ResearchHub (that pay for peer review) and experiment with AI based reviewers for faster feedback. Instead I read this as a proposed "revolutionary" measure:

✨NEW✨How does climate change affect sleep, and why does it matter? In our @naturesustainab Comment, we discuss new research showing that rising temperatures may increase global sleep loss, with potential broader societal implications 🌍💤🌡️ 📰nature.com/articles/s41893-0…

Global military expenditure just hit $2.7 trillion - in a single year. According to @UN estimates, ending world hunger by 2030 would require $93 billion annually. That means we spend almost 30 times more every year on killing each other than on making sure everyone eats. Numbers don't lie. Our priorities do.

In 2026, only 28 countries are led by a woman Head of State or Government; 101 countries have never had a woman leader. 14 countries have gender parity in cabinets, demonstrating that equal representation is possible. Yet 8 have no women ministers at all.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/…

"The strikes against vital civilian infrastructure in the Middle East are further increasing risks for populations across the region & beyond." @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk stresses the imperative of accountability when the laws of war are violated. ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink. Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely. Read more 👇 amn.st/6011B61WAb

Research assistants (RAs) are the backbone of community-based trials in #globalhealth research—yet the ethical and emotional challenges they face when encountering vulnerabilities beyond their professional scope are often overlooked. Read more: rdcu.be/e7XSm

Congratulations to SPHPSS Prof Akke Vellinga and the PRUDENCE research team whose research into the use of point-of-care testing in reducing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections has been published in The Lancet Primary Care journal. The research involved 2642 patients in 13 European countries and showed unequivocally that point-of-care testing in general practice does NOT reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections overall or influence patient recovery, finally giving an answer to the question of whether or not we should introduce these tests in general practice. Read the research at: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… and authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… #GP #generalpractice #antibiotics #respiratoryinfection #thelancet