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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health

Latest issue 3(2) now out! Read, download, share with your colleagues - and please do make sure they all know that JCPH is THE diamond #OA community owned-critical #publicheatlh journal.
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This is excellent on journal cascading.

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Excess mortality in England and Scotland in 2022: The long shadow of austerity and the return to an unacceptable pre-pandemic baseline | Journal of Critical Public Health

New paper: Daniel Bradford, Denise Brown, @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & colleagues identify austerity as well as COVID to blame for excess mortality
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Synthetic certainization in medical controversy: Evidence synthesis, NICE recommendations and the drug-device complex in stroke prevention | Journal of Critical Public Health

New paper: Gowree Balendran & John Abraham's case study of how industry & regulatory system can curtail uncertainty in med technology
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Bait and switches in academic publishing | Journal of Critical Public Health

Had a declined paper 'referred' to a 'sister' journal recently? Kirsten Bell reflects on 'bait & switch' in a new editorial
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1 of 2: The findings in this new paper @cphjournal.bsky.social were the focus of a publication we withdrew from Public Health Reports last year, due to political interference
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Drivers of rural inequities in nicotine and tobacco use: A qualitative study of emerging and early established adults in California’s North State in the USA | Journal of Critical Public Heal...

New paper! Published online first from @tamar-antin.bsky.social and colleagues: on drivers of inequalities in rural tobacco use journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

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This launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/

@cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.

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Apologies all: the OJS system is down today for an upgrade: no access to published content in JCPH or to the submission site.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health

The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems -
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New @cphjournal.bsky.social special issue on decentring health systems out: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph featuring articles exploring how competing narratives, agency & resistance shape health policy & practice. Includes papers examining economic restructuring... 1/4

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I have a paper on the post-politics of multistakeholder partnerships in a new special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social on 'narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health'

great to be involved in an SI with so many brilliant colleagues and all papers are open access

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Decentring health systems: Narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health | Journal of Critical Public Health

Read the introductory editorial by @profkatsmith.bsky.social & colleagues to the SI on Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems here:
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health

Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth
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#sexualhealth #publichealth

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Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us | Journal of Critical Public Health

New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health

New special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social: Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective
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Guest edited by @laurasochas.bsky.social, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreager

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I have a new article out in special issue on reproductive vulnerabilities!

My piece examines how a community of (anonymized) African women makes sense of the contraceptive coercion they experience, using the lenses of gendered vulnerability and imperial feminism

The whole issue looks incredible!

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‘Gay issues have come and it is worrying us’: Interrogating vulnerability, masculinities, and reproduction through queerphobic narratives among men in Accra, Ghana | Journal of Critical Publ...

Part of the new Special Issue on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: Joe Strong, Nii Kwartelai Quartey, Ojeeko Tackie & Nii Kwartei Richard Owoo analyse men’s expressions of queerphobia through the lens of vulnerability
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health

📖Recommended reading
Our article 'Measuring social inequalities in self-reported #miscarriage experiences in the UK' is now part of a special issue 'Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective' in Journal of Critical Public Health
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Reproductive vulnerabilities: A critical perspective | Journal of Critical Public Health

see the introductory editorial here:
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health

Our first Special Issue is out now! It's on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective - Guest editors: Laura Sochas, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager

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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.

Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.

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The post-politics of partnership: Understanding corporate power in multistakeholder governance | Journal of Critical Public Health

New 'online first' paper from Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social - on 'multi-stakeholderism' in food policy, and how this renders power of corporations less visible
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Population chatter for clearer and broader thinking about fertility | Journal of Critical Public Health

New 'online first' publication from Jenny Trinitapoli & Gertrude Finyiza on the value of listening in to 'population chatter': part of our forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on #reproductive vulnerabilities
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Is there a place for hope in the imagined future of public health? A commentary building on Freire’s sociology of hope. | Journal of Critical Public Health

New commentary published 'online first' from Paul Ward & Belinda Lunnay on drawing on sociology of hope in public health
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Conceiving strife: Relational vulnerabilities in couples with male infertility in Pakistan | Journal of Critical Public Health

New 'online first' publication from Uzair Amjad on male infertility in Pakistan - part of an exciting forthcoming special issue on critical perspectives on reproductive vulnerabilities!
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Challenges of researching racism in healthcare | Journal of Critical Public Health

New online first Research & Practice Note from Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Beth Maina Ahlberg & Sarah Hamed:
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Anti-abortion politics and changes in abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey | Journal of Critical Public Health Abortion has been legal without restriction in Turkey since 1983. However, the government’s anti-abortion campaign in 2012 has resulted in significant restrictions on abortion services, particularly…

Anti-abortion politics & changes in abortion, miscarriage & stillbirth across time and social strata in Turkey
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Paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social by @selinkoksal.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Francesco Billari & Fellow @aksoyundan.bsky.social

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Becoming embedded: A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities | Journal of Critical Public Health

Just published online first: paper from Hannah Newman, Louca-Mai Brady, Elspeth Mathie, Kathryn Almack & Wendy Wills on co-designing services with diverse communities
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