This is going to be great! ping @mkellyirving.bsky.social @ises-epi.bsky.social @kavindigamage.bsky.social

6k euro to publish a paper in Lancet Public Health

Let’s just sit & think about that

Students & post docs need these publications for their career

Our institutions, who don’t fund us properly, want us to publish in these journals

We raise the cash, do the research & reviewing for these journals

📢 New Commentary in @nataging.nature.com — rdcu.be/ejE8n

Caregiving for and by older adults remains a vital yet overlooked contributor to the wellbeing economy and healthy aging.

@anitavanzwieten.bsky.social, Mouna Sawan, Jo-An Occhipinti, @jjaimemiranda.bsky.social @samtani-suraj.bsky.social

Happy Nowruz 🪻🌷✨

Call for Discussion Papers: Global (Dis)Order

How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

The contribution of childhood adversity to adult socioeconomic gradients in mortality: A Swedish birth cohort analysis “Child maltreatment is a leading cause of health inequality” according to a leading WHO report. This statement is often assumed, yet, the size of the …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why Poor American Kids Are So Likely to Become Poor Adults Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the biggest role.

Child poverty in the U.S. is four times as likely to lead to adult poverty than in Denmark and Germany, and twice as likely than in the UK and Australia. Why? I write about our findings on "the intergenerational persistence of poverty" today in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal.

A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook

Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material.

Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

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Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

Lost decade in health improvement as flatlining data shows no change since 2011 New data published today by the Office for National Statistics shows that there has been no change in health improvement since 2011, as the percentage of people who reported being in "very good" or "g...

Earlier this week we published analysis of new ONS data showing that there had been no change in self-reported health between 2011 and 2021.

This represents a lost decade. It emphasises the need to put prevention at the heart of the Govt's plans to build health.

🔗 www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/new...

Prioritizing Research on Social Determinants of Health This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of prioritizing social determinants of health in reducing health disparities and advancing health equity.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Flyer for the Introduction to Causal Inference Course for Health & Social Scientists, taking place on 7th-11th July 2025

PLEASE SHARE: Registration is now open for the next Introduction to Causal Inference Course for Health & Social Scientists (7-11 July 2025, Leeds, UK).

See more info & register here: www.causal.training

Note, we are not planning any other courses until 2027.

#CausalIntroCourse #EpiSky #CausalSky

Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer Obtaining accurate estimates of the causal effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health is important for public health interventions. To do this, researchers must identify and adjust for all pote...

Thank you JCE for this initiative! Our paper in JCE focused on using causal diagrams to avoid overadjustment bias @mkellyirving.bsky.social @samankhalatbari.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

It is finally alive!

The almighty database of our mapineq.eu -Horizon Europe project. Design and implementation by @melindacmills.bsky.social and Doug Leisure, hosted at University of Groningen.
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NSW government comes down hard on vape suppliers | Health Services Daily New legislation could see maximum fines of up to $1.5m and imprisonment for up to seven years applied to those caught illegally supplying vaping products.

NSW government comes down hard on vape suppliers www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/nsw-governme...

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

Hi folks, here's the thread I promised about the latest edition of Health Inequality. I hope it makes sense

#PublicHealth
#HealthInequality
#Equity
#SocialJustice
#Lifecourse
#Embodiment
#SystemsOfPower
#CommercialDeterminants
#Episky
#Academicsky

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My hand holding up a copy of a book titled “Health Inequality” in front of house plants & a window

Look what I finally received in the post!!

A real life copy of “Health Inequality” 3rd edition that Mel @zetkin.bsky.social & I have been working on for the last 2 years!

Would you be interested is a wee thread about this ed? If so, I’ll prepare one

It’s a good #socialepi & social science primer

In case you missed it, slides & readings from our

Reimagining Global Health

summer course is available here:

www.teachepi.org/courses/reim...

Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods, 3rd Edition The persistence of stark health inequalities in today’s world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world....

My wonderful colleague @zetkin.bsky.social & I have been working on the 3rd edition of “Health Inequality”

It will come out in Nov

More information here⬇️
#academicsky
#episky
#sociologysky

www.wiley.com/en-fr/Health...

As part of the Gendhi project gendhi.eu/en/home/ we're developing a shiny app to support researchers working on social & health inequalities to select appropriate counterfactual causal inference models

Its in French for now, but we'll translate it & hopefully integrate other causal model types too

New opinion piece by David Wallace-Wells for the NYT argues for a broader framing of the American mortality disadvantage with more attention to structural analyses of the policies and systems contributing to poor health.

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/o...

Public Understanding of Sociology Award | American Sociological Association The Public Understanding of Sociology Award is given annually to an ASA member or group of members who have made exemplary contributions to advance the public

Hello ... are we ... SociSky? SocSky? Anyway, I'm on the ASA Public Understanding of Sociology award committee again this year, and last year most applications were self-nominations. Nominate yourself, a friend, a stranger you respect - due Jan 1 (why Jan 1 tho?).
www.asanet.org/about/awards...

Camille Robcis, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France In the early nineteenth century, the French alienist J.E.D. Esquirol argued that psychiatric institutions held transformative power. Those experiencing symptoms

Here's a link to my review of Camille Robcis' excellent study of postwar radical psychotherapy. Somehow I missed it when it was first published! The whole book is great, but I especially love the Fanon chapter.