PCV schedule shift associated with increased vaccination inequalities in England Vaccine uptake data has been examined to assess the impact of moving from a '2+1' to a '1+1' Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) dose schedule on vaccine coverage and health inequalities among infants in England. Persistent inequalities remain a major barrier to achieving universal protection against life-threatening infections – reflecting findings from the UK Heath Security Agency National Immunisation Programme Health Equity Audit 2025. The findings from an interdisciplinary research team including data scientists, infectious disease epidemiologists and physicians from the University of Liverpool are published today (1 April 2026) in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. By performing a data analysis, researchers from the Institute of Population Health and the Institute of Infection, Veterinary & Ecological Sciences at the University of Liverpool have examined the trends in timely vaccine uptake before and after England changed its PCV dose schedule in January 2020 – transitioning from a "2+1" PCV schedule (two primary doses at 8 and 16 weeks, with a booster dose at 12 months) to a "1+1" PCV schedule (single primary dose at 12 weeks and a booster dose at 12 months). In a longitudinal study, the researchers analysed Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) uptake data from 2013-2025 for...

PCV schedule shift associated with increased vaccination inequalities in England
->News-Medical | More on "Vaccine inequality PCV schedule England" at BigEarthData.ai | #Health #Vaccination #Inequalities

Stock AI image of five children looking ghostly. The text reads ghost children they are in every community in Scotland. Mainly neurodivergent children and young people whose needs aren’t met in a mainstream school. They’re not a statistic they are a child missing school masking their distress feeling invisible.

Daily reminder that “ ghost children” really should alarm educators, local authorities and Government. They exist because the gap between legislation, policy and practice is huge. The long term damage is immense. Increased health inequalities, increased attainment gap. #inequalities, #asn #scotland

[6/6] Les chercheurs comme Tyler Page montrent que ces hôpitaux forment un système complexe, dépendant des politiques publiques et des assurances. Leur affaiblissement transforme durablement les territoires ruraux. #geography #healthcare #ruralspaces #inequalities #USA

Inherited inequalities: intergenerational gender norms and the non-migration of women in a changing climate Migration is widely recognized as an adaptation strategy to environmental risks (Boas et al., 2025), and environmental shocks often increase migration aspirations (Freihardt, 2025). According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) (2025), extreme weather events and disasters triggered an unprecedented 45.8 million internal displacements worldwide in 2024, nearly double the annual average of the past decade, with storms and floods accounting for the majority of these movements across multiple continents. While environmental factors significantly shape such mobility patterns, they intersect with social structures—including gender—to determine who moves and who remains (Hoffmann et al., 2019). In Bangladesh, seasonal climate disasters affect roughly 32% of coastal communities, and 64% of households in floodplain areas experienced at least one displacement due to river erosion, with an average of seven displacements per household (Seddiky et al., 2024; Khan et al., 2021). Displacement events often reproduce gendered vulnerabilities, as women disproportionately shoulder caregiving responsibilities and face mobility constraints (Furlong et al., 2022). Thus, one key understudied dimension of the relationship between environmental risk and staying in place (hereafter non-migration) is gender. Again, knowledge about how people respond to livelihood threats—whether to migrate or stay—within a particular environment is often passed down through generations (Mallick...

Inherited inequalities: intergenerational gender norms and the non-migration of women in a changing climate
->Nature | More on "Climate migration gender inequality Bangladesh" at BigEarthData.ai | #Climate #Inequalities

Make it Equal: Social science research for inclusion and equal opportunities in Europe | Infra4NextGen The event will focus on how social science research can support policies that reduce inequalities, promote social inclusion, and ensure equal opportunities.

A workshop on the Make it Equal theme of the Infra4NextGen project will take place from 9am-4pm (CET) on Tuesday 14 April.

The event will focus on how social science #research can support policies that reduce #inequalities, promote social inclusion, and ensure equal opportunities.

The work of the FITTER-EU project is to help ensure that Europe's twin transitions — digital and green — are inclusive and equitable. The #HorizonEurope project provides a platform for #policymakers to predict & mitigate negative impacts on #vulnerable groups helping to prevent #inequalities.

We have two super #summerschools @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgshw.bsky.social available to book now! If you would like a taster course on #AI in #Healthcare or Tackling #Health #Inequalities then worth considering. Deadline for applications early April........so if interested act now!

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax Sergey Brin gives $25m on top of $20m he’s already given to Super Pac trying to blocking state’s proposed 5% wealth tax

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax

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Looking for accessible, high-quality, carefully-documented data on wealth #inequalities, levels, composition, and trends? Explore the GC Wealth Project. The extensive data can be visualized and/or downloaded. @stone-lis.bsky.social
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“We have allowed #inequalities to harden, #socialmobility to stall, and trust to erode, undermining #socialcohesion.”

[8/8] Plusieurs chercheurs proposent d’autres leviers. Encadrer les loyers, limiter les locations touristiques, construire davantage de logements sociaux ou soutenir l’accession à la propriété. La crise du logement apparaît comme un enjeu territorial complexe. #geography #housingcrisis #inequalities

Que pensent les chercheurs du « Jeanbrun », nouveau dispositif de défiscalisation de l’investissement locatif ? Les économistes et géographes interrogés par « Le Monde » s’attendent à ce que le dispositif Relance logement ait un impact réel, mais limité, sur la production d’appartements neufs, et ne réponde que...

[1/8] Claire Ané analyse le nouveau dispositif "Jeanbrun", destiné à relancer la construction de logements locatifs. Inspiré du Pinel, il accorde un avantage fiscal aux investisseurs qui louent un logement neuf pendant 9 ans avec des loyers plafonnés. #geography #housingcrisis #inequalities

#Powerful message #Band 5 review in Scotland #Pay justice
#experienced nurses have been sitting at the same pay level for years. The work in Scotland shows how collective action and review processes can help address #historic #inequalities.
#RCNReps26 @rcnactivism.bsky.social

Thanks so much for inviting me to share our #SystematicReview on #Inequalities in #PalliativeCare in #Lung disease today - #LungCancer, #Mesothelioma #COPD #ILD
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Great to hear about all the other inspiring #PalliativeCare #Research @peolcsw.bsky.social 🙌

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So let’s look at historical #voting records and the systemic rise in #tax based #inequalities. Then add run down #education, decaying #universities and rising #health problems from #preventable #pollution of one sort or another. #auspol

Decades of feminism paved the road to Andrew’s arrest | Rebecca Solnit The outcry and activism of the 2010s – itself enabled by earlier generations of feminists – brought us to this moment. But if the Trump administration has its way, opposing forces will prevail

“It’s a reminder that #feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback from those who benefit from the old #inequalities and the old silences, which are pretty much the same thing.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What does renewed commitment to social development & social justice require today?
On #SocialJusticeDay, UNRISD calls for protecting #labourrights, ensuring #decentwork & #socialprotection, reducing #inequalities & advancing #economicjustice.

🔎 Learn more: ow.ly/NklR50Yj0cb

High-quality data is critical for identifying #inequalities in access, experience and outcomes.

We are committed to improving the quality of #ethnicity data, so that we can take a data-driven approach to reducing #healthcare #inequality.

Learn more at aace.org.uk/news/aace-we...

11/12 Contributory fairness is a dead end, it serves only to deepen and entrench existing #inequalities. Its close ally, equality of opportunity, is similarly a dead end. It will inevitably favour those who already have, those who already enjoy a material head start in life.

‘growing gap between elite & popular opinion on key issues and challenges..from #climatechange, #AUKUS and the recrudescence of neo-fascism to the #US alliance under Trump, #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza, and #inequalities and #unfairness resulting from #tax avoidance by the #wealthy’

Algorithmic Inequalities: How AI Hiring Tools Replicate Old Workplace Biases Dear reader, this article is free to read and it will remain free – but it isn’t free to produce. If you want to support the work that goes behind publishing high-quality feminist media content, please donate to FII and keep us paywall free. Thank you! Organisations globally are increasingly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools to filter, evaluate and shortlist candidates for jobs – initially these systems were touted as a solution to reducing administrative burden, accelerating efficiency and obliterating human prejudice from recruitment. However, a growing body of research suggests that instead of neutralising bias, AI-powered hiring tools are deeply embroiled in exacerbating existing inequalities in the labour market. This trend is particularly detrimental for women whose professional trajectories include career breaks – pauses in formal paid employment, often taken for caregiving, elder care, childbirth or other familial responsibilities – as well as those with unconventional, non-linear resumes. Unprecedented rise of AI in hiring Today AI has become deeply embedded in the global recruitment workflows. AI-driven recruitment in its nascent stages in the early 2000s included Application Tracking Systems (ATS), i.e., keyword-based resume screening to filter applicants based on specific qualifications and job descriptions. The advancements in machine...

Algorithmic Inequalities: How AI Hiring Tools Replicate Old Workplace Biases
->Feminism in India | More on "AI hiring tools workplace biases" at BigEarthData.ai | #Inequalities #AI

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"#Human #capital #expenditure has grown substantially, but with large and persistent #inequalities. #Public #education expenditure per school-age individual in Sub-Saharan #Africa is about 3% of the level observed in #Europe and North #America in 2025..."

Abundance | Basic Needs - Possibility Lab

[8/8] Les difficultés californiennes relèvent moins de la rareté que de l’allocation. Eau, nourriture et sécurité sont disponibles mais distribuées de manière inégale, selon des choix d’infrastructures, de politiques publiques et de priorités territoriales. #geography #water #resource #inequalities

Challenging California's water 'scarcity' narrative California doesn't have a water scarcity problem. It has a distribution problem, according to Nícola Ulibarrí, whose new research is reshaping how policymakers think about one of the state's most pres...

[1/8] Nícola Ulibarrí de Université de Californie à Irvine, coordonne un rapport pour le Possibility Lab de Berkeley. L’étude analyse l’accès à l’eau, à l’alimentation et à la sécurité en Californie à partir d’un prisme territorial. #geography #water #resource #inequalities

📣 Call for papers

🌍 The Eco-Social Summer School 2026 brings together PhD candidates and early-career researchers for an intensive programme on #sustainability transformation, #welfare states, #work, #inequalities, and eco-social policy.

📅 6-8 September 2026
📝 Apply by 13 February: etui.org/4oB

[8/8] Les limites biologiques ne sont pas atteintes. Les métropoles continuent de progresser, tandis que les écarts spatiaux appellent des politiques de santé ciblées pour réduire les inégalités territoriales de longévité. #geography #lifeexpectancy #health #demography #inequalities

Espérance de vie : une Europe à deux vitesses se dessine, avec des écarts de plusieurs années selon les régions Une étude menée dans 13 pays européens montre que le fossé se creuse à partir de 2005 entre des régions favorisées, où l’espérance de vie continue de progresser, et d’autres qui prennent du retard, où...

[1/8] Florian Bonnet (INED) et Pavel Grigoriev (BiB) analysent l’évolution de l’espérance de vie dans 13 pays européens révélant une #Europe à 2 vitesses, où les écarts régionaux de longévité se creusent depuis le milieu des années 2000. #geography #lifeexpectancy #health #demography #inequalities

Des données et une carte sur le vieillissement de la population en France L’INSEE a publié des estimations de population au 1er janvier 2026 qui permettent de construire une carte montrant la structure par âge de la population, en confrontant les moins de 25 ans aux 60 ans ...

[1/5] Jean-Benoît Bouron synthétise les nouvelles données de l’Insee au 1er janvier 2026 à travers une carte du vieillissement en France. Elle compare les moins de 25 ans aux 60 ans et +, révélant de forts contrastes territoriaux dans la structure par âge. #geography #demography #aging #inequalities

Pancrazio, Lionel. « Face à la crise du logement en France, quelles solutions durables ? ». Population & Avenir, 2026/1 n° 776, 2026. p.17-19.

[8/8] La crise du logement est aussi démocratique et territoriale. Penser des solutions durables implique de relier logement, mobilité, alimentation et énergie, et de replacer l’habiter au cœur des projets de société et de territoire. #geography #housingcrisis #inequalities #cities

The team had a great time at #NADEGS 2026 last week in Edinburgh!
We heard inspiring keynote talks on primary care challenges in Scotland from health #inequalities to AI.
The team presented work on remote monitoring, #cancer care, #HPV self‑sampling, and #rural health equity.