Professor of Public Health. Personal account. My post are my personal opinions & not those of any organisation. Boosts are not necessarily endorsements. #CountLongCovid #WomenInStem #MedMastodon #PublicHealthMastodon #Equity #Epidemiology #Intersectionality #Flowers
Here's our pitch in the Lancet (myself with Ziyad Al-Aly) towards shifting the paradigm on infection-induced/associated NCDs learning from #LongCovid.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02256-6/abstract
"Governments must face the reality that some infections which are largely regarded as only acute cause a substantial burden of chronic illnesses, and must integrate ways to address the challenges that it presents into international, national, and local systems."
Have you been to #Beirut?
It’s where the beauty is.
They call it Paris of the East.
It has a magical aura despite the bullet holes on the buildings.
The people are wonderful. Hospitable and creative. They love to live.
My heart breaks for it and for them.
We care, Beirut 💔
Stay safe!
#Southampton #Riots
https://www.southampton.gov.uk/news/article/council-leader-issues-statement-ahead-of-potential-protests-in-southampton/
Colleagues are asking if I’m OK with the hostile events going on in England and offering their support and empathy. They’re doing so as part of emails about usual business and it’s so sweet and means a lot 🥹 #riots
Dear students, here’s the deal to avoid confusion:
You can register at BOTH family home and term-time address if you wish. PLEASE make sure you’re registered at at least one.
You can choose which one to vote at and you can only vote at one.
Pls vote 🙏
#GeneralElection
https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/who-can-vote/students
The #economy is the tool. #wellbeing is the goal.
You don’t seek health to work, you seek work to be well.
You don’t try to prevent people going off sick to save the economy god, you use the economy servant to achieve population wellbeing.
Let’s recalibrate, folks!
The #economy is the tool. #wellbeing is the goal.
You don’t seek health to work, you seek work to be well.
You don’t try to prevent people going off sick to save the economy god, you use the economy servant to achieve population wellbeing.
Let’s recalibrate, folks!
I’m marking but not celebrating #InternationalWomensDay
I won’t say happy IWD. How can it be with Palestinian women & girls being bombed, made homeless & literally starved with the blessing & silence of powerful people who pretend to be feminist. At least spare us the hypocrisy.
#Gaza
#ceasefirenow
Good morning friends, sharing my quote for the day. Finally I found a definition of success that I like!
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
@LFLegal great advice. Thanks
I dream of #writing. I have a constant nagging feeling that there’s so much in my head that I need to put on paper. But I make excuses: time, family, work tasks (lots of editing other people’s writing!) etc. I block writing days but they always fall below my expectations.
Help!
Remain (as in opposing #Brexit is not a value in itself. It was always a means to achieve or retain values. Don’t get too attached to the vehicle and forget the destination.
The common advice is “be yourself” but they often don’t tell you that in order to be yourself you must find her first after many years of social indoctrination. So I think it’s more realistic to say: take your time to find your true self & forgive her if she’s not sure for a while.
Good morning 😊☀️
I’m a professor but I sometimes feel vulnerable, tired, bored, overwhelmed, frustrated, angry or ignorant, just like early career folk do. Maybe more.
Never in my career have I been motivated by those who acted invincible, so why would I pretend to be so now?
#academicchatter
#academicmastodon
No matter how much we dislike people disliking us, the thought that some of them do is healthy for us. Accepting this as a fact of life is necessary.
For those raised to be people pleasers, maybe use this as a mantra: To live I must breathe, sleep, drink, eat & be disliked ☺️
Measles is a potentially lethal disease that very almost killed my brother. Its so upsetting to see cases on the rise. It is completely preventable with an MMR vaccine. Its clear disinformation and misinformation are feeding into low levels of vaccine uptake. We urgently need a vaccine strategy!
https://news.sky.com/story/measles-warning-amid-devastating-resurgence-of-life-threatening-diseases-as-vaccination-rates-miss-targets-13012372
2/ We shouldn’t be afraid of labels like ‘woke’ or ‘being political’.
Our job is not to be ‘impartial’.
I am partial to acting on what facilitates or blocks population wellbeing, whether locally, nationally or globally.
The factors above are evidence-based health shapers.
1/ In PUBLIC HEALTH, population wellbeing is our business, therefore:
Education is our business.
The environment is our business.
Poverty is our business.
Discrimination is our business.
War & violence are our business.
So holding politics to account is absolutely our business.
