Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 10hOur periodic shout out to all our lovely reviewers! Good peer review is the beating heart of a good journal, and we're blessed with leading busy figures from the field who are supportive, generous and constructive. Thank you all! 010
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New online 1st publication! @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social, Robert McMaster & Ruth Dundas review 7 pictorial models of determinants of health journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Theories of population health: A review of pictorial models and a proposal for the Political Economy and Health model | Journal of Critical Public Health 031
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthJournal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New issue 3(3) published: check out latest research from leading scholars in critical #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 3 No. 3 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health 135
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026With an editorial by @judegreen.bsky.social on 'The (inevitable) politics of public health research' journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca The (inevitable) politics of public health research | Journal of Critical Public Health 032
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New issue 3(3) published: check out latest research from leading scholars in critical #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 3 No. 3 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health 135
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New paper online first, from Anna Brueckner Johansen & Mette Svendsen - in an ethnography of prioritization decisions they discuss framing the welfare state as an object of care journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Compassion for individual and collective futures: An ethnographic study of prioritization dilemmas in the Danish welfare state | Journal of Critical Public Health 041
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026And from earlier this year, the fantastic special issue on 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems' guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social @justin-waring.bsky.social & Mark Bevir 031
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Or check out our recent Special Issues if you missed them first time round - a great collection of cutting-edge papers on Reproductive Vulnerabilities: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health 121
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The JCPH editorial team is on August break - but the portal is still open for submissions and readers. Looking for some summer reading from leading authors on latest #publichealth critical scholarship? Catch up with our online first papers: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Online First | Journal of Critical Public Health 132
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New online first publication - for forthcoming special issue on 'Desirable/Undesirable Futures' - Claire Wendland on the unintended consequences of decision aids in #obstetric care. #metrics #maternalhealth #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Predictive tools in maternal health: Making futures for patients and populations | Journal of Critical Public Health 020
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is a much-needed initiative to ensure a sustainable future for #diamondOA journals. Academics: if you care about a healthy, non-commercialised journal infrastructure, see if your library is supporting this! 010
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthEvelyne de Leeuw @evdle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Better late than never: listen and read my views on the past and future of health promotion. vimeo.com/1213217598?s... @cphjournal.bsky.social @obshealth.bsky.social @who.int @umontreal-en.bsky.socialvimeo.comPast, present and future of health promotion - did we ever deliver the Ottawa Charter?For the Australian Health Promotion Association I was part of a celebration of 4 decades of the Ottawa Charter. In this presentation I show that this landmark approach to 'a new public health' was bot... 032
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Solidarity with Editorial team of Semantics of Natural Languages, who left Springer Nature (pushing them to publish more papers) to retain academic control over journal. Authors: please, when considering where you submit/review, do support #diamondOA community-owned journals when you are able! 072
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026New online-first publication: Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru on how LiST shapes the possibilities of intervention in child and maternal health #ReproHealth #maternalhealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca ‘Imaginative captivity’ in modeling future maternal and child health outcomes: A critical analysis of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) | Journal of Critical Public Health 021
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthJournal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New online Research & Practice Note: Victory Angeli on what motivates young adults to get involved in advocacy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Diversifying outreach: Key practices for recruiting youth from equity-seeking communities into North American mental health advocacy movements | Journal of Critical Public Health 001
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthJournal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026New online - Robert Lorway on 'crisis futurities' #STIs #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Crisis futurities in pathogen-responder relations in Kenya: A genealogical approach | Journal of Critical Public Health 011
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthJournal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Do less 'behaviouralist' health promotion programs just offer more ways to fail? New paper online first from Mathilde Laursen & Sara Offersen journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Lifestyle as living, or lifestyle as health behavior? A Danish case study of the contradictions and entanglements of contemporary health promotion in practice | Journal of Critical Public He... 011
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New online Research & Practice Note: Victory Angeli on what motivates young adults to get involved in advocacy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Diversifying outreach: Key practices for recruiting youth from equity-seeking communities into North American mental health advocacy movements | Journal of Critical Public Health 001
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthAlex Scott-Samuel @dralexss.bsky.social · 28/06/2026www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...thelancet.comAct now: oppose a new threat to US federally funded workThe global medical and public health community needs to be aware of a dire threat—and of the opportunities to challenge it—posed by a new rule proposed on May 29, 2026, by the second Trump administrat... 023
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthAlex Scott-Samuel @dralexss.bsky.social · 24/06/2026@cphjournal.bsky.social 011
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Do less 'behaviouralist' health promotion programs just offer more ways to fail? New paper online first from Mathilde Laursen & Sara Offersen journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Lifestyle as living, or lifestyle as health behavior? A Danish case study of the contradictions and entanglements of contemporary health promotion in practice | Journal of Critical Public He... 011
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026New online - Robert Lorway on 'crisis futurities' #STIs #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Crisis futurities in pathogen-responder relations in Kenya: A genealogical approach | Journal of Critical Public Health 011
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthAlly Brown @allybrown.bsky.social · 24/06/2026THREAD: How do the dynamics of devolution and the politics of health inequality interact? My new paper in @cphjournal.bsky.social explores the differentiation function of area-health comparisons. 🚨Contains Andy Burnham content!🚨 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc... 1/9journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Framing health inequalities to tell political stories: Devolution makes the difference | Journal of Critical Public Health 196
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We agree: our mass resignation from a commercial publisher enabled us to carve a crucial space in scholarly publishing, controlled by the academic community, for the academic community. It's not about IFs. 132
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New online first: Research & Practice note from Anne Trolard & colleagues describing 'hyperlocal' engagements needed for equitable vaccine program roll outs journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca ‘Our Community Our Health St. Louis’: Learning from COVID-19 vaccine outreach | Journal of Critical Public Health 000
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026New paper online first - Simon Pemberton, Mark Lucherini & Hannah Smith on 'sense of place' and smoking #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca The importance of sense of place for understanding health-related behaviours | Journal of Critical Public Health 022
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthKat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New paper from @allybrown.bsky.social, based on his PhD research, in the Journal of Critical Public Health. Really interesting analysis of how health inequalities can be framed (strategically) as part of broader, devolution agendas. Congratulations, Ally! journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Framing health inequalities to tell political stories: Devolution makes the difference | Journal of Critical Public Health 174
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthRachel @rrowanolive.bsky.social · 08/06/2026This is very juicy and articulates most of what infuriated me about #ImplementationScience: “ The field has rarely articulated the ways in which an underlying intervention naturalizes or obscures structural violence because it implicitly grants the premise of the intervention” 121
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026New online first paper: Ally Brown on how the politics of devolution shape 'health inequalities' narratives in policy journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Framing health inequalities to tell political stories: Devolution makes the difference | Journal of Critical Public Health 012
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Excellent new paper from Emily Claypool & Aaron Neiman just out! Ethnographic insights from trials to critique the 'absorption' of institutional logics in implementation science journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca ‘What are we doing here?’: Implementation science and the politics of research as context | Journal of Critical Public Health 011
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Latest 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. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health 023
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 31/03/2026This is excellent on journal cascading. 1113
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New paper: Daniel Bradford, Denise Brown, @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & colleagues identify austerity as well as COVID to blame for excess mortality journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca 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 131
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New paper: Gowree Balendran & John Abraham's case study of how industry & regulatory system can curtail uncertainty in med technology journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Synthetic certainization in medical controversy: Evidence synthesis, NICE recommendations and the drug-device complex in stroke prevention | Journal of Critical Public Health 020
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Had a declined paper 'referred' to a 'sister' journal recently? Kirsten Bell reflects on 'bait & switch' in a new editorial journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Bait and switches in academic publishing | Journal of Critical Public Health 053
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthCenter for Critical Public Health @criticalpublichealth.org · 13/03/20261 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 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca 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... 132
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026New 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...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca 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... 052
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This 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.openjournalscollective.org 065
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Apologies all: the OJS system is down today for an upgrade: no access to published content in JCPH or to the submission site. 020
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public Healthronaldlabonte.bsky.social @ronaldlabonte.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems - journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc.... It is the only journal dedicated to 'critical public heath', community-owned (not corporate). Check it out!journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health 055
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthKat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2026New @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... 1/4journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Journal of Critical Public Health 1178
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthRob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I 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 085
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Read the introductory editorial by @profkatsmith.bsky.social & colleagues to the SI on Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems here: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Decentring health systems: Narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health | Journal of Critical Public Health 010
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Now 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 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health 167
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026#sexualhealth #publichealth 010
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us | Journal of Critical Public Health 022
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthCenter for Critical Public Health @criticalpublichealth.org · 05/12/2025New special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social: Reproductive Vulnerabilities: A Critical Perspective journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc... Guest edited by @laurasochas.bsky.social, Kaveri Qureshi & Philip Kreagerjournalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health 021
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthLeigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025I 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!journalhosting.ucalgary.ca ‘When they force a woman, it’s to save her life’: Gendered vulnerability and contraceptive coercion | Journal of Critical Public Health 1114
Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Part 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 journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca ‘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... 010
Reposted by Journal of Critical Public HealthSOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025📖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 Full issue: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc... 1/2journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025) | Journal of Critical Public Health 123