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Courtney McNamara

@drmcnamara.bsky.social
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Lecturer of Public Health @ Newcastle University in NE England Chair, Trade & Health Forum, @aphapublichealth.bsky.social Health equity, macroeconomics, international trade, social determinants of health, commercial determinants of health

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 29/01/2026
The US government’s assertive use of import tariffs means the health implications of trade policy can no longer be sidelined. Trade policy needs greater attention from health researchers and public health experts, say @drmcnamara.bsky.social and Benjamin Hawkins www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
First quick look at the new UK Trade Strategy: zero mention of public health....
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Was anyone else waiting for the UK trade strategy to drop at 9:15 only to be met with a website error? Is this... the first non-tariff barrier? 👀 @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers, assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
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Opinion | ‘Tasteless, Hideous and Repulsive’: Trump Wants You to Eat Inferior Tomatoes
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump got what he wanted: everyone to stop gawping at his embarrassing fallout w/ Elon Musk..in the meantime, the world has learned something useful abt who wins in a standoff btwn 2 giant egos, 1 of whom has all the $ & the other of whom has all the exec. power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff
The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populism, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 06/06/2025
"Whether we’re doctors, scientists, or ordinary citizens, we need to be clear sighted—and to engage in whatever forms of resistance to authoritarianism we can find the courage to muster." @johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Moving chess pieces on the world
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #sdoh
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‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Trump evading the question over whether UK will now accept hormone treated beef
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This deal is completely being used to justify Trump’s mad tariff operation.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
So Sky news reports that the UK US trade deal announced today consists of "no physical UK-US trade document" that will be signed. Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Reporters are gathered and waiting for the 10 am WH trade announcement- which is clearly running late. I was told about an hour ago that details in the agreement were still changing, and no information was final until the actual event. So that could explain the hiccup here.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Alas, no. The press is reporting it as a "trade deal" & a "trade agreement" in the headlines, so everyone will believe that it is a legal deal/agreement. Total failure of journalism. @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 04/04/2025
China's response: - additional 34% tariffs on all US imports - add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities” - limits on exports of seven rare earth elements - two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment - block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The potential health impacts of a UK-US free trade agreement goes way beyond chlorinated chicken: www.bmj.com/content/374/.... #sdoh #cdoh
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The threat of a UK-US trade deal to managing non-communicable diseases
Courtney McNamara argues that a trade deal between the UK and US could limit the UK’s ability to manage non-communicable diseases unless the agreement includes public health safeguards For over four ...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Important point
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is the direct result of the inane fake "formula" they used to calculate tariff rates. It penalizes poor, export-dependent states who cannot afford large volumes of US exports and who have been forced by colonial and postcolonial economic structures into a dependence on primary commodity exports
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform” www.croakey.org/on-the-wider... #SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others
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On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform”
Introduction by Croakey: Last year, we published an article investigating whether "the cost of living crisis" that is so often
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Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…
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What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association Australia Preventive Health Conference 2025 'Prevention is Political'. At the end is a win-win scenario: you can continue to evidence or prevention as part of the world’s least exciting adventure game, and I can swerve a proper conclusion.
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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Here’s a link to the 2016 Hassett/Sullivan paper which also shows that 45% of recessions happen in the first year after an election, linked in part to policy uncertainty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Policy Uncertainty and the Economy
This paper assesses the economics literature on policy uncertainty, addresses puzzles in that literature, and highlights pertinent empirical regularities. Altho
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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EU wields ‘sledgehammer’ against Trump tariffs
Brussels strikes back against the U.S. president’s 25 percent levies on steel and aluminum.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm adding civil service reform to industrial strategy, immigration and regulation as subjects where aggressive government briefing bears no resemblance to what is likely to happen. As a driver of populism this gap between rhetoric and reality is perfect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Plan to cut thousands of civil service jobs in radical government shake-up
Exclusive: Proposals also include cutting thousands of civil service jobs and restructuring NHS England
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📣 New Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health edited by @tobabryant.bsky.social 📣 Proud to contribute a chapter on why most SDH frameworks fail to challenge individualized notions of health— and how a global political economy approach overcomes this challenge. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
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Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health
‘This volume provides a much needed critical, contemporary and global analysis of the social determinants of health in an increasingly unequal world. With chapters by leading experts from across the w...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
What Trump - and many politicians - don't understand about modern trade is that we've never had so many products and services available, and that's come from technology creating global markets. He's imposing tariffs as if we're in the 1950s. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The US Has Never Imported So Much Food
The US, known for being a global agriculture powerhouse, has never imported so much food.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
When the going gets tough, the tough get creative. Available at: tinyurl.com/yv3njkvr #AlwaysCanada #Never51 #EconSky #CanadaSky
White circular sticker with red maple leaf in the middle and text: "You can't spells tariffs without FFS."
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“It's absolutely the case that even if tariffs aren't applied to the U.K. we will be affected by slowing global trade, by slower GDP growth and by higher inflation than otherwise would be the case,” Reeves told hundreds of top British www.politico.eu/article/us-d...
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Trump exempting us from tariffs won’t prevent economic damage, says UK’s Reeves
Trump imposed a flat 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada, and increased duties on Chinese goods from 10 to 20 percent.
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣📣📣OPEN NOW! The 2025 Call for Abstracts is live! 📝Showcase your research 📈at the Trade & Health Forum at the APHA Annual Meeting Nov 2-5,2025 in Washington D.C. ⏰Deadline to Submit an abstract is March 28. Apply today! apha.confex.com/apha/2025/wg...
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Trade and Health Forum
Trade and Health Forum
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Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
For perhaps a few weeks only, now is an excellent time to be exporting stuff to the US from anywhere other than Canada, Mexico, and China
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Yesterday's Trump tariffs - 25% with Canada and Mexico (with whom he signed USMCA), an extra 10% on China (with whom he signed a 2020 trade deal). Don't do deals with him. Withdrawal of aid to Ukraine. Because he's on the side of authoritarians, pretty obviously.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 04/03/2025
UK leader Keir Starmer is hardly the most obvious wartime envoy — and yet in the weeks since Donald Trump first shocked allies with his stance on Ukraine, the British prime minister has emerged as a leading player in the international response. 🔗 ow.ly/WrWm50V9ZIV
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Tarriffs in Trump's second term in office
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Trade pacts are two-way negotiations and experts warn that one key risk to the UK is that the Trump administration will push for a much wider agreement, covering areas such as technology regulation and more access for US pharmaceutical companies to the NHS" on.ft.com/4hVAojK
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What’s at stake in the US-UK trade talks?
Donald Trump has raised the prospect of a deal that could help Britain avoid tariffs
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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Avoidable inequalities in health. Further evidence, if more were needed, that equality is the best therapy, as psychologists for social change put it, & that addressing the social determinants of health is vital as @michaelmarmot.bsky.social shows. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Cancer death rates 60% higher in deprived areas, UK research finds
Analysis by Cancer Research UK says there are 28,400 extra cancer deaths across the UK every year due to deprivation
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Forget about inflation. Now it’s all about cutting ‘waste’ in the form of jobs and our already paltry social safety net www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead
Forget about inflation. Now it’s all about cutting ‘waste’ in the form of jobs and our already paltry social safety net
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Douglas Busvine @busvine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The US is now seeking to condition access to the US market on subordination to US preferences on regulation and taxation. The EU cannot accept this. mailings.cer.eu/insights/tru...
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Trump's tariffs – how should the EU react?
The ‘Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Plan’ proposed by Donald Trump sounds innocuous but is a roadmap towards an all-out global trade war. To avert one, Europe must act firmly and speedily.
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Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks to all who joined our symposium on deindustrialisation and health this week - particular thanks to @gscheiring.bsky.social for such a fascinating keynote that brought so many aspects of the day together. Looking forward to developing some of these ideas further! @drmcnamara.bsky.social
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
And just like that, the Demographic and Health Surveys are done www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
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Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program
The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
President says at first cabinet meeting that levies would be applied ‘generally’ and that more details would come soon
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Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
While working on these studies, this was the finding that I couldn't stop thinking about. Reproductive justice folks warned us about this.
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Courtney McNamara @drmcnamara.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Donald Trump Wants You to Die open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Donald Trump Wants You to Die
The attack on public health begins
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Shelina Visram Hodgson @shelinavh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please help with our study on #socialmedia and #breastfeeding support. The survey should only take around 10mins and all responses are anonymous. You can also opt into a prize draw to win one of three £20 shopping vouchers. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/...
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