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Johanna Ralston

@johannaralston.bsky.social
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Write in personal and professional capacity about health, mostly global chronic disease; mother, patient, gifted with amazing friends; US-UK-global work and travel.

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Johanna Ralston @johannaralston.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
From Boston University, a tool to calculate the human cost of abrupt loss of federal AID funding. This will also produce indirect deaths over time. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art... @kentbuse.bsky.social
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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Johanna Ralston @johannaralston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.euronews.com/health/2025/...
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Obesity rates expected to surge worldwide in coming decades
About six in 10 adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, according to new projections.
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Johanna Ralston @johannaralston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Thanks @theguardian.com for two good stories on the global #obesity challenge this week, including new @worldobesity.bsky.social atlas and Lancet report. See Atlas on the steps needed for shared action and impact. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report
Analysis forecasts a third of young people will also be overweight or obese, in ‘unparalleled’ threat to health
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Johanna Ralston @johannaralston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Watching this excellent interview was, for me, a constructive scolding: staying on the sidelines is not an option. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
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WATCH: Inside the Musk/Trump psychodrama. The void of a Democratic leader. Are Americans docile?
My conversation with legendary editor and skewerer of everyone Tina Brown
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Johanna Ralston @johannaralston.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Thank you to our friends at @thelancet.bsky.social for an excellent launch this week, and for your commitment to reframing the #obesitynarrative. Going beyond an “either or” approach - disease vs. risk factor, health vs food - is essential for finally turning the corner & aiding > 1 billion lives.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 18/01/2025
Nice overview of what's at stake (for the US and the world) if the Trump Administration pulls the US out of the WHO... 🛟medsky episky health policy policysky sociology 📉 polisky
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A World Without WHO
This Viewpoint explores concerns surrounding possible US withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the effect this would have on US global health leadership and health security.
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