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Joyce Browne

@joycebrowne.bsky.social
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MD, PhD | Associate Professor @UMC Utrecht & Utrecht University Global Health, Maternal Health, Health Equity, Planetary Health, Equitable Partnerships, Knowledge Translation

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/05/2026
At the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the front line is completely overwhelmed. Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, describes what he saw in the Ebola ward at Mongbwalu General Hospital. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
💚 Meer dan een jaar geleden begonnen we met een serie workshops om een praktische definitie en handboek te ontwikkelen voor klimaatrechtvaardigheid. /1
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Central England temperature record represents the longest series of monthly temperature observations in existence. Recent temperatures there are over 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, and over 2 degrees above preindustrial values. Chart: UK Met Office.
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This summer we will be organizing 5 #GlobalHealth and #PlanetaryHealth summer schools in Utrecht, 🇳🇱. 🔹Fundamentals of Global Health, 6-10 juli: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life... 🔹 Public Health in Humanitarian contexts, 13-17 juli: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/life... /1
Poster with the 5 summer schools.
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🌍 📚 ☀️ Join us for Global Health Ethics & Equity - Utrecht Summer School 📅 20-24 July in Utrecht, the Netherlands With @seyeabimbola.bsky.social, @riekevdgraaf.bsky.social, & many guest lectures! /1
Poster Global Health Ethics & Equity summer school
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NRC @nrc.nl · 02/11/2025
VNG noemt berichten waarin verkiezingsfraude wordt gesuggereerd ‘directe bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat’
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VNG noemt berichten waarin verkiezingsfraude wordt gesuggereerd ‘directe bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat’
De Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG) heeft de berichten waarin verkiezingsfraude wordt gesuggereerd „een directe bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat” genoemd.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Devastation on repeat: 1,000+ dead, 6.9M affected by Pakistan’s monsoon floods Climate change is melting glaciers, intensifying monsoon rains, and worsening floods, hitting the poorest hardest in a country responsible for just 1% of global GHG emissions www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Devastation on repeat: How climate change is worsening Pakistan's deadly floods - BBC News
The BBC speaks to those who have lost everything in this year's monsoon season and finds out why it will likely happen again.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition www.who.int/news/item/22...
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Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...
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NRC @nrc.nl · 10/07/2025
Dertig jaar na de genocide in Srebrenica is er geen plek in Nederland die daaraan herinnert. Bosnische Nederlanders zetten zich in voor een nationaal monument, maar de beoogde locatie in Den Haag zorgt voor vertraging. buff.ly/JyCjWfN
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Het wil maar niet lukken met een monument om de genocide van Srebrenica te herdenken
Srebrenica-monument: Dertig jaar na de genocide in Srebrenica is er geen plek in Nederland die daaraan herinnert. Bosnische Nederlanders zetten zich in voor een nationaal monument, maar de beoogde…
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/07/2025
Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events. Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
A line graph of world newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming from 2004 to 2025 in continents around the world.
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...
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Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs
Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/05/2025
If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux
The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 07/05/2025
🎧 Hoe goed zijn Nederlandse ziekenhuizen voorbereid op oorlog?
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Hoe goed zijn Nederlandse ziekenhuizen voorbereid op oorlog?
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Today is liberation day in the Netherlands. Clearly, democracy and rule of law is a lot of work, and we’re not doing it well enough. The Dutch constitution - within it a commitment to upholding international rule of law - offers so many clear guidance for an equitable, just and sustainable society.👇
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Mijn favoriete weerwoord als iemand mij sociale rechtvaardigheids-veranderdrang te nadrukkelijk aanwezig vindt. *Hállo, heb je ooit gelezen wat we eigenlijk in dit land zouden moeten doen met z'n allen volgens de grondwet?* #OpdeGrondVoorDeGrondwet #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth /1
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
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84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The future at risk: Tackling newborn and child mortality amidst a global health crisis Due to funding cuts, conflicts & climate change, so many countries are at risk of meeting SDG goals for newborns and kids journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Marlies ter Voorde 🏳️‍🌈 @mtvtjilpt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Ik sta in de Volkskrant! :-)
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Important reporting from my NPR colleagues on the human impacts of the cuts to U.S. foreign assistance. They share the story of twelve people - including kids - who have run out of HIV drugs in Zambia.
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Woensdag a.s. geef ik om 20 uur een lezing bij Studium Generale van @maastrichtu.bsky.social over #limitarisme - het idee dat er morele bovengrenzen aan rijkdom zijn. Gratis kaartjes: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/events/li...
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Limitarisme: pleidooi tegen extreme rijkdom - Agenda - Maastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht UniversityMaastricht University
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Very compelling study showing the association between herpes zoster vaccination and dementia prevention. The authors leveraged a unique cohort for this natural experiment which shows a reduction in dementia risk of 20% in vaccinated individuals. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Vandaag om 13 uur schuif ik aan in het radioprogramma van Dr. Kelder & Co om te praten over de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs en wetenschap, de relatie met democratie/autocratie, en de zeer zorgwekkende situatie die zich nu aan Amerikaanse universiteiten afspeelt. Wat leert dit ons?
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester"
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Marcel Verweij @marcelverweij.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Minister Eppo Bruins' brief aan de Tweede Kamer gecorrigeerd door #WOinActie @woinactie.bsky.social woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/woin...
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WOinActie verbetert beleidsbrief van Eppo Bruins
WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 22/03/2025
Zingen voor geluk. De wetenschap is eruit: samen zingen maakt gelukkiger
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De wetenschap is eruit: Snel gelukkiger worden? Ga zingen in een koor
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🇪🇺 EU #GlobalHealth Policy Forum, Brussels | 15 May 🚨 #EU Global Health Strategy 🚨 Global health #financing 🚨 #HealthEmergency prevention, preparedness 🚨 #LocalManufacturing in partner countries 🚨 #Sexual #ReproductiveHealth and Rights international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/global-healt...
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Global Health Policy Forum
Three years after the adoption of the European Union Global Health Strategy, the European Commission is organising the 2025 Global Health Policy Forum (GHPF). Global health stakeholders will gather to...
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
‘We will just die in silence': #USAID cuts hit #Ethiopia Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia’s war-affected #Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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'We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region
Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia’s war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration’s restrictions on foreign aid
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A brief PubMed outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We're getting our first estimates of the harm inflicted by the illegal shutdown of USAID, and they're predictably grim: 1 million children not treated for severe malnutrition annually 18 million new cases of malaria 200k kids paralyzed by polio “Unless reversed, this will cost millions of lives"
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U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
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Europe PMC @europepmc.org · 28/01/2025
Hello, Bluesky!👋 We are excited to connect with you!🌟 Europe PMC is an open database of global life science research - discover articles, preprints, theses, grants, and more. We talk about scholarly communication, open science, bioinformatics, and meta research. Follow us and join the conversation!
Trusted research on Europe PMC: Access a free collection of biomedical research: 45M articles and preprints with 10M as full text.
Research links on Europe PMC: Explore connected research with links to open data, peer reviews, protocols and more.Developer tools on Europe PMC: Innovate with resources for developers, from open APIs to training datasets and ML models.Europe PMC is a trusted platform: Supported by 35 funders, developed by EMBL-EBI and partner with PubMed Central.
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Amrish Baidjoe @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What is happening with Pubmed is unclear: what is clear, it can happen, now let us invest in decentralised systems that can't be switched off by national policies or leadership
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do
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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This contains all PubMed records and a great advanced search option. bsky.app/profile/ourh...
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Another dystopian situation in our biomedical knowledge production system: #PubMed, the database all scientists and students use is down. This harms science, health care, patients, communities, and policy making: evidence-based medicine requires findability of scientific articles.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
📢 New report on #Texas' abortion ban: - 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss - Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities - Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears 🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
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Rates of pregnancy-related sepsis and deaths grow in Texas after abortion ban
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Infectious Diseases @infectiousdz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do,” one current USAID worker estimates. The impact on PEPFAR HIV programs is likely even more severe. The number is likely much higher. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts
The Trump administration claims it is allowing “lifesaving” foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
4) Many scientists also feel an instictive aversion to advocacy, worried that it is not scientific or objective enough. 5) Some who benefit from changes in funding priorities will welcome the opportunity to further their own research. 19/24
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 14/02/2025
When patients are not heard by their doctors there can be devastating consequences. So why does this happen & what can be done to address it? On the cover, Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan explores this question. Read her full essay & more: tinyurl.com/5c7xwj2e ‪@drrageshri.bsky.social‬
Cover of The Lancet's Feb 15, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads "At the core of patients not being heard is the unequal power dynamic between doctor and patient. Each holds a different form of expertise...It is vital that we combine this expertise and collaborate."
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just published: ‘Key tips to shift student perspectives through transformative learning in medical education’, available here: bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MedEd #GlobalHealth #TranformativeLearning #PlanetaryHealth
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Amrish Baidjoe @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
What currently is happening in parts of DRC sends us back to very dark times. And am afraid this is just a part of what is occuring. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire
Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Reports of data theft, breaches of privacy and security by new US ministry DOGE multiply. Data in US are not secure One more reason to argue for European [public] data clouds Important @ec.europa.eu investigates extend to which public bodies in Member States have their data on clouds in US
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Trouw @trouw.nl · 10/01/2025
Zorgen om gezondheid grondpersoneel Schiphol. ‘Ik wil niet in een gifwolk staan’
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Zorgen om gezondheid grondpersoneel Schiphol. ‘Ik wil niet in een gifwolk staan’
Welke invloed hebben draaiende vliegtuigmotoren op de gezondheid van platformmedewerkers? Vakbond FNV eist grondiger onderzoek.
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Tip voor onderweg naar het kerstdiner, deze #ZoSimpelIsHetNiet over altruïsme, solidariteit en (gedrags)economie. open.spotify.com/episode/3Qln...
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De economie van altruïsme
Zo simpel is het niet – Stellinga & Schinkel over economie · Episode
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I wish Global North countries had the humility to learn from Rwanda’s quick and science-based response to the Marburg outbreak www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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The contrast between Rwanda’s handling of Marburg and the chaotic response to Covid-19 is stark
The country’s response prevented a crisis – and provided the world with a valuable blueprint for effective outbreak control
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