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Nancy Karreman

@karremannancy.bsky.social
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Post-doc researcher interested in commercial determinants of health, corporate political activity, and wellness mis/disinformation. Also a fan of dog videos and nature. She/her.

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IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@karremannancy.bsky.social ‪@imsepidemiology.bsky.social‬ & @spidermaani.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social feature in the @publichealthpod.bsky.social in which they discuss the wellness industry and the growing scepticism of traditional medicine. Listen - bit.ly/4uQ1luw
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Public Health On Call: The Rise of “Big Wellness”
About this episode:   The wellness industry covers everything from fitness to biohacking, yoga to peptides, and it’s backed by culturally and financially powerful players. In this episode: a...
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Public Health On Call Podcast @publichealthpod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A recent @milbankfund.bsky.social paper applies a commercial determinants of health lens to the booming wellness industry. @karremannancy.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social the positives of the wellness industry as well as their concerns 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-rise-of-...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Don't let exploitive supplement GRIFT win! Little evidence to support use. Poorly regulated. Possible harm. www.bbc.com/news/article... "...'insane' how many supplements people are using." "...increasing numbers of patients are coming to him with liver problems caused by herbal supplements."
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Taking supplements every day? You might be doing more harm than good
While many of us take supplements regularly, there are some risks people may not be aware of.
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Public Health On Call Podcast @publichealthpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As the wellness industry grows, the responsibility of better health shifts to the individual. How does this square with public health's population-level interventions? Hear more from researchers @karremannancy.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-rise-of-...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States
Policy Points For half a century, firearm-related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID-19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rat...
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Public Health On Call Podcast @publichealthpod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The wellness industry can encourage healthy living, but it can also create some risks. @karremannancy.bsky.social suggests that some products and companies can turn people away from needed medical interventions. 🔗 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-rise-of-...
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Public Health On Call Podcast @publichealthpod.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
You've heard of Big Tobacco and Big Business but what about Big Wellness? @karremannancy.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social are co-authors of a recent @milbankfund.bsky.social article exploring wellness as a burgeoning industry. 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/the-rise-of-...
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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was a great pleasure to be invited on to the @publichealthpod.bsky.social with @karremannancy.bsky.social to discuss our recent paper in @milbankfund.bsky.social on the wellness industry as a commercial determinant of health @lhgp.bsky.social!
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I was so delighted to join @publichealthpod.bsky.social with @spidermaani.bsky.social to discuss our latest findings on the big business of #wellness based on our recent paper also with @marcozenone.bsky.social and Ben Hawkins. Give it a listen! 🎧
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What concerns?! 🤷‍♂️ Sounds like a great opportunity for Cambridge University’s Judge Business School to develop some new courses. Which ones do you think they should add? I’ll start: - the business of genocide
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Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns
Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Super valuable & needed analysis! 👇 The Political Economy of Wellness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "...wellness industry deploys political strategies closely resembling those of other harmful commodities industries, including undermining scientists and policymakers..." #ScienceMatters
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
How health influencers online are misleading the public www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... Me: “I call it science-ploitation. They will talk about stem-cells, and the microbiome and precision medicine in order to sell products, even though there is no good evidence to support their claims.”
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Breaking through the noise: How health influencers online are misleading the public
Gymgoers often look to personal trainers for advice or help to reach their goals.
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Marco Zenone @marcozenone.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The wellness industry’s influence goes beyond dubious health claims. Our new article led by @karremannancy.bsky.social with @spidermaani.bsky.social and Benjamin Hawkins examines the wellness industry from a commercial determinants of health perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
When MAHA is finally over, these are the types of legacies that will need to be cleaned up.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why do metaphors matter? Join our #webinar on 2 June (12-1) as we explore the metaphors we use in #PublicHealth and why they are essential to achieving the #policy changes needed to address the most pressing public health crises of our time. www.phiuk.org/news/events/...
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Local Health and Global Profits webinar: The power of metaphor in public health
Local Health and Global Profits webinar: The power of metaphor in public health
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Open access ⤵️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... With thanks to co-authors @marcozenone.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social and Ben Hawkins #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #CommercialDeterminants #CDOH #Wellness
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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi-trillion-dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well-being. Applying a lens of commercial determin...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
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Inclusive New Normal @inclusivenew.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Important to understand the drivers behind the concerted efforts made on disinformation, discrediting and dismantling of public health provision, that have been so evident since the pandemic began. As ever, follow the money.
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Read the full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi-trillion-dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well-being. Applying a lens of commercial determin...
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The #wellness industry is worth trillions, but how much do we know about its impact on public health and policy? New #research published today in The Milbank Quarterly delves into its growing prominence and why its harms deserve urgent attention.
New research: The political economy of wellness: Commercial determinants of a burgeoning industry: The Milbank Quarterly
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New paper out! 📢 The #wellness industry is a multi-trillion $ force: selling products, shaping norms, and now influencing policy. But it's rarely analysed in the way we scrutinize tobacco or pharma. We apply a commercial determinants of health lens to wellness, including #MAHA. Short thread 🧵⤵️
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our April newsletter is out! This issue covers a new #webinar on metaphor and #PublicHealth, a must-read briefing for local authorities on tobacco industry funding, and a roundup of the latest #CDoH news and resources. mailchi.mp/updates.bath...
Images of Nason Maani and Anna Gilmore presenting, and a group photo including Prof. Chris Whitty, Prof. Phil Taylor, and Prof. Anna Gilmore.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
God almighty, never in my life did I imagine something like this could happen—but RFK Jr’s MAHA movement keeps surprising us😢 Tobacco is the world’s number 1 cause of premature death & the tobacco industry is one of the most repulsive & cynical industries on earth www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/n...
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Former tobacco executive joins CDC senior leadership, raising concerns over industry influence
Naming a former Imperial Brands executive for a CDC job is the latest example, advocates say, of tobacco industry influence in Trump administration.
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Marco Zenone @marcozenone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New study 📝 We audited 5 AI chatbots to assess how they respond to health questions in misinformation-prone contexts. 49.6% of responses were rated problematic (e.g., suggesting alternative cancer clinics), with limited guardrails and many poor/fabricated citations. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@elliefichera.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social @carolinecerny.bsky.social @geoffbates.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/04/2026
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, R.F.K., Jr., said that he had taken peptides himself and that, under his leadership, the F.D.A. would stop restricting many of them. The future of the agency—and the health of consumers—is at stake, Dhruv Khullar writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/t59pRm
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Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?
Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake.
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PSA Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group @psalocalpol.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
And our final panel of the conference is 'Local politics and local state capacity' With papers from: @alfiegaffney.bsky.social Joanie Willett et al Lucas Borba @karremannancy.bsky.social et al Clare Maudling Chair: @peckersley.bsky.social 📆Wed 1st April, 1.30pm, St Catz Riverside Seminar Room A
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds www.the-independent.com/tech/tiktok-... "...52% of #ADHD -related videos and 41% of autism videos analysed on TikTok were inaccurate..."
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More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds
Researchers found that social media platforms are ‘awash’ with misleading or unsubstantiated mental health content
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our March newsletter is out! At #PreventionConference2026, Monika Kosinska from the @who.int called LHGP a trailblazer for translating commercial determinants of health into local action. This month: webinars on misinformation and active travel, new resources, and more. mailchi.mp/79219387372d...
(Left) Monika Kosinska with Prof. Anna Gilmore presenting at the Prevention 2026 Conference. (Right) Members of the LHGP team at the Prevention 2026 Conference.
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Cross-sector collaboration is increasing but how do you protect #research integrity? A new case study led by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social offers step-by-step guidance on designing and implementing conflicts of interest #COI policies for complex research consortiums.
New research; Developing guidance on assessing and managing conflicts of interest for a complex public health research consortium; Journal of research Management and Administration; PHI UK / Local Health and Global Profits
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Excited to be part of the Prevention Research Conference 2026 this week, joining global leaders in #CommercialDeterminantsofHealth, inc. @monikakosinska.bsky.social and Prof. Sharon Friel (Australian National University), and our very own Prof. Anna Gilmore (@uniofbath.bsky.social)
Prevention Research 2026
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Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Had a great time at #EPH2025 with this @lhgp.bsky.social team! So many great presentations to learn from across the spectrum of public health research 👏🏻
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Charlotte Head @charlierosehead.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Anyone at #EPH2025 in Helsinki, come to Hall B today at 11.45 for session 6.B to hear about @lhgp.bsky.social’s work on commercial determinants of health @karremannancy.bsky.social @georginawort.bsky.social
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Researchers from the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium will present work on local responses to commercial determinants of health at the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki, 11-14 November 2025. #EHP2025 👉 Read more: www.phiuk.org/news/local-h...
Headshots of Professors Anna Gilmore and Harry Rutter. Text says '!8th European Health Conference 2025, Let's connect at #EPH2025
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yep. Alarming rise in misinformation about women's health on social media, www.thestar.com/news/alarmin... via @thestar.com "Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills — misinformation and disinformation about women’s health are spreading..."
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Alarming rise in misinformation about women’s health on social media,
MONTRÉAL - Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills — misinformation and disinformation about women's health are spreading like wildfire on social media apps like ...
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Every year the average retired woman earns £7,600 less than the average retired man. The Gender Pension Gap sits at 36.5% - more than double the Gender Pay Gap! Call on public sector employers to do more, including making statutory parental leave pensionable, and sign here: bit.ly/3Vn1NS3
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End the Gender Pension Gap for public sector women
This will make a real difference to millions of women and shows what can be done when pension schemes take this issue seriously.  We are calling on all other public sector pension schemes- coveri...
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Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
An interesting policy debate: should you just give institutions money to do research, or make them bid? In think-tanks, two of the most effective outfits over the past twenty years have been Resolution Foundation and Centre for Cities - both with core funding www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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How to take over a government via PDFs
The long march of the Resolution Foundation
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
this thread was extraordinarily helpful and shaped my thinking on this. unrolled it for easier reading.
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Page by Colin Carlson | @colincarlson.bsky.social
I’ve spent two weeks thinking carefully about this, and I’m going to do my best to explain the theory of change for RFK’s removal, as I see it. That includes where impeachment fits, what to ask from H...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It’s never been about “the science.”
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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New episode of Money Power Health is now out! Thanks so much to @vickycann.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.bsky.social who joined me to discuss lobbying by forever chemicals or PFAS manufacturers at the EU level: t.co/DjCGXKyO7A @eupha.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social CDoH
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5R4v5zBIBaEBsboFyWfa40?si=U8rIt4vsT6yLe9fKzwlYsQ
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Triangulating from “trans women are women” to appease transphobes until you land at the exciting new position: “no women are women.”
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
taking the opportunity to shamelessly promoting my research on corporate power and UPFs off the back of @theguardian.com's investigative work we need to start thinking about industry strategies in terms of a wider political economy of delay www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...
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Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals
US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say
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Nancy Karreman @karremannancy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Reading this brilliant article from @maizie333.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al today. Hard to think of a bigger contradiction than selling guns and calling your PR exercise/educational program “lifesaving” 🤢 #CDOH #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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“Stop, don’t touch, run away!”: reconceptualizing firearm industry-funded youth education programs as corporate political activity - Globalization and Health
Background Injuries represent a major threat to child health globally. In the US, firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. Despite limited evidence of their effe...
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Jean Adams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @jeanmadams.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities. Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May. Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
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Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) in the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
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