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Leah Shipton, MPH, PhD

@leahshipton.bsky.social
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Term Assistant Professor at SFU School of Public Policy | Political scientist studying global health governance and health policy | www.leahshipton.com

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
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Leah Shipton, MPH, PhD @leahshipton.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Happy to see our commentary out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org !
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Maxwell Smith, PhD @maxwellsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Measles cases in Ontario, by year: 2013: 15 2014: 22 2015: 20 2016: 7 2017: 7 2018: 8 2019: 14 2020: 0 2021: 0 2022: 1 2023: 7 2024: 64 2025: 804 And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years *combined*. From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
The image is a graph showing Number of Measles Cases and Incidence Rate per Million Population in Ontario from January 1, 2013 – April 9, 2025, showing a significant spike in 2025.
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 03/04/2025
Alberta's expanded use of private surgical facilities isn't an attempt to support a struggling public system, argues academic Andrew Longhurst in Parkland's new report "Operation Profit." It's a deliberate and ideologically-motivated attempt to cannibalize it www.theprogressreport.ca/operation-pr...
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Operation Profit report argues Alberta’s surgery privatization initiative is starving the public system to prove an ideological point
An interview with Andrew Longhurst about his report into private surgical facilities, "Operation Profit."
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Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
So much punching down today. The highest tariffs imposed today were on Lesotho, a tiny mountainous African country whose primary wage industry is making clothes for Levi, Gap, Walmart and other brands. I’ve spent a lot of time in those factories, and let me tell you…
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Ben Verboom @verboom.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The US cuts off funding to GAVI, which provides a huge proportion of the vaccines needed by low-income countries, and to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, which (among many things) works to prevent spillover of dangerous pathogens from animals to humans. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Serious conflict of interest - obesity head at Novo Nordisk Fdn is a paid advisor to chocolate firm - & he has called into question the widely accepted classification system on ultraprocessed foods. Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$ www.ft.com/content/4f36...
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Novo Nordisk foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero
Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Time to ACT UP (or pick your alternative), but the status quo of sporadic and small protests isn't going to move the needle. We need a united democratic front--mobilizing far more people--to beat this Administration. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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We Need to Turn Our Outrage Way Up
This is no time to sit idly by. People’s lives are at stake. We have to put our bodies on the line.
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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review: 1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence) 2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.
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Leah Shipton, MPH, PhD @leahshipton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yes! I'm working on a case study of medical oxygen governance during covid & engineers were crucial to navigating the learning curve. Also shows that the pandemic treaty must recognize the breadth of health professionals needed for pandemic PPR, as colleagues & I speak to here: tinyurl.com/5n7prych
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The health and care workforce in the Pandemic Agreement: championing equity and protecting collective capacity for future pandemics
COVID-19 has highlighted, unequivocally, the need for strengthened health and care workforce policies and systems globally. As Member States negotiate a new WHO Pandemic Agreement to ensure improved c...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Global Health starter pack! Join and suggest others!! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD
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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/11/2024
A starting line up of global health folks who work across law, policy and ethics. There are many others to add - please share widely and suggest additions! go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1
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