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Dr Lucinda Hiam

@lucindahiam.bsky.social
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2025-26 Harkness Fellow @Brown School of Public Health and Boston College | GP and global public health doctor | Clarendon Scholar @UniofOxford | Commissioner on the @BMJ Future of the NHS | Member @RCGP | Honorary Member @FPH.

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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My latest @bmj.com Opinion argues we need to extend trusted clinical voices into today's digital information ecosystem, learning from creators who already know how to engage online. www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Trust in doctors and nurses remains high, but patients are still turning elsewhere
The health information crisis isn’t that patients have stopped trusting healthcare workers—it’s that trusted clinical voices are often absent from the places patients look for answers Before generati...
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
1/2 For the first time in more than a decade, the UK could be led by someone who can offer a vision of a healthier, wealthier future grounded in evidence and operational experience. @lucindahiam.bsky.social & I explain why @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Andy Burnham could apply lessons from Manchester to create a healthier Britain with a stronger economy
For the first time in more than a decade, the UK could be led by someone who can offer a vision of a healthier, wealthier future grounded in evidence and operational experience, write Martin McKee and...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
📄 My latest @bmj.com column: Fear as policy: the health harms of immigration enforcement 🇺🇸 I have been trying to write this column about ICE for months. Each time I started, the words felt too small, too inadequate for the horror of what is happening. 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/393/... 🧵 1/4
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📉 Lots of discussion on @healthfoundation.bsky.social dn.bsky.social’s analysis of the latest UK healthy life expectancy figures. In our @bmj.com opinion, @martinmckee.bsky.social and I argue a key part of the story is still missing: austerity. �� www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s9s923 🧵
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📄 My latest @bmj.com: asking big questions about health while dismantling the research needed to answer them reveals a profound contradiction at the heart of US policy. Research cuts don’t save money. They erode evidence, weaken policy, and economic losses. 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We’ve ( @lucindahiam.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social ) been pointing out for years that 🇬🇧 has a health crisis. e.g. we showed how we tumbled down the global rankings throughout the reign of the late Queen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
📖 Things Fall Apart: The British Health Crisis, 2010–2020 🎓 Delighted to share that I passed my @ox.ac.uk DPhil viva yesterday with no corrections. 🌏 Thanks to @oxfordgeography.bsky.social & @kelloggoxford.bsky.social and generous support from a Clarendon Scholarship
Picture of me holding my thesis is academic wear by the Kellogg College sign
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Information Futures Lab @infofutureslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We are excited to announce the 2026 Information Futures Lab Fellows and welcome six leaders who are working to improve journalism, public health communication and the civic information infrastructure. sph.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
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Information Futures Lab welcomes 2026 visiting fellows
The Information Futures Lab at Brown University has announced its 2026 visiting fellows, a group of interdisciplinary leaders dedicated to addressing the global information crisis and building healthi...
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🇺🇸 Have you seen a US health policy move forward even when political views were deeply polarized? My colleague @lucindahiam.bsky.social is collecting examples of how people come together to advance health policy in divided environments. 🔗Share examples here: forms.gle/tXR6MGby4fee...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🇺🇸 Have you seen a US health policy move forward even when political views were deeply polarized? We're collecting examples as part of my Harkness Fellowship project on how people come together to advance health policy in divided environments. 🔗Share examples here: forms.gle/tXR6MGby4fee...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
❓What happens when mistrust of science moves from the fringe to the centre of health policy? 📄 In a new @bmj.com Opinion, I write about the Children’s Health Defense conference in Texas and what it reveals about mistrust, polarisation, and the limits of evidence in public health. 🧵
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
📄 New paper out in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine with @robaldridge.bsky.social, Rachel Burns, and analysis led by @jonminton.bsky.social ❓How does mortality compare by country/region of birth in England & Wales, 2007–2021? doi.org/10.1177/0141... 🧵⬇️
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“Is anyone here carrying a gun?” In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected? www.bmj.com/content/391/... Thanks to @billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
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US gun violence is a preventable health crisis
America feels familiar to a British person—until it doesn’t. Lucinda Hiam writes from the US, observing that nothing has felt more foreign than living in a country where the threat of gun violence is ...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Amid the US shutdown, my latest @bmj.com column asks why the world’s most expensive health system still fails to deliver fair, universal care. 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Waiting for America’s healthcare revolution
Writing from the US amid a government shutdown, Lucinda Hiam asks why the world’s most expensive health system still fails to deliver fair and universal access to care The Trump administration’s unpr...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 05/09/2025
"The CDC shooting serves as a tragic reminder that political polarisation has become a public health emergency." @lucindahiam.bsky.social writes the first piece of her year in the US, discussing political polarisation as an overlooked determinant of health www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🇬🇧 Are migrants in the UK living longer lives but in worse health? Work with the brilliant @mjwdemography.bsky.social exploring the immigrant morbidity–mortality paradox 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 Deadline: 1 August @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social
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Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
⚖️ Can a digital NHS be equitable? In our @bmj.com editorial @jessrmorley.bsky.social @eleanorbarry.bsky.social & I argue that while AI in healthcare promises transformation, it rests on three flawed assumptions that risk worsening inequalities 👇 www.bmj.com/content/389/... (1/5)
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Can a digital NHS be equitable?
Infrastructure and inclusion are key to the rollout of AI Crisis aversion for the NHS lies in the greater use of technology, according to the UK government. This includes greater use of AI, to shift ...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 25/03/2025
The chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves has outlined plans to cut several billion from the UK's welfare budget. Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our @bmj.com editorial ahead of the #SpringStatement ❌ There’s no evidence that cutting social security boosts economic activity—it’s neither "moral" nor effective. ✅ Gains come from investing in health. 💡 Solving the austerity-fuelled health crisis needs political will & strong public services.
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Trisha Elliott @trishaelliott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Health is a key driver for economic growth. It baffles me that the UK government are ignoring the advice of public health experts & going down the track of further austerity. A @bmj.com editorial by @lucindahiam.bsky.social, @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & David Walsh. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢 Austerity is a public health emergency Cuts to welfare & public services have worsened health, driving rising mid-life mortality & health inequalities. Yet, more cuts are coming. With @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & David Walsh in @bmj.com we call for the health community to speak out 1/2
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Honoured to be elected to Honorary Membership of the Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social @profkevinfenton.bsky.social Thank you @martinmckee.bsky.social & @robaldridge.bsky.social for the support, & the FPH board for the award. Looking forward to contributing further to public health.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
1/9 🧵Pleased to have played a small part in this new @thelancetph.bsky.social paper showing just how bad UK life expectancy has been doing since 2010 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
The countries that best maintained improvements in life expectancy after 2011 (Norway, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden) did so through better maintenance of reductions in mortality from cardiova...
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Suicide rates have long been recognised as an indicator of how societies are faring . Rates in E&W now at highest for 20 years. But as @lucindahiam.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social & I show, the overall figures conceal stark regional inequalities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Changing suicide trends: A shift in regional disparities across the UK
In 2023, suicide rates in England & Wales reached their highest levels since 1999. Despite changes in legal definitions and registration methods impac…
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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
Is the UK public ready for radical change to improve health? A series of citizens assemblies on priorities for action beyond the NHS on health could help provide an answer. With @rebeccamckee.bsky.social & Bob Klaber in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/386/...
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Citizens’ assemblies, health, and health policy
Assemblies can help provide a mandate for bold government action on health The UK’s Labour government inherited a health service with waiting list times at a record high and public satisfaction at a ...
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Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
📣New from me, @lucindahiam.bsky.social and Bob Klaber in the BMJ on how citizens' assemblies can help provide a mandate for much needed bold government action on health I've got some free access copies, so shout if you'd like one! 👇 www.bmj.com/content/386/...
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Citizens’ assemblies, health, and health policy
Assemblies can help provide a mandate for bold government action on health The UK’s Labour government inherited a health service with waiting list times at a record high and public satisfaction at a ...
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