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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD

@thewrittenro.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice, UCL Scholar activist Communities Global Mental Health Director UCL centre for Global NCDs and Mental Health

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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0
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Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.
Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.
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UCL Health of the Public @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
For the first time in its six-season history, Public Health Disrupted was recorded in front of a live audience as part of of #UCL200! @thewrittenro.bsky.social and @xandvt.bsky.social were joined by historian Dr Cristiano Turbil for a fascinating conversation about the history of public health.
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
VERY EXCITED to be doing our first live podcast with @xandvt.bsky.social - after six years !! Hope you can join us - tickets will be selling fast !
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Only 7% of the world lives in spaces with open civic spaces. Activism remains the only way to build a world where health for all is actually possible. So, today we announced a new @thelancet.com commission on Activism & health - read more below www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Imagining otherwise for better health: a Lancet Commission on activism and health
The political thinker Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) is often inaccurately attributed with the phrase “The old is not yet dead, and the new is waiting to be born; now is the time of monsters.”1 Regardles...
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The return from maternity leave is slower the second time around. How is it 2026 already!
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UCL Health of the Public @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🎙️ “The point of public health is to create a place where people can live life in their fullest extent…” @admbriggs.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social In our latest episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we are reminded that public health is about enabling life, not restricting it.
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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our event is today - a research symposium exploring Indigenous people's health and wellbeing in the context of anthropogenic climate change, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk
A screenshot of a PowerPoint slide that reads 'exploring Iindigenous health and wellbeing in the context of climate change' and features a drawing by Indigenous artist Elisapee Ishulutaq. "In her oil stick drawing Climate Change (2012) Ishulutaq depicted a lone Inuk in a parka, an igloo and a tree on either side. The figure faces the tree, which has begun to bloom despite being rooted in a patch of icy ground [1]. Behind them is a melting igloo, which seems to slump towards the figure, the impact of the heat warping its shape into an uncomfortable bend." https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/Elisapee-Ishulutaq
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Prof Alexandra Pitman @alexandrapitman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We're looking for UK men aged 40-65 to give us some paid feedback on a video featuring 2 men talking about experiences of #suicidal thoughts. We want to know if it will be helpful for other men, even if they have never felt suicidal. Up to 1 hour of your time to help in our #suicideprevention work.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up. Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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The definition of madness
Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025
While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.
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Myles Away 🖕🇺🇸🖕 @real-myles-away.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The hijacking of the press conferences by right wing propagandists, at the leaders debates, tells you all you need to know about electing Poilievre. He's already promised to limit access to legitimate news by defunding #CBC but is happy to answer Rebel Media questions. #Canada #cdnpoli #elxn45
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Come see me !
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
308 lives ended in one night. #Gaza
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This kind of violence is sickening. The purposeful act of not seeing. It is vile. Designed to make us feel insane. We are not insane. They got one thing right - it’s not war. It’s genocide. Israel is committing genocide.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Gavi @gavi.org · 14/03/2025
Despite early concerns, research shows most “pandemic babies” are developing normally. What does this teach us about childhood resilience and the importance of support systems during global #crises?
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'Pandemic babies' turn 5: Here’s what research tells us about their development and remarkable resilience
Our research has found that most pandemic-born children have been remarkably resilient to the disruptions caused by COVID.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Want to support civilian-led mutual aid networks in Sudan AND learn from and with amazing organizers, poets, scholars and artists? Sign up for our Workshops4Sudan at sudansolidarity.com. The line up includes Ruthie Gilmore, @williamcson.bsky.social @raniawrites.bsky.social, Safia El Hillo…(1/2)
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Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’m creeping out from maternity leave, and really fighting the urge to creep back in.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/02/2025
Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.
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Sarah Dalglish @sarahdlish.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Roses are red, RFK was confirmed, Instead of setting policy He should be dewormed 🪱 #HealthPolicyValentines
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What I would like to see, are all the countries that trump is bullying build a collective that excludes him entirely. because that is what he is. A bully. We have over relied on the US for too many things for too long.
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Telegraph has now published not one but *three* separate corrections of its repeated false claims about "illegal immigrants in London". The latest one is of Lord Frost's bizarre and ignorant rant here: archive.ph/HBZLF
February 5, 2025

In an article “We have no clue how many people live in Britain - and Starmer doesn’t care” (Jan,23) it was stated that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant. The figure is up to one in 13 in the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone , which does not cover the whole of London. We are happy to correct the record.

February 4, 2025

In an article “Enough learnt helplessness. Here’s how Britain ends illegal immigration” (Jan, 24) it was stated that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant. The figure is up to one in 13 in the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone, which does not cover the whole of London. We are happy to correct the record.

January 31, 2025

In an online article “Up to one in 12 in London is an illegal migrant” (Jan, 22), the figure of 7,044,667 was the estimated population of the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone, excluding irregular migrants, not geographical London which is about 9 million. “Up to 1 in 12 illegal migrants” was incorrect and ought to have been “up to 1 in 13”, based on the study’s upper figure for irregular migrants, which includes children born in the UK with irregular status and, it is understood, those with indefinite leave to remain. We are happy to correct the record.
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The academy is full of people who think you must be hard, to be critical. A mentor, Suman Fernando passed away recently, and with him an era of kind, gentle deeply thoughtful scholar activism. I am honoured to have known him. If you are a race or mental health scholar his work is essential.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Update. The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects. However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
not to brag but my teaching slides for international economic law are 🔥🔥🔥
An image of a lecture slide with a meme that says - the two most stolen items in the world: surplus value of workers labour (next to an image of a ballpoint pen) and indigenous land (next to an image of a lighter)
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Home for the holidays. ❤️New life goal: be invited back to do the Alchemy lecture. And meet Christina Sharpe.
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
May 2025 bring the end of empire. The end of genocide. A free Palestine.
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Themrise Khan @themrise.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My conversation with TDR #Globalhealthmatters on all things #developmentaid #powerdynamics and #inequalities and of course, our book on #whitesaviourism in #internationaldevelopment. Its more than just #globalhealth :-) @madhupai.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social tdr.who.int/global-healt...
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Dialogues: A conversation with Peter Hotez
In this episode of Dialogues, host Garry Aslanyan speaks with Themrise Khan, a Pakistani independent development professional and researcher with almost 30 years of experience in international develop...
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’m in good company now @seyeabimbola.bsky.social
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Amrish Baidjoe @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
mahmoud almadhoun, a palestinian chef who ran a soup kitchen in gaza, was murdered yesterday by an israeli drone.
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Palestinian chef behind Gaza Soup Kitchen slain in Israeli strike
Palestinian chef Mahmoud Almadhoun was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on Saturday, his brother announced on social media as Palestinian restaurants in the United States paid tribute to the belove...
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hey bluesky 🦋 Can you do us a favour? Can you please keep resharing? Our NHS is too precious to be vandalised and sold off 💙 go.bsky.app/QSu8Fdi
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
When I think of how horribly the state has treated the windrush generation, I am incandescent with rage. That comes across in this paper I am sure. I won’t stop till justice is realised. we move. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The ties that bind: Understanding the mental health consequences of the Windrush Scandal and hostile immigration policies on survivors in the UK
The Home Office Windrush Scandal of 2018 has had major implications for the wellbeing of survivors and is thought to have affected more than 15,000 in…
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
reviewer 2 told me to be humble today and I have now decided that I will never be humble again.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Petro #COP29 seems a joke but here’s a serious Africa climate & health analysis by Tolu Oni & co examining how decolonisation, democratisation & decarbonisation are linked www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Palestinian struggle for liberation will never be a “single issue.”
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
A quite amazing crew of epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, other public health and clinical experts assembled during COVID to fight back against bad policy and misinformation starting in 2020. Well, we're putting the band back together.
Jim Belushi and Dan Ackroyd from Blue Brothers: We're putting the band back together.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
We will not target military sites say The Wicked we will kill thousands And we will expel people; All the people. And when others follow rules of war and hit our military bases, in revenge for our killing We will unleash a hell on the world Like you never saw.
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,050,734! ❤️❤️❤️
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,050,734, Rochelle A. Burgess PhD ‪@thewrittenro.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 18, 2023"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Netanyahu seems prepared to destroy anything and anyone to preserve his political career and avoid prosecution. He does not act in Israel's interests, only in his own.
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
My Kufiya arrived from Palestine today. An honour to explain to my son the significance of the scarf, and the importance of resistance and hope. Made by Hirbawi, the last factory in Palestine producing the garment, this weave and colour honours olive tree farmers. Read more: kufiya.org/our-mission/
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Rochelle A. Burgess PhD @thewrittenro.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
I have not advertised the publication my book, because more important things are happening. But if I had to pick one accomplishment for 2023 it’s this. I hope the world finds some use for it. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... Also: Free Palestine, and Ceasefire now.
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