In a new paper, Prof. Ashley Hagaman & PhD student Raquel Burgess provide specific recommendations to better protect the mental health of research teams, especially those who are often exposed to distressing and traumatic information. ysph.yale.edu/news-article/y…

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Yvon Chouinard, who founded the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia and became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given away the company. All Patagonia’s profits will now be used to fight climate change.🧵 nytimes.com/2022/09/14/cli…

📣 Fellow public health researchers!! 📣 What are you doing to ensure the psychological well-being of your research staff? Especially those who have daily conversations about illness/death, experience vicarious trauma from interviews, and face barriers to career advancement?

Raquel Burgess et al. draw attention to the need for #psychosocial training and support for #research staff 👨‍💻bit.ly/3Skfa1N

Was honoured to speak with the inspiring Eddy Oketch for this piece. Looking forward to seeing the positive change he creates in Kenya through his election as Senator of Migori County and his work with the Treeco Fund, an initiative to combat poverty and climate change.

José Aravena Castro, a doctoral student at YSPH, is studying issues related to Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss among members of an indigenous community in Chile. Read more in the latest edition of our Focus publication on rethinking ageism: m.yale.edu/bsrj

I'm delighted to announce our call for papers @healthpromint for our Special Issue on the Commercial Determinants of Health. We are keen to publish articles and advance discussions that will broaden our understanding of the CDoH. More details here ⬇️⬇️ academic.oup.com/heapro/pages/t…

Happy to share this new pub after a great learning experience supporting this collaborative data sharing work between Ontario's medical schools and the MCC. We looked at associations between education data and performance on the MCCQE1 across and within institutions.

The Commercial Determinants of Non-Communicable Diseases: The World Health Organization (WHO) says corporate greed is causing millions of preventable deaths, by @DanyaalRaza who.int/europe/news/it… canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/06/20/the… via Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @nicktsergas #sdoh

Great to see this new report from WHO Europe, which takes a strong stand against industry actions that contribute to the NCD burden. The authors use GBD data to link 2.7M EU deaths to 4 industries (tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels, ultra-processed foods) and commercial practices.

A colleague of mine (Augustine Okoh) is seeking to recruit Ontario-based family physicians to be interviewed for a research study on patient transitions to long term care. If interested, please contact [email protected].

For your interest: The Public Health Association of BC is holding a conference on the commercial determinants of health in November in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦🗻 Partners include the WHO and the National Collaborating Center for Determinants of Health

#PHABCCon24 attendees -- I will present how the HEALTH-CORP model can inform public health policy and practice in BC at 2:55 pm on Monday in Château Belair. Come check it out if you are interested! Looking forward to meeting you all next week. 🙂 PHABC