🚬SA’s #Tobacco Bill wants to treat #vapes like all other tobacco products to prevent young people from taking a puff. But will it work to stop people from picking up the habit? Find out more. bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

Please join us in this satellite session #hsr2024 - based on long term #hpsr collaborations at county/provincial level. Rich discussions about systems for health! ⁦Alliance for HPSR⁩ ⁦⁦KEMRI-Wellcome Trust⁩ ⁦UCT School of Public Health⁩ ⁦⁦SOPH UWC⁩

Protecting children, families and vulnerable from tobacco harms gov.uk/government/spe…

⁦Dr. Aurore Nishimwe⁩ gives back to back presentations on the unique bespoke ambulance communication software developed for Rwanda. Lots of interest in Rwanda Jenkins⁦Rwanda912 RIGHT⁩! ⁦NIHR Global Health⁩ ⁦Jean Claude BYIRINGIRO⁩ ⁦Rob Rickard⁩ ⁦Sudha Jayaraman MD MSc FACS⁩

🔔NEW at Health Promotion International "Commercial factors influence vaping uptake, reinforcing marketing activities, widespread supply of products and positive social norms and acceptability of vaping among young people" OA doi.org/10.1093/heapro… Christina Watts Bronwyn McGill

I was privileged to present the progress of our Rwanda912 RIGHT work “all around the unique bespoke ambulance communication system developed for Rwanda Biomedical Centre-SAMU”to 600+ brilliant audience #AFCEM2024. Looking forward to more achievements through our strong collaboration Ministry of Health | Rwanda

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

The only way out of the UK's entrenched crises is action on inequality. It was great to be in parliament today hosted by Liam Byrne MP and with experts Kate Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson to discuss the way inequality has changed over the last 15 years – and how we can escape it!

I'm grateful to the The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social for their event yesterday on the Spirit Level at 15. Kate Pickett and Richard G Wilkinson's book changed the debate around inequality, and their recent report is an important intervention ⬇️. equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/….

Hiking student fees & handing the money to vice-chancellors without preconditions is like "giving gasoline to an arsonist". Marketisation is destroying higher education. Jo Grady on Pod Save the UK 👇 Listen here 👉 go.crooked.com/PodSaveTheUK

Over 800 million people around the world live with #diabetes. Yet, not everyone has access to affordable treatment and the care they need. This #WorldDiabetesDay, World Health Organization (WHO) calls on all countries to invest in policies that support healthy diets, physical activity and, most

Get the facts about vaping Vapes can quickly become addictive for children and young people, affecting their mood, mental health and sleep. nhsinform.scot/vaping

The USA know because the ICJ have told them, that this is plausibly (screamingly so now) a genocide. There are international obligations on states. The United States has both a law that prohibits genocide and is a party to the Genocide Convention. And is not voting accordingly

Explanation of vulture funds in financialised economy by Prof Ron Labonte ⁦Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa⁩ and impact on health presenting ⁦Uni of Adelaide⁩

Yesterday @Equi_injury Rwanda team conducted a workshop in Musanze District with policymakers to identify priority barriers for quality injurycare. National Institute for Health and Care Research University of Global Health Equity University of Rwanda Justine Ina Davies Kathryn Chu Abebe Bekele, MD Jean Claude BYIRINGIRO Alemayehu Amberbir, PhD Derbew Fikadu Nzungize Lambert

New Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM paper! Umbrella review led by Alice Tompson with Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social May van Schalkwyk Greg Hartwell Muhammad Alkasaby Kate Dun-Campbell, Nason Maani Katherine Körner (she/her) on population-level interventions to address #CDoH WRT mental health in Health Promotion International (OUP) #CDoH: academic.oup.com/heapro/article…

Learning sites for health systems research: Reflections on five programs in Africa, Asia, and Central America - Witter - Learning Health Systems - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lr…

Book:  Health inequality monitoring -harnessing data to advance health equity who.int/data/inequalit…

NEW PAPER: Learning sites for health systems research: Reflections on five programs in Africa, Asia & Central America ReBUILD team & colleagues share insights on doing embedded #HPSR in learning sites - the pros & cons rebuildconsortium.com/resources/lear… Maria van der Merwe Lucia D'Ambruoso 💚

Pleased to announce that our newest article on the political economy analysis of CA mental health and well-being in Ethiopia is now published at Frontiers in Sociology. frontiersin.org/journals/socio…