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New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…

Regime type and Data Manipulation: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Coming up just after 9am: liberty, equality, the original position and the veil of ignorance. It's A Theory of Justice, by John Rawls bbc.in/3WjSd0i BBC Radio 4

Fellow foreigners, please consider supporting relief efforts following the devastating quake in Turkey - or giving again. The needs are overwhelming. One great aid group is Support to Life, a local, trusted organization focused on underserved Hatay: supporttolife.org/donate/

🔥 Major new The Lancet Global Health paper out today! #NCD policy implementation from 2014-21 Examining implementation of 19 NCD policies endorsed by all WHO member states Open access here: thelancet.com/journals/langl… Top 5 messages 🧵... 1) Implementation progress stalled in 2021 at 47·8%

2) There is marked inter-regional variation, and some groups are making faster progress than others

3) The static global mean hides individual policy changes: 👍🏾 Many #tobacco policies 👍🏾 Child #junkfood marketing policies 👍🏾 Clinical guideline use 👎🏾 #PhysicalActivity campaigns 👎🏾 #Alcohol policies 👎🏾 Plans, surveys and targets

4) Changes in #consumption patterns diverged almost perfectly between High vs Lower income countries 🚬🍺🍔 Broadly - changes in sales were not associated with policy implementation

5) 23.7% of all variance in policy implementation is explained by #CorporateFinancialInfluence i.e. countries with the weakest protections against corporate financial influence were the least likely to implement NCD policies 🤑⚖️📉

Take-home messages: - Implementation should have increased following #covid (NCDs, tobacco, alcohol, junk foods etc are all risk factors) - But NCD policy implementation has stagnated - These policies are extremely cost effective and save lives - Urgent action is required

Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors Prof. Simon Wigley Pepita Barlow Hampus Holmer 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 And look out for an upcoming Lancet podcast episode where Simon and I unpack the paper

The US struggled against COVID, but not all US states struggled equally A 4-fold (!) difference exists btwn US states on deaths, even adjusted for age, key health conditions New The Lancet study explores differences & how we can do better in next crisis thelancet.com/journals/lance…

In this new The Lancet Global Health podcast Prof. Simon Wigley and I unpack our recent paper 📻 Listen free here: thelancet.com/in-conversatio…

Herkese sonsuz teşekkürler Hem arkadaşlarım hem de aynı zamanda meslektaşlarım olan Simon Johnson ve James Robinson ile beraber, 2024 Nobel Ekonomi Ödülü’ne layık görülmüş olmaktan son derece mutlu ve gururluyum. Aynı zamanda bu ödülün, ekonomik büyümenin anlaşılmasında

1/3 🧵 In my latest study in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law I find that autocracies were more likely to underreport COVID-19 deaths than democracies. In democracies, opposition and free media pressure frustrate attempts to hide bad news. Read more: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…

2/3 📊 The study assessed manipulation through excess vs. reported death ratios and statistical patterns in reported deaths, finding that lack of independent opposition and fair elections were strong predictors of deliberate underreporting during the pandemic.

3/3 🌍 Implications: Data manipulation hinders effective public health responses, obstructs international aid efforts, and skews cross-national studies. For accurate insights, alternative data estimation is recommended for autocracies. #HealthData #Governance

"The 2024 campaign has been unusual both in its intense focus on the health of the candidates and in its relative inattention to the health of the people" Great article on relationship btwn health and democracy from Dhruv Khullar in The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

“In science, there is no shame in being wrong. Scientists are wrong all the time. Aristotle was a pioneer in that he started not with a prior scheme, but sought, as dispassionately as he could, to explain what he saw.”theguardian.com/books/2014/oct…

Washington’s retreat on global health will make everyone less safe in the long run, argue Tom Bollyky and Yanzhong Huang. “Better health in the world’s poorest places means better health for other countries, too, including the United States.” fam.ag/4iHppea