Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social (@thewrittenro) 's Twitter Profile
Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

@thewrittenro

Professor@UCL|Scholar activist|Communities|Global Mental Health|Deputy Director @UCL_NCD| Views own. Likes & R/T not endorsements. 🇨🇦🇯🇲 in 🇬🇧

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá (@seyeabimbola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for The Lancet. On what he's taught me RE responding to pushbacks. To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgement". James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice thelancet.com/journals/lance…

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for <a href="/TheLancet/">The Lancet</a>. On what he's taught me RE responding to pushbacks.

To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgement".

James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social (@thewrittenro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

David Lammy (@davidlammy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shame on you, Vladimir Putin. Russia alone vetoed the UK and Sierra Leone’s UN Security Council resolution to protect civilians in Sudan, condemning more Sudanese people to killing, rape and starvation in a brutal civil war.

Zee Joy (@indigenousmanc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let me chat to you about abolition. A young mother was having issues over the summer with young people riding on motorbikes near her home around her kids bed time. The kids weren’t sleeping / waking her up and it was causing all kinds of stress to her. She rang the police

Professor Ahmed Hankir (@ahmedhankir) 's Twitter Profile Photo

True story: I decide to take a taxi to work this morning (I usually walk). The Uber driver arrives & takes a look at me & says good morning in Arabic. I reply sabah el noor (good morning to you to Arabic). He said I look Lebanese & I said I am. He, his wife & his children arrived

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was instantaneously my deepest fear as the news of the ICC arrest warrants came in. It is noticeable that as of January, at every move at the int'l justice level, there has been an immediate intensification of lethal violence against the Palestinians in Gaza. This also

UCL Health of the Public (@uclhealthpublic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎧 As Parliament prepares to vote on assisted dying legislation tomorrow, listen to a previous episode of #PublicHealthDisrupted on dignity and decency in dying, with Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈, Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social , Libby Sallnow & Asfan Bhadelia. 🔗Click through for episode links ⬇️

Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovi2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is fantastic news. ‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients 👏 theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá (@seyeabimbola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow. When we look back at Trump’s impact on (global) health we’d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.