Gorgeous writing, clear message and an invitation to all of us from Ian Marcus Colbin. A must read for everyone who cares about the current challenges. Timely and rich @yalepress.bsky.social
Prof Jim McManus, OCDS, D.Sc,FFPH,FBPsS,
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Posts mine 🏳️🌈 |National Director, PublicHealthWales |Visiting Prof Unis of Herts & Bangor| Chair www.prisonadvice.org.uk | Trustee St Joseph's Hospice |Theology, Uni Roehampton |Caritas CSAN Theological Ref Grp Member| https://linktr.ee/jimmcmanus
A major 2024 study used by some to argue that millions died from #covid #vaccines has been retracted by BMJ #PublicHealth “imbalanced, lacks rigour, and includes misinformation,” the BMJ stated www.scientificamerican.com/article/majo... bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/3/...
Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time
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People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.
The work of people living with #Diabetes Type 2 and our #PublicHealth #Wales Diabetes team is showcased today on ITV news. Together they produced a point of diagnosis pack, written by and with people with Diabetes. www.itv.com/news/wales/2... search: living well with type 2 diabetes Wales
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I try in my latest piece to provide a practical framework for preventive action, including tools learned from practice (and by that I means LOTS of failures, and a few successes!) #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking #ImplementationScience jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/a-practica...
A practical framework for planning, monitoring and sustaining preventive action
From architecture to stewardship: practical tools for designing prevention that lasts
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Prevention doesn't just produce outcomes. It produces trajectories. We should spend less time asking "Has the outcome happened yet?" and more time asking "Are we on the right trajectory?" New essay: jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/prevention... #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking
Prevention effort should not (just) produce outcomes. It should produce trajectories.
The biggest mistake in prevention can be looking for outcomes without looking for trajectories
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Arrived today. A mere 769 pages. Holiday read or not I wonder?
New Substack: From interventions to architecture. Prevention rarely fails because we lack evidence. It fails because interventions aren't designed to work across system layers and timescales jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/designing-... #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking #Implementation
Designing Prevention to succeed: beyond the 17 reasons for failure
A framework for thinking about prevention across layers and across time phases
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Starting your first job is a major life transition. Healthy Working Wales has launched Thriving at Work: A Young Person's Guide to help young people build confidence, understand workplace culture, protect their wellbeing and thrive. #PublicHealth #YoungPeople healthyworking.wales/app/uploads/...
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Prevention doesn't usually die in a dramatic policy failure. Its much more like a long defeat. My latest piece maps the remaining 9 of 17 reasons prevention fails—and the deeper pattern tying them together. jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/the-long-d... #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking
The Long Defeat: Seventeen Reasons Prevention Fails Continued...
Part Two: Why good prevention still loses momentum
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I'm pleased to see the launch of a new £1.4m Public Health Wales & WCVA Gambling Harms Voluntary Sector Grant Fund to support community-led prevention and early intervention. Applications open 31 Aug. #Prevention #PublicHealthWales #GamblingHarms phw.nhs.wales/2026/07/26/p...
Public Health Wales launches £1.4 million gambling harms prevention grants programme - Public Health Wales
Gambling-related harms can have a devastating impact on individuals, families and communities across Wales, affecting health, relationships, finances and wellbeing. Preventing these harms and supporti...
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MIllion minutes are looking for trustees. A great organisation and a fantastic opportunity millionminutes.org/vacancies
Vacancies — Million Minutes
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“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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So why does prevention still fail? Usually not because of evidence. More often because of complexity, misaligned systems, weak implementation, poor accountability and failure to think across time. My latest piece: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/jimmcman... #PublicHealth #Prevention
The Seventeen Reasons Prevention Fails
Part One: Why prevention fails before it even reaches delivery
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‼️https://www.local.gov.uk/topics/social-care-health-and-integration/school-nurses-backbone-neighbourhood-health-we-can-no‼️ @andyburnham.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social @lgawellbeing.bsky.social @jimmcmanusph.bsky.social
School nurses: the backbone of neighbourhood health we can no longer afford to ignore
England’s health and care system is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in a generation.
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We know more about prevention than ever before. So why do prevention efforts still fail? open.substack.com/pub/jimmcman... #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking #HealthEquity
Why Prevention Sometimes Fails
And how we create the conditions for success....
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This is very well worth a read👇 @tracyd-ph.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social @jimmcmanusph.bsky.social @ogden140.bsky.social @sebrees1.bsky.social @charliepickles.bsky.social @davidjbuck.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Ben Wealthy@benwealthy.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: UK Wellbeing Report 2026 Wellbeing is flatlining with the 2020s set to become a 'lost decade' for wellbeing. Andy Burnham's vision of 'good growth' should include growing wellbeing and spreading it more equally. Good policy, good politics. worldwellbeingmovement.org/uk-wellbeing...
#Publichealth problems aren't solo performances. They're symphonies. I explore symphonic thinking: a way of working with complexity that brings together multiple disciplines Read: jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/symphonic-... #Complexity #SystemsThinking #Leadership #PopulationHealth
Symphonic Thinking in Public Health
The Methodological Mindset we need for the Age of Complexity
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latest in my series of reflections on #leadership out. chapter in “Human Leadership”edited by amazing claudia megele & tanya moore. This in the Pastoral Review. chapter on programme management coming in next edition of Oxford Handbook of #PublicHealth practice. www.thetablet.co.uk/pastoral-rev...
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We are excited to announce our first #UKCO2026 Plenary Speaker: Prof. Jim McManus Obesity, Complexity, and Policy: Why We Keep Getting It Wrong — and What to Do Next 🔗 Register now for UKCO 2026: aso.org.uk/events/ukco-... 📢 Early bird deadline 30th June 2026 @jimmcmanusph.bsky.social
📣 Join our press conference, hosted by Africa CDC and WHO principals on the launch of the #Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Disease Continental Preparedness and Response Plan 📆 Friday 5 June 2026 at 14.00 CEST (GMT+2) Livestream via X, Facebook, LinkedIn & YouTube.
Mae diabetes math 2 yn cynyddu’n gynt na’r disgwyl yng Nghymru. Ond mae modd atal llawer o achosion. Cymerwch gamau syml heddiw i leihau eich risg 👇 🔗 icc.gig.cymru/gwybodaeth-e... Darllenwch fwy gan ein partneriaid yn y BBC ⬇️ 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert... #AtalDiabetes #IechydCyhoeddus #Cymru
Lleihau eich risg o ddiabetes math 2 - Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru
Mae gan un o bob pump o oedolion yng Nghymru ddiabetes neu ar y llwybr i ddatblygu’r cyflwr. Ond, yn aml, mae’n bosib atal diabetes math 2 - a'r cam cyntaf yw adnabod eich risg. Adnabod eich risg Mae'...
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Type 2 diabetes is rising faster than predicted in Wales. But many cases are preventable. Take simple steps today to protect your health 👇 🔗 phw.nhs.wales/knowledge-ar... Read more from our partners at @BBCNews ⬇️ 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #DiabetesPrevention #PublicHealth #Wales
Lower your risk of type 2 diabetes - Public Health Wales
One in five adults in Wales has diabetes or is on the path to it. But type 2 diabetes can often be prevented - and the first step is finding out your risk. Find out your risk It’s free and only takes ...
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Children & young people’s #mentalhealth isn’t a story about fragility or “too much screen time.” It’s a rational response to the world we’ve created: inequality, insecurity, disrupted lives, and rising pressure. #publichealth www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/children-and...
Children and young people’s mental health: a crisis shaped by the world around them - Centre for Mental Health
Emily van de Venter and Jim McManus argue that framing the mental health crisis as a social media problem risks obscuring the bigger picture.
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Joint call by Director-General @drtedros.who.int @icrc.org President and @msf.ca International President on the 10th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 2286 on health care in armed conflicts bit.ly/4tKznRn
