Plastics can affect health across the life cycle - first keynote of the day with Prof Joacim Rocklöv on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics #ISEE2026

🚨 Plenary 2 | #ECSS2026 Climate risks are unprecedented and sport is affected. Dr Kim van Daalen & Prof. Paquito Bernard discuss impacts on health, activity and behaviour change. 📅 09 Jul | 11:30–12:45 CEST 🔗 Visit bit.ly/3OEPxMC #WeAreSportScience

✨️ 📣 New Publication 📄 in @lancetgh.bsky.social Methods with Consequences: how to evaluate diversity in global health without methodologies compounding injustice. Thank-you @daalenkim.bsky.social & @dadasara.bsky.social for leading this effort. ➡️ Full Text: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Methods with consequences: analysing demographic diversity in global health governance and knowledge production

Structural inequities remain deeply embedded in global health governance and knowledge production, shaping which voices are heard and whose expertise and priorities are valued. Attempts to understand ...

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New 📰 in @lancetgh.bsky.social ✨ Structural inequities remain deeply embedded in global health governance and knowledge production We examine how diversity is measured in global health when demographic data are unavailable, & their ethical implications. More ⤵️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thrilled to share 2 book chapters co-authored in Global Health, Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases 🌍🦟📘 We explore how climate change is reshaping infectious disease risks globally, and the role of sex & gender in vulnerability and adaptation Read the chapters ⬇️

🌍Last month Lancet Countdown Europe participated in the Biomedical Campus Family Day in Cambridge with 1,000+ attendees @daalenkim.bsky.social led interactive activities exploring environment & health nexus: 🕵 Climate and Health Detective Matching Game 💧 “Safe or Not Safe?” Water Sorting Game

📰✨ In our new @thelancet.com Planetary Health paper, we discuss the importance of disentangling the different dimensions of urban heat vulnerability🥵 (exposure, susceptibility, and adaptive capacity) for effective and equitable adaptation👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #ClimateChange #HeatRisk

[NEW Pub✨] The 43 indicators in the new 2026 Lancet Countdown Europe report show that Europe is heating up and it’s increasingly impacting our health. 🥵🩺 Whilst there is progress in climate action, it’s not happening fast enough. Read in full ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍🌿 How does our environment shape long-term health? Join us at the Cambridge Festival to explore how air pollution, climate change, and heatwaves are impacting chronic disease. 📅 Monday 23 March, 18:00–19:30 📍 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge 🎟️ Free: tinyurl.com/5dfmb9rf

✨New✨ Our study highlights a key tension: as global climate diplomacy grows, so does the carbon footprint of bringing people together to negotiate action. How can climate governance remain effective & inclusive while reducing the footprint of the processes supporting it? 🔗 shorturl.at/NKXy9

A chance to learn from wonderful colleagues from across the world! www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

✨NEW✨ How does climate change affect sleep, and why does it matter? In our Nature Sustainability Comment, we discuss new research showing that rising temperatures may increase global sleep loss, with potential broader societal implications 🌍💤🌡️ 📰https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01778-y

New from #RSOS: Ethical considerations related to #drone use for environment and health research: a scoping review. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @remyhs.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social @msantosvega.bsky.social @gabc91.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social

Seven countries are losing all U.S. humanitarian aid: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. these projects are being canceled because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives

The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

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As drone research expands across climate science, epidemiology, and global health, the conversation must move beyond “Can we fly?” to “Should we fly, and how do we do so responsibly?” ⚖️ 📖 🔗Read our new study, led by Dr Hoek Spaans, exploring these ethical challenges: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Used a John Snow reference in class today. Today’s undergrads do not know Game of Thrones. Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.🧓

New Pub!✨👀 After screening 266,669 📰, we synthesised *all* evidence on diversity in academic global health. 📊 226 studies on editorial boards + 603 on authorship → representation remains limited. The evidence is (& has been) clear - it’s time for structural reform.🔥 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ymjtucz8

🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hannah Klauber as Co-Lead of our Economics & Finance Working Group! Joining from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, she brings her expertise to strengthen indicators, connect researchers, and shape climate-health action. 🌍 #Leadership #ClimateChange #HealthEconomics

🌍🌱 New for young readers (8–15): How climate change affects health, and how climate action helps! Our new Frontiers for Young Minds article turns @countdowneurope.bsky.social findings into clear, hopeful insights. 🔗 Read: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... 📊 Infographics: shorturl.at/wmt0X

New workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance - Climatic Change

For over 30 years, detection and attribution (D&A) studies have informed key conclusions in international and national assessments of climate science, providing compelling evidence for the reality and...

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Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change

The impacts of climate change on human and wildlife health remain poorly understood. Carlson and colleagues develop a new method for reconstructing these impacts, and show that since 1950, environmen....

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A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of bubonic plague, local health officials say.

🗣️NEW SPEAKER! @profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

🚨 Our new study of 147,979 pregnancies 🤰🏻 across 9 Chinese provinces finds that combined PM₂.₅ and ozone exposure increases low birth weight risk - with critical exposure windows from preconception to the second trimester. 📄 Led by Haitong Zhe Sun, read full: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Millions of people worldwide 🌍 are chronically exposed to environmental arsenic. In this new📄, we explore whether associations between environmental arsenic & risk of adverse cardiometabolic 🫀 outcomes change in the presence of common genetic 🧬 variations. ⬇️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Climate change 🌎 poses a growing threat to workers' health, through direct exposure to environmental hazards and indirect exacerbation of social & health inequalities. Our new 📰 discusses research gaps in occupational health in the era of climate change ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yesterday @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!

190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course! You can still apply! www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

Shocking that UK government plans to boost defence spending by cutting aid. To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid

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International Development Committee

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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social #cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors

Està preparada Catalunya per afrontar les malalties que vindran❓ 🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment 🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara ➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu #dengue #mosquits #virus