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/...

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...

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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Bang on.

Prof Jim McManus, OCDS, D.Sc,FFPH,FBPsS,@jimmcmanusph.bsky.social · 3w ago

We know more about prevention than ever before. So why do prevention efforts still fail? open.substack.com/pub/jimmcman... #PublicHealth #Prevention #SystemsThinking #HealthEquity

‼️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 · 3w ago

NEW: 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...

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

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

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

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Co‑production — why it matters, where it fails, and what reality demands

Ground Rules for Transdisciplinary Public Health

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Some excellent recent papers in Perspectives in Public Health — great examples of public health happening in real lives, workplaces and communities. A short thread 🧵👇 journals.sagepub.com/toc/RSH/0/0 @rsph.bsky.social @journals.sagepub.com

Perspectives in Public Health - Volume 0, Number 0

Table of contents for Perspectives in Public Health, 0, 0

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10 Key messages on #OlderPeople health by @gerisoc.bsky.social - essential reading for policy-makers & commissioners - modern service framework #frailty & #EndofLifeCare #palliative 1. Number of people 85 years and older is expected to double by 2047 (1.7m increasing to 3.3m) www.bgs.org.uk/keymsgs

BGS key messages: Older people's healthcare | British Geriatrics Society

BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare. We encourage discussion o...

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In the latest reflection on transdisciplinary #publichealth I look at parity of esteem across disciplines, and why we need a proper pluralism in methodological approaches. jimmcmanuswrites.substack.com/p/parity-of-...

Parity of Esteem in Transdisciplinary Public Health

Groundrules for Transdiciplinary Public Health

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How concerned should we be about the challenge to public trust in health and science expertise? And what can be done about it? Our Director of Communications and External Affairs, @leonoramerry.bsky.social, explores in this week's blog. 👇 buff.ly/SDRKHpg

Food for thought: addressing misinformation and polarised views in health care

Reflecting on a session from last week’s Nuffield Trust Summit on misinformation and polarised views about health, Leonora Merry discusses the growing gap between experts, institutions and the public…

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Public Health Wales’ new Help Me Quit (HMQ) mobile app, provides an additional route for people who want to quit with flexible, digital support, including those who may not want to use traditional stop smoking services. free, bilingual, 24/7 www.helpmequit.wales/download-the...

Link to Donella Meadows free book on systems mentioned by Cecile Knao in her keynote #BSPHN26 virtualmmx.ddns.net/gbooks/Thinkin…

BSPHN conference off to a flying start #BSPHN26 cdn.prod.website-files.com/63236652b830...

I gave a talk recently about transdisciplinary #publichealth with proposed ground rules like intellectual humility and parity of esteem across disciplines. I was encouraged to write it up for reflection. Link here open.substack.com/pub/jimmcman...

The Groundrules for Transdisciplinary Public Health

intellectual humility and esteem for all disciplines

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