For no reason other than a few people have found this site invaluable and highlighted it to us, here is a great site for working with quasi-experimental designs (example - event study): lost-stats.github.io/Model_Estima...

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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Ecological study uses Bradford Hill criteria and evidence from RCTs to make causal claim of impact of HPV vaccination on cervical cancer mortality risk: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

John Snow MD died #onthisday in 1858, whilst finalising his monograph 'On Chloroform'. We recommend: johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/work.php/id=... A fantastic biography by Snow's contemporary Benjamin Richardson - scroll for detail of Snow's final days (excerpt below). Thank you Peter Vinten-Johansen!

Thirty years on, research linking viral infections with Alzheimer’s is finally getting the attention it deserves

Thirty years on, our research linking viral infections with Alzheimer’s is finally getting the attention it deserves

It has taken decades for our theory that Alzheimer’s is triggered by viral infections to be taken seriously.

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Large language models (LLMs) can replicate human emotions like fear, sadness and anxiety, and be 'calmed down’ by a breathing exercise: published in @thelancet.com Digital Health Implications for future mental health research (human participants optional) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Writing is thinking OR Thinking is not only writing 🤔 The debate on the value of LLMs in scientific paper writing continues... www.nature.com/articles/s44... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

RAPID REACTION: LSHTM expert responds to WHO declaring outbreak of #Ebola in DRC & Uganda a public health emergency of international concern Daniela Manno discusses what's behind the outbreak, symptoms, and wider #PublicHealth risk More 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Celebrating Florence Nightingale's bicentenary #throwbacktuesday pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"Passengers will be ferried ashore....far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries" Epidemiology in practice and the importance of community buy-in. #Hantavirüs @who.int

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus@drtedros.who.int · 3mo ago

The hidden cost of conflict: Resurgence of falciparum malaria and new vector species in #Yemen #MapOfTheDay and editorial in JEGH link.springer.com/article/10.1... S Ebrahim and others

Looks like Dr John Snow has been posthumously elevated to fellowship(?) of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Professionals - sounds good to us! - read his 'interview' here:

Dr John Snow - CIEH

John Snow was a famous English physician considered to be one of the founders of public health.

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Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social for highlighting some fantastic reproductions of Dr John Snow's iconic map of cholera spread (+ our own tongue in cheek homage to maps/arcade gaming), all submitted to our 2023 #map #competition. Check out the winners here: johnsnowsociety.org/2023/10/20/w...

Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 🎂Mar 16, 1813 John Snow born in Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧 1854: His dot map of deaths in Soho leads (eventually) to discovery of the water-borne source of a cholera epidemic. I celebrate his birthday with a couple of my favorite Snow Map re-creations

#datavis @anychart.com, on their Data Viz Weekly caught my eye with this lovely depiction of Gender views in Europe by Teresa Talò The pattern is so clear, color scale nicely muted. I wondered what spatial analysis could do here to show something of an overlaid visual summary. Arrows? contours?

New paper out in @thelancet.com: The Human Consequences of Epic Fury. "The health crisis in Iran and across the Middle East is “escalating rapidly"”

Offline: The human consequences of Epic Fury

The health crisis in Iran and across the Middle East is “escalating rapidly”, reported Hanan Balkhy, WHO's Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. She was speaking at a WHO press conference…

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We're continuing to celebrate Dr John Snow's birthday! Can you do better than other members of the public in the CIEH John Snow quiz? 🧐🎓⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6sD... #HappyBirthdayDrSnow

🎁 Sterling silver 'pumphandle' earrings to commemorate John Snow's meticulous research on cholera spread via a contaminated water system in Soho, London in 1854. Available to society members 👇 johnsnowsociety.org/join-us/#Memo #HappyBirthdayDrSnow

Today we're celebrating the Birthday of (the man, the myth, etc) Dr John Snow MD! This year's artwork is more than (just) stream of consciousness musings of a godchild of the social media team - each has real significance; our move to bluesky, birthday hat... and prizes for guesses re the others.

Happy (early) Birthday to the father of Field Epidemiology! John Snow, who turns 213 on March 15th, is legendary for using disease mapping to determine the source of the London cholera outbreak in 1854. #JohnSnow #Epidemiology

"Armed conflict represents one of the most direct and destructive assaults on public health systems" New paper in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases discusses the unravelling of global health governance order. www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...

“Things Fall Apart”: The Unravelling of Global Health Governance and the Imperative for Action Preserving Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

In his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe observes: “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered” [1]. Global health has likewise come to revere achiev...

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Recommended read 📖: Library of Lost Maps by Prof James Cheshire is a personal journey through the UCL map library and some fantastic finds. If you love maps, you'll love this. 🖼️ One of first global health maps www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Prof Sir Nicholas White contributed significant advances to the treatment of #malaria, amongst other major achievements. @thetimes.com has an excellent obituary (paywall) www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

We missed this post entirely but very glad you were able to make the pilgrimage @drjenndowd.bsky.social ! Next time feel free to email us via the details in our website; sometimes we may be able to arrange a formal tour with a member of the Society steering committee 📍🗺️

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Epidemiologist joy…The OG Broad Street Pump. Thanks, Dr. John Snow, for the steadfast reminder of why we do what we do! #episky #publichealth @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising). New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Despite the 19th century discovery of the mode of transmission of cholera and the rapid evolution of its prevention and treatment, it still remains a problem today. More than 16,000 new cases recorded in early 2026, mostly in Africa. www.who.int/publications...

Thomas Wakley, the original editor of @thelancet.com was indeed no friend of Dr John Snow. In happier news, the journal published a 'corrected' obituary in 2013: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... We're glad you had a refreshing visit to the John Snow pub @pwgtennant.bsky.social‬ 😊

John Snow

Physician, epidemiologist, and anaesthetist. Born in York, UK, on March 15, 1813, he died in London on June 16, 1858, aged 45 years.

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Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I love the John Snow Pub but I think he deserves a museum! He sacrificed so much to try & convince the medical community that cholera was spread by contaminated water & was shunned until death. The tone & brevity of his original obituary in the Lancet says it all. Cc @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social

Exclusive by @nature.com: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

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Graph of the Day📉: Relationship between coffee intake and incident dementia, in new @jama.com paper by team at @hsph.harvard.edu jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Today, on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔍 We'd like to draw your attention to the most recent research articles in the ongoing series of women in #epidemiology research - and still accepting articles!👇 www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

@bmj.com 📣 Call for papers on the geopolitics of global health 👇 www.bmj.com/content/392/...