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Leah Shipton, MPH, PhD

@leahshipton.bsky.social

Term Assistant Professor at SFU School of Public Policy | Political scientist studying global health governance and health policy | www.leahshipton.com

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The Progress Report@theprogressreport.ca · last yr.

Alberta's expanded use of private surgical facilities isn't an attempt to support a struggling public system, argues academic Andrew Longhurst in Parkland's new report "Operation Profit." It's a deliberate and ideologically-motivated attempt to cannibalize it www.theprogressreport.ca/operation-pr...

Operation Profit report argues Alberta’s surgery privatization initiative is starving the public system to prove an ideological point

An interview with Andrew Longhurst about his report into private surgical facilities, "Operation Profit."

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Nora Kenworthy@kenworthy.bsky.social · last yr.

So much punching down today. The highest tariffs imposed today were on Lesotho, a tiny mountainous African country whose primary wage industry is making clothes for Levi, Gap, Walmart and other brands. I’ve spent a lot of time in those factories, and let me tell you…

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last yr.

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

Ben Verboom@verboom.bsky.social · last yr.

The US cuts off funding to GAVI, which provides a huge proportion of the vaccines needed by low-income countries, and to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, which (among many things) works to prevent spillover of dangerous pathogens from animals to humans. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries

A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦@jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · last yr.

Serious conflict of interest - obesity head at Novo Nordisk Fdn is a paid advisor to chocolate firm - & he has called into question the widely accepted classification system on ultraprocessed foods. Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$ www.ft.com/content/4f36...

Novo Nordisk foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero

Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · last yr.

As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review: 1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence) 2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.

Leah Shipton, MPH, PhD@leahshipton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yes! I'm working on a case study of medical oxygen governance during covid & engineers were crucial to navigating the learning curve. Also shows that the pandemic treaty must recognize the breadth of health professionals needed for pandemic PPR, as colleagues & I speak to here: tinyurl.com/5n7prych

The health and care workforce in the Pandemic Agreement: championing equity and protecting collective capacity for future pandemics

COVID-19 has highlighted, unequivocally, the need for strengthened health and care workforce policies and systems globally. As Member States negotiate a new WHO Pandemic Agreement to ensure improved c...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 2y ago

Engineers add tremendous value in all areas of global health and medical care. They are unsung heroes of global health www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...