Arnaud Chiolero MD PhD
@swissepi.bsky.social
Population Health Scientist Epidemiologist | Head of the Population Health Laboratory https://projects.unifr.ch/pophealthlab/ | 🇨🇭 UNIFR & 🇨🇦 McGill #lifecourse #epidemiology #surveillance #monitoring #cancer
"Over the past few years, the rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients. It has made routine preventive care feel like walking into an ideological minefield." #PopHealthLab #evidence www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...
Rise of anti-science rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between doctors and patients
“The rise of anti-science and anti-vaccine rhetoric has fundamentally changed the relationship between clinicians and patients.”
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Fall 2025 in Switzerland🇨🇭 waiting for Christmas 🎅
Had a fantastic few days in Oslo with @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @je-schwarze.bsky.social, and colleagues (plus @jdwilko.bsky.social online!) discussing how to do better reproductive research!
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez #Science #Culture #Disinformation #ScienceCommunication #PublicTrustInScience
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world As two scientists who lived through...
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Kennedy is wrong, for sure, but how to resist⁉️ "To uphold a truly evidence-based public health, we must re-enchant and reinforce independent scientific institutions capable of generating valid expertise grounded in population health sciences." #PopHealthLab www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Reinforce Population Health Sciences for Evidence-Based Public Health
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Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
✍️ New article: “$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why?” 🧵
"Pamuk gives a compelling philosophical argument for increasing the institutions that are at the nexus of citizen civil society and the expert-led decision-making processes of government" oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/03/24/z...
Zeynep Pamuk on Politics and Expertise: ‘It’s not just a matter of fixing the communication and educating the people’ | ayzwang | Oxford Political Review
Antoine Levie speaks to Zeynep Pamuk, Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, about her recent book ‘Politics and Experti...
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"Continuously expanding disease criteria can reduce underdiagnosis and increase appropriate care, but often risk overdiagnosis, resulting in overtreatment and low-value care, ultimately threatening health care sustainability." #PopHealthLab jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Impact of Definitions of Disease on Overdiagnosis
This Viewpoint discusses the global challenge of defining diseases and the need to balance broader access to medical treatment with avoidance of harmful medicaliziation and inefficient resource use.
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US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health. ja.ma/4lZnRxG #MedSky #PedSky
This will be: * the first European Congress of Epidemiology since Cork, Ireland 2019 * the 70th conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health * the 70th anniversary of the first meeting of the International Epidemiological Association So a real celebration of Epi in Europe!
SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026
Risk prediction is made at a group level - not at an individual level 🤔 It seems evident but the confusion is pervasive 😱 and stems from the conflation between risk and disease #PopHealthLab www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Confusion between population risk prediction and individual disease
Riley and colleagues discuss the importance of presenting the uncertainty around risk estimates provided by clinical prediction models.1 They describe how uncertainty and bias can be caused by poor me...
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#Cancer screening ▶️ a whole-population or a risk-based approach⁉️ If risk-based, can you convince the "low-risk" strata to do less⁉️ #prevention #PopHealthLab @thelancetph.bsky.social @drotte.medsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org @vickersbiostats.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Screen no matter the risk?
The systematic review by Naomi Tan and colleagues published in The Lancet Public Health (February issue) on the perceptions of personalised risk-based cancer screening reflects a growing trend in the ...
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#SoonInAJPH: "Building Community Research Capacity to Address Cardiovascular Health Disparities" An adapted curriculum significantly boosts community research capacity and participation in cardiovascular health initiatives.
Three thinks to do in quantitative population health studies (1) set a theoretical estimand, (2) link it to an empirical estimand, and (3) learn from data. You want to know more⁉️ Read this fantastic review #PopHealthLab bstewart.scholar.princeton.edu/publications...
What is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory | Brandon Stewart
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A frontal assault graph from www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u... editorial @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
