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Viveka Guzmán

@vivekaguzman.bsky.social

Postdoc researcher on social, genetic & environmental factors of health @Imperial College London. Passionate about health geography, global health equity, planetary health & sea swimming

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Long Covid Support @longcovidsupport.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to everyone who joined this morning’s webinar launching our bodymapping toolkit. It was lovely to have such thoughtful engagement. Beth, Maaret & @oonaghcousins.bsky.social are really grateful to share their work. Recording out soon. Toolkit link below 👇

Powerpoint slide split on the left with logos: School of Geography and Environment, Long Covid Support, UKRI, Univeristy of Oxford. Title of presentation: When you cant find the words: Developing a body mapping toolkit with Long Covid patients. Oonagh Cousins, Maaret Jokela Pansini, Beth Greenhough. On the right a bodymap show a creative piece of conveying the experience of Long Covid.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

What makes a place feel happy? A psychologist asked students to map their joy in #Philly — revealing how nature, beauty, safety and a sense of belonging shape our emotional wellbeing.

Philly psychology students map out local landmarks and hidden destinations where they feel happiest

Public squares, secret gardens and offbeat cafes can offer respite and a sense of community connection, which contribute to happiness.

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Long Covid Support @longcovidsupport.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨1/5. Cutting PIP will: ⚠️ Push people further away from work ⚠️ Increase poverty ⚠️ Drive decline in health & independence See what people said below ⬇️ 📧 Contact your MP today & ask them to oppose the proposed welfare changes!! #LongCovid #TakingThePIP

Long Covid Support@longcovidsupport.bsky.social · last yr.

1/4. ❌ PIP cuts will be devastating for people with #LongCovid and #ME. Our new briefing shows these reforms will push people further from work, deepen poverty & worsen health. We’re calling on MPs to oppose the cuts - help us flood their inboxes! Link to briefing & how to act below ⬇️

Blue background with white writing: PIP cuts will be devastating for people with Long Covid & ME. Read the briefing & take action. 4 logos: Long Covid Support, Action for ME, MELN, #ThereForME

Viveka Guzmán @vivekaguzman.bsky.social · last yr.

🎨🎬 Brilliant presentation by Helen Manchester @helenmanchester.bsky.social on Re-imagining Ageing Futures at #BSG2025 Main message I take 🏠 with me: "Creatively imagining futures gives us tangible tools in the present to make other/better futures possible"

Viveka Guzmán @vivekaguzman.bsky.social · last yr.

🤒How do older people make-sense of persistent COVID symptoms? 🤔 How does this influence their behaviors & outcomes? 📝 I'm presenting findings from the REACT study at the #BSG2025 conference, let's have a chat! 🗨️ @imperialsph.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social

Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Imperial and @ukdri.ac.uk researchers have uncovered a link between COVID-19 and changes that can contribute to neurodegenerative disease. The greatest effects were seen in those hospitalised with COVID or with underlying risk factors ⬇️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260553/...

COVID-19 linked to increase in biomarkers for abnormal brain proteins | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Researchers have uncovered a link between COVID-19 and blood markers linked to faulty proteins in the brain.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)@msf.ca · 2y ago

#Mexico: The recent executive orders on #migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 2y ago

New e-learning to better understand the process that leads to #VaccineAcceptance & factors influencing attitudes towards #vaccination. The course is mainly for healthcare workers but anyone interested in promoting & facilitating vaccination can register! Ready to learn more? Click: bit.ly/42rWnK2

Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 2y ago

📷 Beautiful & emotive photo exhibition with testimony at The Wellcome Collection of #pwME by Jeremy Jeffs Will let the photos do the talking in this 🧵 wellcomecollection.org/stories/livi...

Living with ME

Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢New Issue of Area!📢 December's Issue features a Special Section on 'Health Geographies' and 9 papers on topics from slow emergencies in Hong Kong to collaborative zine making in public libraries. 13/15 papers are open access & free to read now: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geo

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Health Geographies'. The papers are:
1) Reflections on a healthy discipline: Celebrating 50 years of health geography within the Royal Geographical Society
Thomas A. Lowe, Andy Harrod, Richard Gorman, Chloe Asker, Jeremy Auerbach
2) ‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia
Meghánn Catherine Ward, Christine Milligan, Emma Elizabeth Rose, Mary Elliott
3) ‘It's probably more about the people’: For a person-centred approach to understanding benefits of nature-based interventions
Andy Harrod, Nadia von Benzon, Mark Limmer
4) ‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing-in-place in Ireland during COVID-19
Viveka Guzman, Ronan Foley, Frank Doyle, Maria Pertl
5) The role of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group in shaping an evolving field over time
Andrew Power
6) The past, present and future of health geography: An exchange with three long standing participants in the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group
Chloe Asker, Richard Gorman, Thomas Aaron Lowe, Sarah Curtis, Graham Moon, Julia Jones

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue.
The papers are:
1) Normalisation of evacuation under slow emergencies: The imposed story of ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’
Shu-Mei Huang, Ying-Fen Chen, Wing Yin Cheung, King-Hung Leung
2) ‘Things have changed since we last spoke…’: The impacts of parental death on the life and livelihood of a young informal vendor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nathan Salvidge
3) Principles for delivering transformative co-design methodologies with multiple stakeholders for achieving nature recovery in England
Lucy Barkley, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Chris Short, Hannah Bloxham
4) Naming the abyss: The symbolic politics of the oceanic toponymic frontier
Sergei Basik
5) Island geologic connections: Reimagining Guernsey's spatial dynamics through land–sea–geologic relations, past and present
Fiona Ferbrache
6) Rural songs for COVID-19 times? UK folk music's resurgent engagement with the countryside
Keith Halfacree
7) I say a little prayer for me: Poetry as spiritual self-care in the ethnographic field
Josep Almudéver Chanzà
8) Making the case for ‘care-full’, ‘slower’ research: Reflections on researching ethically and relationally using mobile phone methods with food-insecure households during the COVID-19 pandemic
Alison Briggs
9) Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co-productive zine-making in public libraries
Rianne van Melik, Jamea Kofi, Friederike Landau-Donnelly

Dr Gemma Clunie @gemmaclunie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fantastic paper by @sarindiary.bsky.social on improving the maternity experience for Black, African, Caribbean & mixed-Black families in NW London. Demonstrating the power of participatory research methods when prioritising directions @profhelenward.bsky.social qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Improving the maternity experience for Black, African, Caribbean and mixed-Black families in an integrated care system: a multigroup community and interprofessional co-production prioritisation exerci...

Background Ethnic inequities in maternity care persist in England for Black, African, Caribbean and mixed-Black heritage families, resulting in poorer care experiences and health outcomes than other m...

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