Research with colleagues @GregoriGalofre David Stuckler Christopher M. Meissner Jonathan Koltai et al has documented how austerity creates conditions that allow populist / xenophobic politicians to thrive

Excited to share our article just out in British Jnl Poli Sci #OpenAccess . The first meta-analysis of the evidence of a causal association between economic #insecurity and #populism provides a definite answer confirming that economic insecurity is a robust cause. Manuel Serrano-Alarcón Alex Moise…

Now that i'm finally in a groove, I'm happy to let everyone I started at the Dondena Centre researching under David Stuckler focusing on #pensions and #health . Excited to be here in beautiful #Milan !

📣Job losses during the pandemic were associated with a number of negative health impacts, despite implementation of large-scale stimulus packages 🚨new paper 🚨 w/ Virginia Kotzias, Professor Clare Bambra, Ronald Labonté, & David Stuckler journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Very happy that our paper (w/ Alexandros Kentikelenis David Stuckler Martin McKee 🇺🇦) 'COVID-19 lockdowns on mental health: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in England and Scotland' has been awarded the Best Health Economics paper of 2022 by the Spanish Health Econ association (AES)

#EJPH European Journal of Public Health April 2023, editor's choice: 'The far-right and anti-vaccine attitudes: lessons from Spain’s mass COVID-19 vaccine roll-out'. The Spanish example shows that anti-vaccine rhetoric can be mitigated. academic.oup.com/eurpub/article…

I am glad to present one of my ongoing research projects (co-authored with David Stuckler Manuel Serrano-Alarcón Alex Moise and Courtney McNamara) at CEU Democracy Institute with Eva Fodor as the discussant; feel free to join us!
👉More info and registration: bit.ly/40a3qTb
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Here with Martin McKee 🇺🇦 discussing the #NHS after the #pandemic and the #JuniorDoctorsStrikes here King's College, Cambridge Cambridge University. Fantastic perspective on about the social determinants of #health across the UK and #clapforcarers and where that’s left #health care workers’ morale

2/3 In 2019 we did a synthetic control analysis finding that German social spending was much higher by 1960 than it would have been with no debt relief
Led by @GregoriGalofre w/ Christopher M. Meissner David Stuckler

academic.oup.com/ereh/article/2…

How to fix a broken PhD: live workshop twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

FastTrack LIVE Q/A #6 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

As a foreigner living in Milan I’m dumbfounded how the government blindly accepts a level of air pollution on par with New Delhi (a city renowned for its poor air, equal to smoking a pack of cigarettes/ day)

⏩Far-right supporters were initially twice as likely to be vaccine-hesitant than the overall population

⏩With a successful vaccine rollout, this difference vanished

⏩However, hesitancy rebounded among them after the far-right leader promoted a ‘freedom of choice’ discourse

How can we overcome anti-vax attitudes in the far-right? (and what tactics to watch out for)

Our new paper w Manuel Serrano-Alarcón Martin McKee 🇺🇦 with empirical evidence from Spain's COVID vaccine rollout:
academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance…

'Global financing for health policy and systems research: a review of funding opportunities'

New HealthPolicyPlanning article by Political Determinants of Health Collective members Alexandros Kentikelenis and David Stuckler highlighting the need to include #HPSR components in all funding calls

academic.oup.com/heapol/advance…

Increasing domestic tax revenues is key to health, especially in countries with low tax bases. We Aaron Reeves David Stuckler Martin McKee 🇺🇦 previously found evidence of pro-poor taxes on profits and capital gains enabling expanded health coverage. Here: go.unu.edu/YJZQl

Previous research has suggested a link between missing teeth and dementia. Our new paper, led by Cornelia Santoso, w/ Manuel Serrano-Alarcón David Stuckler Stefan Serban & Attila Nagy analyses a natural experiment with English data, suggesting association is spurious
link.springer.com/article/10.100…