Registrations are open for UCL's Undergraduate Virtual Open Days in June. Join us and find out what it's like to study Population Health at London's leading multidisciplinary university: bit.ly/2Sbhnm8 #UCLVirtualOpenDays

Great to see our work on social media and alcohol use covered in this feature by @IAS alongside other important alcohol news ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies UCL IEHC

Trends in CVD risk factors by BMI category among adults in England 2003-18 by Shaun Scholes Linda Ng & me of @HSSRGnews UCL EPH IEHC Director pub in Obesity doi.org/10.1002/oby.23… Higher diabetes but greater falls in HT and raised cholesterol among ppl w overweight/obesity

Heavier social media use 🤳: are there links with binge-drinking 🍻 in young people? Linda Ng, Yvonne Kelly and nkcable share their research here: buff.ly/3nlqRa9 #socialmedia #alcohol #bingedrinking #screentime #tiktok #facebook #instagram #snapchat

Australian alcohol companies have been targeting children with advertising, leading to Facebook restricting marketing options. Companies will not be able to target under 18s based on interests, only by age, gender & location. FARE theguardian.com/technology/202…

Facebook to limit ads children see after revelations Australian alcohol companies can reach teens (by Josh Taylor & Christopher Knaus) Reset.Tech Australia Chris Cooper Danica Keric Julia Stafford @abbiecvidler Hannah Pierce Cancer Council WA #alcohol #advertising #teens theguardian.com/technology/202…

Please retweet! *Funded PhD opportunity* We are offering a mixed-methods project on digital sober communities and how they might affect drinking and mental health, supervised by Inge Kersbergen, Anna Lavis, @rachelcwinter, and me. Inge is happy to discuss the details!

Attending The Lancet UKPHSci Conference #PHSci and interested in social media and adolescent risk behaviours? Drop by our⚡️presentation session B-18 “Does social media influence adolescent engagement in health risk behaviours? A systematic review and meta-analysis”[🧵1/7]⬇️

Great to see our work on the increases in non-drinking among young people in the #healthsurveyforengland featuring in this article UCL IEHC theguardian.com/society/2021/d…

A 2018 study led by Dr Linda Ng Fat (UCL IEHC) found that an increasing number of young people did not drink alcohol at all and reported significant decreases in the number of young people who drank above recommended limits or binged. bit.ly/3ERglPH

New publication! Why is drinking by young people declining in the UK and elsewhere? Adam Burgess, Laura Fenton and I investigated by doing some research with young people who self-define as moderate/non drinkers… 1/8 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Our latest study looking into inequalities in behavioural risk factors for non-communicable disease has been published in BMC University of Warwick Warwick Med School Linda Ng Jenny Mindell @cphpqmul NIHR ARC West Midlands @qmul Open access here: rdcu.be/dhV1j

This study examines smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and fruit and veg intake by 4 measures of socio-economic status from 2003-2019 in England finding persisting and increasing inequalities. doi.org/10.1186/s12889… Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Come and hear the latest findings from the #healthsurveyforengland ! collab w/ NatCen and NHS England Transformation - two weeks to go, register here for in-person or online attendance: tinyurl.com/HSESeminar2023 At UCL IEHC UCL EPH UCL Population Health Sciences

📢 Important data in time for Xmas! Nature Communications Binge-pattern #alcohol consumption interacts with genetics and diabetes to increase (6x!) #liver disease risk nature.com/articles/s4146… Linda Ng Chengyi Ding Annie Britton @UCLmedsci Oxford Population Health (OxPop) UK Biobank #livertwitter

According to new research from the Royal Free Hospital, @UCL, the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, people who binge drink and have a certain genetic makeup are six times more likely to develop alcohol-related cirrhosis. Read more here 👇 royalfree.nhs.uk/news/binge-dri…

Those who drink a lot in one sitting and have a certain genetic makeup are six times more likely to develop alcohol-related cirrhosis, finds new research co-led by Linda Ng (UCL IEHC), DoM_UCL & Royal Free London in collaboration with Cambridge University. bit.ly/3H1Y0T3

Submissions are now open for our Health Studies User Conference on 1 July (in collaboration with UCL & NatCen). See our website to learn more ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/02/26/cal… #UKDSHealth24

There's one week left to submit your paper proposal for our Health Studies User Conference! The deadline for submissions is midnight on 1 April. ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/02/26/cal…

👋UCL-IfWH BAME Master's Scholarship: One award is available per academic year; students can apply once only. £10,000 towards tuition fees. Deadline: 31 July 2024 Find out more ⬇️ buff.ly/3XYFMLH