The pandemic has taken a massive toll on lives & livelihoods in the UK. Yet, this outcome could have been prevented. Come to the launch of our new briefing - 'Health Versus Wealth? UK Economic Policy & Public Health During COVID-19' Register your place: link.medact.org/briefinglaunch

very excited to be speaking at this Medact briefing launch and doing every academic's favourite activity: suggesting that things purported to be binaries are, shocker, probably not in fact binaries💅 see you there tomorrow folks!!

We analyzed data on 1,127 killings by police in 2020 - finding alternative responses to mental health, traffic violations and other non-violent situations could substantially reduce fatal police violence nationwide. A thread (1/x). policeviolencereport.org

People who use drugs have higher rates of tuberculosis regardless of their #HIV status. Yet, most #TB programmes don't include #HarmReduction Tuberculosis must be integrated into harm reduction services, and vice versa. #WorldTBDay2021

On this #WorldTBDay2021 we should remember we cannot end TB without expanding #socialprotection and reducing poverty. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thoughtful article by @tweetingtony on the #necropolitics of COVID-19 and the #StateOfAcceptance: "certain bodies become marked as disposable and thus contribute to a state of acceptance wherein certain bodies are marked as acceptable losses" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #COVID19

New article in @socscimed – does national health Insurance offer financial protection to TB patients in Ghana? Analyses led by Debora Pedrazzoli suggest NHIS Ghana will not be enough, additional social protection is needed. Free download here authors.elsevier.com/c/1ctpg-CmUs0TM (till May 30th)

Day 12 #30DayChartChallenge In a biostats class, a professor taught us that our data is often people who fought for their lives and lost and we should respect the weight of that. So f*ck a strip. Here are the names of people who lost their lives to police violence in 2021.

see also: race, SEP, literally any social construct 👀 (but my takeaway isn't 'don't control for gender' but instead to ask whether gender is acting as an effect modifier vs a confounder for each particular Q, no?)

📣 Urgent Call to Action: Some MPs are pushing for Labour to make the Nordic Model policy TODAY. If you have a Labour MP please let them know that workers say #NoToNordicModel You can use this tool to email your MP - though do personalise it if you can👇 decrimnow.eaction.org.uk/nonordicmodel

it has been a dispiriting few months in the academic machine - but reading my students' brilliant & critical & thoughtful essays (written in global near-collapse, no less!!!) makes me so optimistic for the future of epi 🥺

damn, guess it's back to Fresh Burst then

The UK government has just cut our ACCESS project entirely. It’s devastating news, at a time when access to contraception & family planning are more vital than ever. IPPF Global warns that millions of vulnerable women and girls will pay the price: ippf.org/news/ippf-warn… London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine #ukaid

Solidarity is the exercise of the political imagination beyond the narrow boundaries of our individual lives. It is demeaned precisely because it is so powerful.

Spring 2021 // Issue 1

PrEP: ✅highly effective at preventing HIV transmission ✅available for free on the NHS (iwantPrEPnow) ✅not just for cis gay men (#PrEP4Women) ❌does not make you good at sports thanks to PrEPster for your outreach work & the tank!!

Daniel J Carter iwantPrEPnow Thanks Daniel! To find out more about getting PrEP for FREE on the NHS visit - prepster.info/free-prep-uk/

🚨🚨 New paper! 🚨🚨 "Accessing and utilising gender-affirming healthcare in England and Wales: trans and non-binary people’s accounts of navigating gender identity clinics" is now out with BMC Health Services Research rdcu.be/cnnGf