Nice to wrap up an incredible final few days at the World Conference on Drowning Prevention! #WCDP2023 From insightful talks on data-driven interventions to discussions on behaviour change, this conference has been a catalyst for transformative ideas in #DrowningPrevention

Good news to finish the year for the team. More #drowningprevention research coming soon - add these to your ‘to read’ list for 2024. Congrats and thanks to all involved - including those not on this platform/who can’t be tagged.

'It's worse to be poor in Britain than in most other European countries, including Slovenia.' 'It's grim in the extreme', Professor Sir Michael Marmot tells Andrew Marr, in response to a rise in Victorian-era diseases.

Seems like it. Also, using the fantastic co-incidence network maps from Steven Turnbull Dr Matthew Hobbs🏃 Dion O'Neale Emily Harvey Dr Lesley Gray, it could seed cases far and wide. link to the paper on the following tweet. Shinyapp here: stur600.shinyapps.io/aotearoa-coinc…

🌟 Exciting news! 🌟 Our paper "Examining structural inequities in nationwide drinking water data in Aotearoa New Zealand: a geospatial cross-sectional study" is accepted for publication in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy! Stay tuned for insights on equitable water access

Nice to return to #NewZealand after the first trip of the sabbatical

👏👏The GRI Director Prof Matthew Wilson awarded with one IIT-Delhi Fellowships! Te Whare Wānanga of Waitaha | University of Canterbury academics have been awarded two of four inaugural IIT-Delhi India-New Zealand Centre Fellowships. All information at: canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-event…

We are currently scoping out interest for a systems science related SIG at ISBNPA. If this is something that you would be interested in seeing at future conferences, please let us know by completing the very simple form below 😀 forms.office.com/e/dXbNJBbKph

Our latest research delves into the UK's food prices from 2013-2023, amidst the cost-of-living crisis. Despite the inflationary surge post-2021, healthy foods saw smaller relative price increases but remain pricier, perhaps increasing dietary inequalities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great to be part of the team out out on the bowling green :) my crown green bowls game... let's just say my talent lies in providing the entertainment for the spectators with most bowls ending up in the ditch! 😂

New paper from Matt Keeble exploring public acceptability of local planning restrictions on new takeaways around schools. 51% of adults support, 37% neutral, 9% opposed. Thus new proposals are unlikely to be met with substantial public disapproval tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper with Emmanuel (Manos) Stamatakis Dr Coral Hanson Alice Pearsons and Roger Chou Review of physical activity guidelines development processes · The quality varied across jurisdictions · The most robust processes were undertaken by the WHO and Canada sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“On empty, redundant, pointless systematic reviews” This👇should be required reading in all oral health and #dentistry graduate courses - for PhD students, clinical trainees *and* academics. We need more critically reflective commentaries & less of the (ever-increasing)

Large walking and wellbeing behaviour benefits of co-designed sustainable park improvements: A natural experimental study in a UK deprived urban area sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper published by I. Waterman, L. Marek, A. Ahuriri-Driscoll, et al., called “Investigating the spatial and temporal variation of vape retailer provision in New Zealand: A cross-sectional and nationwide study” doi.org/10.1016/j.socs… #interactivemap storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9057d7…

For everyone interested in Oral Health Inequalities check out the 50th Anniversary Special Issue we published last year With a dream team of Guest Editors Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social Anja Heilmann & Carol Guarnizo-Herreno Including 15 commentaries, essays, reviews & original articles by

Dr Lukas Marek was invited as an expert to Geospatial Summer School 2024 focusing on #geohealth and spatial analysis in health. The event took place at the Department of Geoinformatics, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. GeoHealth Laboratory Lukas Marek

Looking forward to the privilege of delivering one of the keynote presentations at this years New Zealand Dental Association Conference and Expo 2024

Really enjoyed the privilege of delivering my presentation at this years New Zealand Dental Association Conference and Expo 2024 where we took a deep dive into community water fluoridation in Aotearoa New Zealand #spatial #GIS #publichealth

Wiley is the latest science publisher set to cash in on a huge amount of money - £33 million - from selling authors’ content to tech firms to train their AI models. No opt-out for authors; no consent needed. Ethical business practice or not? thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set…