Another great job CMMID working with Dr Roz Eggo & myself. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Looking for a mathematical modeller to look at how we can better deliver vaccinations to reduce inequalities and decrease Winter Pressures for the NHS. Deadline 7th May.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine community! Sign your name (or anonymous details) using this form to demand that LSHTM disclose and divest from Israeli investments NOW.

fairlshtm.com/post/tell-lsht…

Epistemic Injustice and Palestine Teach In - 01/05/24

Global health scholars adopt Edward Said’s language in an attempt to “decolonize”, but have abandoned Said’s cause: Palestine. We urgently need new paradigms to reimagine the role and future of GH.

fairlshtm.com/post/epistemic…

Deadline approaching!
Recognise a colleague or your own team - enter by 29th April for the Florence Nightingale Award for Excellence in Healthcare Analytics.

Glory is yours for the taking (& the Pimms that the RSS serve at the party is pretty lovely too)...

Another day, another instalment of the EDCRN journal club!📚

Here's our latest read: 'The body is not just impacted by eating disorders – biology drives them' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Are you a healthcare professional who works primarily with adults with eating disorders in the UK? If yes, we would like to invite you take take part in our research study exploring clinicians' view on and experiences with adults in mid to later life with eating disorders 1/3

What information should ED services collect...?🤔

Strap in for insights from early consensus-building activities conducted as part of the EDCRN!👇🧵

One of the frustrating and heartbreaking aspects of what RTÉ highlighted was that all of these gaps in care and risk of exposure to abortion mis/disinformation were predicted by activists and experts in 2018. The law needs to change asap.

rte.ie/news/investiga…

We are hiring two modellers for postdoc positions at ICTA. One to focus on Integrated Assessment Modelling of post-growth climate mitigation scenarios, and one to develop an ecological macroeconomic model to assess post-growth policies. Apply here! uab.cat/web/el-centre-…

I have an article in the latest DULJ discussing the constitutional weaknesses of Ireland’s abortion law and, by extension, the lack of any serious development of repro rights law at a constitutional level.

The #GLADStudy is now also recruiting participants who DO NOT have a history of a mental health condition!

Please RT to get the word out!

More info in the🧵⤵️ and at gladstudy.org.uk

This is important! Please retweet. Many researchers have asked us to have a control comparison group recruited the same way and with the same measures. If you have never exerienced mental illness or ill-health, please consider that your contribution could help those that do!

How can it be that in 2024, we are in a position of deciding who is worthy of treating, and who can or cannot recover? The evidence is that recovery is possible for the vast majority, and that the length or severity of illness is not a predictor of recovery outcomes

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Today's poverty stats from the DWP are horrendous.

4.3 million children in relative poverty - the highest ever
3.6 million children in absolute poverty - up 300k

2.2 million children living in 'food insecure' households
820k children living in households that use foodbanks

Thanks to everyone who has applied so far - we don't yet have any applications for our treasurer role though. If you've got finance or accounting experience we'd love to hear from you.

5 years on since abortion legislation was introduced. Here are some of the challenges. Happy to have contributed to this.
ontheditch.com/analysis-state…

Some tips for supporting a person with an eating disorder who may be fasting during Ramadan.

See our Ramadan and Eating Disorders guide here: freedfromed.co.uk/guides/18/rama…

#ed #ed recovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealth awareness #fasting #bodypositive #ramadan #islam #freed

I have done a quick write-up of my talk to #ICED2024 Academy for Eating Disorders for those who weren't there & for anyone who was! I found it harder than usual today and didn't say all I wanted as well as I wanted. This blog has more of it in and I SO hope it is helpful:
jamesdowns.co.uk/post/consideri…

We have had some incredible responses so far, if you could share the call out we would be so grateful!
#ReproductiveCitizenship #Abortion #Research #Ireland

We still have a few spots for clinicians to sign up, and 1 spot left for those with lived experience (keen to hear from people with bulimia or binge eating disorder). #eatingdisorders #research #mentalhealth