One in 52 Blackpool children in care as poverty soars in north of England theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Levelling Up - what’s the verdict? Not good when it comes to health Luke Munford & our Health Equity North work quoted in this assessment by Guardian news Kate Pickett Professor Clare Bambra amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Really pleased to share this graphic from our @ARC_NENC project on how fuel poverty impacts mental health. The graphic was shaped by our conversations with @ARC_GM public involvement panel and Edberts House community centre in Newcastle. Scoping review on the topic soon to follow

Restructuring of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is a further step in the wrong direction for tackling health inequalities bmj.com/content/384/bm… The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL Sir Michael Marmot Fuse Health Equity North

Our annual Joseph Rowntree Foundation UK Poverty report is out today & it paints a shameful picture of social failure at scale.

6m people in very deep poverty would need to double their income to just meet the poverty line.

It's election year - politicians must step up: jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-202…

Still thinking a lot about Your Fat Friend Film - brilliantly filmed by Jeanie Finlay, and such a great and tender portrait of Aubrey. Naturally, it’s time to crack on reading more on fat activism: yourfatfriend.com/fat-reading-li…

Wrote to The Times and The Sunday Times responding to Suella saying that only *some* homeless people should be allowed tents. Glad they published it.

We're hiring! Three fascinating roles in Department of Health and Social Care International Directorate - a great place to work for anyone with an interest in global health.

Public Health jobs

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Please share especially if UK based

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Really good article

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Social security should be seen as an investment in people rather than just a black hole for public money - this is particularly true for children living in poverty as this investment will echo throughout their entire life. We have to get more confident at making this argument 6/9

I'm easing myself back into the PhD (post-holiday, post-upgrade!) with The Next Shift - and it's such a compelling read. Brutal depictions of working in the steel industry, but also how its failure deepened existing inequality. Lots for public health in here.

CALL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PARTICIPANTS for PhD project, info 👇. Hope findings will help improve inequalities in care. If you are interested in taking part, please email: [email protected] or DM for more info. #maternalmentalhealth #maternalmhmatters

Body image and ethnicity | MQ: Participate

Thank you ⁦MQ⁩ for sharing my research!

Keen to get as many people as possible involved in the ⁦Body Image and Ethnicity Study⁩ in this final recruitment push 🙏🏼

⁦QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health⁩ participate.mqmentalhealth.org/studies/body-i…

Exciting PhD opportunity at Newcastle available with Professor Clare Bambra Dr Niall Cunningham and me: jobs.ac.uk/job/CZK386/phd…

“One in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but in the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most likely will.” ft.com/content/653bbb…

(1/4) We have an exciting opportunity to join our Centre as a Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) Member!

The LEAB is trying to change the way mental health #research is done by grounding it in #livedexperience .

➡️ kcl.ac.uk/join-our-lived…

Want to know more? 👀🧵

Publication day for our new book with Policy Press looking at regional inequalities over the pandemic and is *free* to read online!

John Hills' book 'Good times, bad times: the welfare myth of them or us' feels so relevant to today's 'something for nothing' debate. The distinction between social redistribution and lifetime redistribution is an important one that shouldn't be missed

🚨New Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on the state of the COL crisis is out. It is so scary.
💷7.2m going without basics
💷4.7m in arrears
💷2.4m borrowing to pay bills
💷5.7m hungry, cutting or skipping meals
It's particularly bad for v low income hhlds, private renters and 18-34s.
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