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Christopher Millett
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Professor of Public Health, Imperial College London

Visiting Professor of Public Health, NOVA University Lisbon

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Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 3d
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How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 3d
Reducing the harms from ever larger cars.
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Reducing the harms from ever larger cars
Parking policy, taxation, and regulation could help curb sales and health risks Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are passenger cars that have a chassis with extra ground clearance and are generally tal...
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 4d
In the UK, SUVs accounted for 63% of new sales in 2024.

The proliferation of SUVs is one aspect of “carspreading,” whereby cars are becoming steadily larger over time and with this comes potential harms to health 🧵

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 25d
Ultra-processed foods are reshaping global diets, health, & the planet.

Join us for the global launch of a new Series on UPFs & Human Health on 19 Nov. 🌍

Experts will unpack the science, policy, & politics of #UPFs.

Register to attend 👉 tinyurl.com/3h2t5mr4
High-angle photography of grocery display in a supermarket. Copyright: Peter Bond on Unsplash.

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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · Oct 9
How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?

🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)

Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods

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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Sep 24
75 global health organisations have already commitment to cut ties with PR & ad agencies working with fossil fuel clients.
Today in #NewYork #UNGA, our community is proudly represented by @maibached.bsky.social
📍 24 Sept, 3:30pm EST / 8:30pm GMT+1
Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13...
#SDGLive

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Peas & Potatoes Or Pills & Procedures? @peasorpills.bsky.social · Sep 19
New in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social:"We estimated that providing meals in line with recommendations for healthy and sustainable patterns could reduce environmental impacts on average by 26% for flexitarian meals, 43% for #vegetarian meals and 52% for #vegan meals."
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The health, environmental, and cost implications of providing healthy and sustainable school meals for every child by 2030: a global modelling study
Universal school meal coverage could make important contributions to improving children’s health, the food security of their families, and the sustainability of food systems. However, dedicated policy...
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Marion Nestle @marionnestle.bsky.social · Sep 19
Weekend Reading: Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor: Food and Ag

Corporate Climate Resposibility Monitor has published its 2025 report: Food and Agriculture Sector Deep Dive, which looks at measures of protection against climate change.  It doesn't find much. It does find: Agrifood companies…
Weekend Reading: Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor: Food and Ag
Corporate Climate Resposibility Monitor has published its 2025 report: Food and Agriculture Sector Deep Dive, which looks at measures of protection against climate change.  It doesn't find much. It does find: Agrifood companies present measures that are unlikely to lead to structural, deep emission reductions in the sector. Agrifood companies’ emission reduction targets are currently undermined by the undefined role for land-based carbon removals.
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Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial @ic-cep.bsky.social · Sep 19
Human-made global heating caused 2 in 3 heat deaths in Europe this summer - 16,500 lives lost.

“The causal chain from fossil fuel burning to rising heat & increased mortality is undeniable,” says @frediotto.bsky.social

#ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #PublicHealth
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
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Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · Sep 19
“It doesn’t matter how you feel about animal rights activists, or if you’re vegetarian. You have to understand how this works. Because it’s going to be applied elsewhere.”
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Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
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Richard Patterson @richpatter.bsky.social · Sep 16
Apply for a PhD studentship in public health within our team. www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...
2026 Studentship Opportunities - CAM-DTP
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · Sep 15
⏳Last chance to join us for the release of "Cradle to Grave" our new report about the global health impacts of fossil fuels.

👇We'll have an amazing line-up of speakers & we hope you join too!
🗓️Sept 16th / 2 to 3pm GMT - 9 to 10am EDT
🔗Register: bit.ly/C2GLaunch

Reposted by Christopher Millett, Ana Bastos

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 10
Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time
Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time
Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time, according to a new analysis. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for the damages being caused by the climate crisis. The research found that the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible. The study shows, in effect, that those emissions caused the heatwaves. Continue reading...
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The George Institute for Global Health @georgeinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 3
Congrats to our colleague, Bruce Neal and all involved in securing NHMRC support to establish a Centre of Research Excellence to reform the use of salt in the world's supply chain and ultimately drive sustainable changes for better heart health.

Read more: bit.ly/3HS470c

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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · Sep 2
Thank you to the @bmj.com for putting together this series, for helping bear witness to the commercial drivers and perverse incentives of some of our most egregious health crises.
bmj.com The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 2
The corporate practices of arms companies have direct implications for human and #PlanetaryHealth

Our NEW @bmj.com series applies a commercial determinants of health framework to the arms industry

Read here: www.bmj.com/collections/...

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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Sep 2
Research by Divya Bhagtani and colleagues finds consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) varied across South Asia by sociodemographic factors.

In Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & North India, ∼75% reported consuming UPFs in previous day, versus 41% in South India & Pakistan.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26
Decades of climate progress is being dismantled by a coalition of the wealthy and powerful. The Guardian is committed to exposing them.

Support our annual climate support campaign today. www.theguardian.com/climate...
Support the Guardian | Make a Contribution
Help us deliver the independent journalism the world needs. Support the Guardian by making a contribution.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 22
STUDY: “Traffic simulations on large urban networks prove that emission reductions of over 10% can be achieved in the case of a well-chosen speed limit policy.”

In other words, smartly lowering speed limits in cities not only saves lives & improves quality of life…it can also reduce emissions.
On the relationship of speed limit and CO2 emissions in urban traffic
The paper analyzes the relationship between urban speed limits and vehicle emissions. There is an ongoing trend of reducing speed limits from 50km/h t…
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · Aug 18
From the beaches of South Australia, a cry for climate action www.croakey.org/from-the-bea...
From the beaches of South Australia, a cry for climate action
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · Aug 17
Un estudio coordinado por #ISGlobal muestra que cada aumento del 1% en la cobertura de #ProtecciónSocial reduce la mortalidad infantil un 0,34%.

Reforzar la protección social salva vidas y fortalece la resiliencia ante crisis globales.

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#SaludGlobal #Equidad
Social Protection Has Prevented More Than Three Million Child Deaths in 46 Low- and Middle-Income Countries - ISGLOBAL
Social protection programmes prevented over 3M child deaths in 46 countries between 2000–2021, with major impact during COVID-19.
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · Aug 15
Mortality linked to wildfire #PM25 may be 93% underestimated, according to a new #ISGlobal study.

Smoke particles from #wildfires pose greater risks than other sources.

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#AirPollution #GlobalHealth

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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · Aug 8
Hate self promoting posts! And not going to say 'I am delighted' 😂 but also no one will promote this for me 😂. So sod it! Please give my article some love or a repost. This article means a lot to me on food aid beyond the food bank!

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‘Free Food Places’: Looking Beyond the Food Bank to Better Understand Alternative Models of Food Aid - Kate Haddow, 2025
In the last decade, there has been a vast increase in research into the rise of food aid, particularly food banks, in wealthier countries. However, what has bee...
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IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social · Jul 31
A new paper by @geoffbates.bsky.social, Pablo Newberry, Rachael McClatchey, @jacknewman.bsky.social and @sarahayres.bsky.social explores how health is integrated in urban development, and how to bring about change to support healthier development.

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How can health be further integrated in urban development policymaking in the United Kingdom? A systems mapping approach - Health Research Policy and Systems
Background In the United Kingdom the government’s new health mission aims to reduce the burden on healthcare services by shifting from treating poor health to prevention. Delivering this requires acti...
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Rob Percival @rob-percival.bsky.social · Aug 4
“For decades the UK government’s ‘healthy eating’ guidelines have neglected processing, assuming that whole foods and ultra-processed products might deliver the same health outcomes. We now know that to be false.”

@thesoilassociation.bsky.social spittin truth 👇

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Home cooking and minimally processed foods best for weight loss, study finds
Dieters in UCL trial lost twice as much weight when avoiding ultra-processed ready meals with as much nutrition
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · Aug 3
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Jul 25
🌍📜 Licensing and subsidising fossil fuels can now "constitute internationally wrongful acts,” write Dr @frediotto.bsky.social and ‪Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie.

Read their commentary on why The ICJ's new advisory marks a turning point for climate accountability: ow.ly/7aix50WvkuM
The ICJ’s climate ruling goes far beyond legal battles between small states and big polluters
Written by Professor Friederike Otto, Professor in Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie, Research Fellow at Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. O...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 14
Sobering study on the devastating impact of aid cuts on tuberculosis incidence and mortality in low and middle income countries

Governments of highest TB burden nations will need to wake up and invest more!

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The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study
We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 11
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit Nearly all rivers, lakes and ponds in England tested for a range of Pfas, known as “forever chemicals”, exceed proposed new safety limits and 85% contain levels at least five times higher, analysis of official data reveals. Out of 117 water bodies tested by the Environment Agency for multiple types of Pfas, 110 would fail the safety standard, according to analysis by Wildlife and Countryside Link and the Rivers Trust. Continue reading...
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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · Jul 4
Recent cuts to #USAID foreign aid could result in 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five.

#FinancingOurFuture #FFD4
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 2
Chris Whitty says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health
Chris Whitty says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health
Chief medical officer for England urges people to set media cliches aside to focus on health benefits of physical activity Culture war-based coverage of cycling based on stereotypes of middle-aged men in Lycra could harm the nation’s health because it shifts focus away from the people and communities who benefit from physical activity, Chris Whitty has said. Speaking a day before the launch of the NHS’s 10-year-health plan, which is expected to focus heavily on prevention, Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, called for people to set aside media cliches and instead focus on “data which nobody can dispute”. Continue reading...
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