Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Michelle Kelly-Irving

@mkellyirving.bsky.social

3.5K followers 1.2K following 950 posts

Health equity, social inequalities, lifecourse, embodiment

Leads the Inserm #Equity team University of Toulouse, France

Social Epidemiologist & quantitative social scientist

Health Inequality, 3rd Ed, polity

https://cerpop.inserm.fr/equipe-equity .. more

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Medicine 18%

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Nov 14

Over the summer some very important public health program leaders shared their struggles in keeping their work going since the #usaid cuts

Here’s an article about it, please share to increase awareness & motivate political action

“Decades of progress - undone”

www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

Decades of progress — undone

After years of steady gains against poverty and inequality, the recent funding cuts threaten Africa’s health systems. New, resilient funding is vital

www.ips-journal.eu

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 2d

🧵1/ Global health is under attack, and not just by pathogens. Governments are walking away from international law, blocking humanitarian access, and even targeting health workers. We need a principled response, which @tiagocorreia.bsky.social & I set out in an editorial in Eur J Public Health

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 5d

It helps, however, to be a Paris-based researcher, closer to the seats of power and influence... after all, data is power these days

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 5d

Regularly, by the time we have obtained data for a research objective, 18 to 24 months have passed, and funding is running out for the early career researchers who were planning to work on it

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 5d

The principle is that of suspicion. Despite both the researchers and the data being paid for by public funds, researchers are treated with suspicion in our attempts to access the data.

The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 5d

The value of publicly-funded population cohort studies is not in how many bone fide public researchers make use of the data to the benefit of science and the French population, instead data are 'safeguarded' by layers needless regulations & personal conflicts of interest

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 5d

The dataset connecting French social & health data requires permissions from 3 regulatory bodies, 3 sets of producer approvals & the use of an online platform oxymoronically named ‘simplified procedures’ which includes a 37pg checklist embedded within another checklist

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 7d

📢 TRUTH 🔽
"Our politics is dominated by people who have never lived on a low income and know little of what such a life involves. There are remarkably few ways for people to truly shape government decisions that will determine their own lives."
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

We have allowed poverty to become normalised in our country | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to deepening poverty in the UK and ways to address it

www.theguardian.com

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 7d

I’m still not sure if enough Americans fully understand how

they have subjected the rest of the world, and themselves to this…

by voting for it

Twice

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

I’m still not sure if enough Americans fully understand how hard it is for the rest of us to continually see polls showing “how unpopular Trump is” when he’s he’s still ridiculously and shockingly more popular than he should be in any sane nation.

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving, Rosemary A. Joyce, Paolo Beria

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 9d

#HealthInequalities are exacerbated in the health system when women’s symptoms are considered to be “atypical” or explained-away as being not ‘true’ physical symptoms. When building research projects on health this issue needs to be addressed in the design phase

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

Despite the call being driven by well-known inequities in cardiovascular health care, the idea that women’s symptoms are “atypical” is still in the vocabulary of practicing clinicians.

They are not atypical. so don’t bake that into your design or you’re perpetuating avoidable inequalities

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

Be critical of equations, algorithms, tools or instruments that “adjust” automatically for sex or race/ethnicity ex. adjusting lung or kidney function readings/ estimates. These are common in medicine, often applied without knowing about them. Check for these & question why they would apply

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

Social positions (gender, social class, race/ethnicity etc) are embodied physiologically. There are social-driven differences in biology between men & women, across social class and racialised minorities, and at the intersections of these positions which affect cardiovascular risk factors & outcomes

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

A couple of recent observations regarding knowledge about #HealthInequalities among scientists as I work with diverse sets of colleagues preparing grants for the Horizon Europe sex/ gender & cardiovascular disease

Reposted by Daniel S. Goldberg

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

In case you missed it, an article collection on the “Social uses of the body”

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Social Science & Medicine | The Social Uses of the Body | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Social Science & Medicine at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

Nurses in NYC holding a vigil for Alex Pretti & Renee Good

www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

New York nurses hold candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti amid strike – in pictures

Nurses gathered outside a Veterans Affairs hospital in Manhattan to mourn Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis

www.theguardian.com

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

As much as i loath Teams, this ‘homegrown’ stuff will be a shitshow for those of us in French public sector. They rolled-out a new accounting system to “simplify” bureaucracy in my institution in Nov 2024 & I still dont have updated budgets today

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 10d

Heres how the “let’s roll back public health” #MAHA experiment is going in the US

“Hundreds of children across more than 20 schools in the Upstate portion of South Carolina were quarantined for the measles, health officials reported on Tuesday”

www.wbtv.com/2026/01/27/h...

Hundreds of students quarantined from South Carolina measles outbreak

Hundreds of children across more than 20 schools in the Upstate portion of South Carolina were quarantined for the measles, health officials reported.

www.wbtv.com

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 10d

UK government, I beg you: please please ban me from using Teams

France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams

The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

www.politico.eu

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Inés Escobar González @escobargonzalez.bsky.social · 11d

Hello! I’m looking for rich ethnographies of the recent feminist movements in Latin America around abortion rights, femicides, and/or “buscadoras” and the disappeared. Can someone please help? Much obliged #anthrosky #anthro #socialscience #sociocultural #academicsky #academicchatter #acwri

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, sounds good! I recommend Three Bead Salad podcast @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social for light silliness containing "people who are not sure what they're doing and whether they should be doing it" !

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 12d

On the one hand, "The British government said... it had recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety & defence, using funding from Meta"

On the other hand Meta is "Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges"

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 13d

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻

Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems.

See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Reposted by Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 10

I replaced my final assignment this semester at the last second because I felt like I couldn't LLM-proof it, and told my students as much. I got this back on my course evals. The kids are alright

This is a P.S. that doesn't really fit anywhere else: Dr. Carlson, I know you are resigned to the fact that the use of AI is inevitable and that you cannot avoid getting submissions from students that have used AI. I can't speak for everyone, but I want to say that I don't think you should give up on the idea of an AI-free classroom. I'm not sure if you had already looked at assignments when you spoke about this, and I obviously do not know what other people submitted, but I know that among myself and my friends, using AI is very frowned upon. I'm a bit of an older student. I finished college before AI became a popular tool the way it is now, so maybe I'm biased and the youths actually will make AI adoption inevitable... But I don't think it has to be, and I think much of the push for the idea that it's not going anywhere comes from huge tech investors. My key takeaway for you here: stick to your AI policy that you told us on the first day of school. You don't have to expect AI submissions. Students do better when there are people expecting better from them, especially such a respected instructor. I am very pro failing students who use AI for assignments (outside of spell check and such) and I know many other people are too. Those of us who don't use AI don't want to be in the public health field in 20 years and see that no one is able to do anything without it. It's honestly a very weird and kind of scary time to be someone in academia, and the AI of it all is making it so much worse. I really respect your policy and strong stance that you outlined on day 1, and I think it's more than fair. So TL;DR: please don't expect us to use AI, punish those who do, and know that your strong anti-AI stance is making a positive impact in our educations.

Reposted by Mel Bartley, Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · Jan 8

Voting is a stronger social determinant of health than education #Vote #SDoH #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell, Michelle Kelly‐Irving

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jan 6

Wow! Can’t wait to hear how it goes 😀

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jan 6

Wishing you a happy women’s little Christmas!

To all the amazing women in our lives

Nollaig na mban shona!

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jan 5

Wow 🤩!

Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · Jan 4

So the Top Trumps reality game here is that each time evidence of his connection to Epstein hits the headlines a country will be attacked, the military might deployed, and assets will be stripped

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