Graham Moon
grahammoon.bsky.social
Graham Moon
@grahammoon.bsky.social

Health / Medical / Population geographer, social epidemiologist. Health behaviour, health modelling, old asylums in UK and NZ. Emeritus prof unisouthampton. Now mainly cycling and travel. European.

Public Health 35%
Medicine 21%

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Lots of coverage today on these new government proposals to reform the alcohol licensing system.

I can see an inherent popular appeal to allowing pubs to stay open later, but I have a lot of thoughts about why these plans are an extremely bad idea..

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth
Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts
www.theguardian.com

Yes, a fascinating lecture, expertly delivered

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As feared, the #DHS program is closing

This is a major threat to the #globalhealth statistical infrastructure moving forward

We must reorganise ourselves in the international research community to ensure this work can continue without political interference

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night

www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...

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We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course.

With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...
Research Fellow at University of Sussex
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NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. https://buff.ly/402xYcg

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Beep beep! Which occupations are associated with the lowest risk of death from Alzheimer's disease? Check out our analysis in @bmj.com Christmas Issue with some interactive graphics to explore links between Alzheimer's and navigational jobs 🚕🚑✈️🚢🚌 www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers: population based cross sectional study
Objective To analyze mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease among taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations that demand frequent spatial and navigational processing, compared with other occ...
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