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Jocalyn Clark
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International Editor, The BMJ.
Former editor The Lancet, icddr,b and PLOS Medicine. Adjunct faculty UofT and UCL. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Views mine.

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Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian public health scientist. She is the international editor of The BMJ, and has responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage. From 2016 to 2022, Jocalyn was an executive editor at The Lancet, where she led the Commentary section, coordinated peer review, and edited and delivered collections of articles and commissions on topics such as maternal and child health, oral health, migration, end of life care and gender equity. She led the Lancet's project to advance women in science, medicine, and global health, #LancetWomen. She is also an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. .. more

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Geopolitics of global health: Call for papers
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Geopolitics of global health: a call for papers
External factors are forcing change to the global health architecture, demanding creative reform amid an uncertain future If 2025 marked the dismantling of the global health architecture, then 2026 m...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 21h
As Mark Carney said in Davos: We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be

So how should health professionals adapt & frame responses amid challenging geopolitics that might require us to forge alliances with foes?

One of the many questions we are interested in YOU exploring #CallForPapers

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1d
One day before the first showdown with Team USA, and 10 days from a gold medal game, Marie-Philip Poulin limped off, and now Canada holds its breath. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...
Bruce Arthur: Canada holds its breath after Marie-Philip Poulin leaves win over the Czechs with an injury
The Canadians will likely face the rival Americans without Poulin on Tuesday. The bigger concern is if she will be available for a rematch.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 1d
SMH. RFK's CDC measles dashboard has a lead image of flights coming into the US from abroad -- as if other countries are to blame for our skyrocketing measles numbers.

>89% of cases last year were home-grown and >92% of cases this year. This is a US problem that needs domestic solutions.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d
From devastation of US’s global gag rule, to return of the manosphere in global health affairs, to brutal economic insecurity that hits women hard, to the dead man’s emails of depravity toward girls, there is a profound need to forge paths to equity, fairness, humanity & ensuring women’s RIGHTS.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d
SEVEN yrs ago today I had the privilege of launching w/ @drzucc.bsky.social & many incredible dedicated colleagues a special theme issue of research & commentary to advance #WomeninMedicine

It started a movement & reckoning on #genderequality #diversityandincusion that I feel sadly is backsliding

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 1d
🆕 Woman in #Bangladesh dies after contracting #Nipah virus in January

In Metro, Kaja Abbas highlights Nipah has a 40-75% fatality rate, but there is limited human-to-human transmission and low likelihood of pandemic spread.

#PublicHealth

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Woman dies from brain-damaging Nipah virus in Bangladesh
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d
Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.
Less than 14% of those ICE arrested had violent criminal records, data show
The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 1d
it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d
🌐I’m delighted to join @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics!

The call for papers is now published:
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Please do submit Commentaries (800 words) or Analysis pieces (2,000 words)

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Geopolitics of global health: a call for papers
External factors are forcing change to the global health architecture, demanding creative reform amid an uncertain future If 2025 marked the dismantling of the global health architecture, then 2026 m...
www.bmj.com

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 2d
📣 Call for papers on the geopolitics of global health.

We are inviting submissions of articles that interrogate and uncover the geopolitical determinants of global health.

Read more in this editorial from @jocalynclark.bsky.social and Gabriel Leung
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Jan 6
🆕 In a new piece in @bmj.com, @jonshaffer.bsky.social & I argue that the powerful physicians who lead federal agencies—e.g., the NIH & FDA—should be RESISTING Trump & RFK Jr’s damaging health policies

Instead, they’re collaborating with them, aiding & abetting the harm

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Trump and RFK Jr are dismantling public health—aided and abetted by powerful doctors
High profile physicians should be using their positions of power to resist Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, say Gavin Yamey and Jonathan Shaffer President Donald Tr...
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · Dec 29
My colleague @jocalynclark.bsky.social’s take on the race to be the next UN Director General–and why it must be a woman.
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Inside the movement to elect a woman as UN secretary general
In its 80 year history, the United Nations has been exclusively ruled by men. A growing movement is calling for women’s leadership of the international body to help bring about reform and strengthen g...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 19
I saw her at a recent event in London promoting this book and I couldn’t agree more - she has a wicked sense of humour (and justice) that made me feel I could listen to her stories and insights forever.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 12
So wonderful to see you 🎄💫

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 11
Terminated as director of FXB

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 11
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 11
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Petition to Reinstate Dr. Mary Bassett as the FXB Center Director
We, the undersigned students, faculty, and staff at Harvard University and members of the broader community, express our deepest condemnation and rejection of the decision to abruptly terminate Dr. Ma...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 11
The incomparable health & human rights leader Dr Mary Bassett has been terminated - a shocking move by Harvard bowing to pressure 🇺🇸

Read more & sign petition
Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights — another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · Dec 10
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights is inherently social and political.

Yet the current funding environment sidelines this reality, privileging what's apolitical, say @khosla.bsky.social @pascaleallotey.bsky.social Sofia Gruskin #SRHR #HumanRightsDay
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
A demonstration of condoms in a school

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 10
Lots of BUZZ but smartphone bans alone fail to equip children for healthy use of technology. Focus should shift to a rights based approach, argue experts in @bmj.com
Approaches to children’s smartphone and social media use must go beyond bans
Supporting the healthy development of children requires an approach to smartphone and social media use underpinned by age appropriate design and education, argue Victoria Goodyear and colleagues Chi...
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · Dec 10
6/ You can read the full paper here:
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Contribution and influence of social capital on corruption in the health sector: a view through the lens of service users
Background The interplay between social capital and health system corruption in healthcare systems is underexplored, yet vital, a major barrier to advancing universal health coverage is underexplored....
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
You should convert this interesting thread and post it as a rapid response to the Analysis

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
I hear you. I sure as heck would not ask my GP about sports medicine or my performance goals. For health and fitness, social media is king but so too do we need more scrutiny of claims & financial COIs, more responsibility from platforms & more sophistication in how we define problem & solutions

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
Yes! This is what Tina Purnat has been arguing incisively (and more) about the nature of information environments. Check out her work.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
And because biased or misleading advice from influencers - amplified by parasocial bonds and direct engagement - can cause harm...

Governments and platforms have responsibilities and must act:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Responding to public health challenges of medical advice from social media influencers
Raffael Heiss and colleagues argue that influencers’ medical advice is often shaped by multiple biases and suggest how to reduce the associated risks Social media influencers have become powerful in ...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Dec 5
Medical advice from influencers is vexed by their lack of expertise, financial interests & industry influence

What to do?! NEW @bmj.com some answers.

We are not paying enough attention to the complexity & nuance of information environments where trust can grow
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Health information in age of social media and influence
Improving health discourse needs attention to information environments where trust can grow. Social media influencers have entered the healthcare conversation. Raffael Heiss and colleagues’ analysis ...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · Dec 4
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MEDPAGETODAY® Public Health & Policy > General Professional Issues The Importance of Humility in Medicine — Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, talks with Marty Makary about the 'information ecosystem,' writing books, and the importance of humility by Greg Laub, Director, Video, MedPage Today August 27, 2020 Last Updated June 15, 2021

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · Nov 25
The 2nd installment of our #GenAI series in @bmj.com asks what the introduction of AI tools into the doctor-patient relationship does to patient-centred care, safety, ethics and trust #MustRead
bmj.com The BMJ @bmj.com · Nov 25
Charlotte Blease & co show how AI can expand patient access & autonomy, when the right safeguards are in place

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#PatientSafety
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