Leah Shipton
@leahshipton.bsky.social
Term Assistant Professor at SFU School of Public Policy | I study the politics of global health & environmental governance | www.leahshipton.com
Happy to see our commentary out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org !
NEW opinion in PLOS Global Public Health by Prativa Baral, @leahshipton.bsky.social, Gatien de Broucker and Daniel Eisenkraft Klein:
Global health is in crisis: How can Canada contribute?
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Global health is in crisis: How can Canada contribute?
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Global health is in crisis: How can Canada contribute?
journals.plos.org
June 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Happy to see our commentary out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org !
Reposted by Leah Shipton
Measles cases in Ontario, by year:
2013: 15
2014: 22
2015: 20
2016: 7
2017: 7
2018: 8
2019: 14
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 1
2023: 7
2024: 64
2025: 804
And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years *combined*.
From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
2013: 15
2014: 22
2015: 20
2016: 7
2017: 7
2018: 8
2019: 14
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 1
2023: 7
2024: 64
2025: 804
And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years *combined*.
From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
April 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Measles cases in Ontario, by year:
2013: 15
2014: 22
2015: 20
2016: 7
2017: 7
2018: 8
2019: 14
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 1
2023: 7
2024: 64
2025: 804
And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years *combined*.
From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
2013: 15
2014: 22
2015: 20
2016: 7
2017: 7
2018: 8
2019: 14
2020: 0
2021: 0
2022: 1
2023: 7
2024: 64
2025: 804
And it's only April 10. Nearly 5x more than the previous 12 years *combined*.
From Public health Ontario: www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
Reposted by Leah Shipton
Alberta's expanded use of private surgical facilities isn't an attempt to support a struggling public system, argues academic Andrew Longhurst in Parkland's new report "Operation Profit." It's a deliberate and ideologically-motivated attempt to cannibalize it www.theprogressreport.ca/operation-pr...
Operation Profit report argues Alberta’s surgery privatization initiative is starving the public system to prove an ideological point
An interview with Andrew Longhurst about his report into private surgical facilities, "Operation Profit."
www.theprogressreport.ca
April 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Alberta's expanded use of private surgical facilities isn't an attempt to support a struggling public system, argues academic Andrew Longhurst in Parkland's new report "Operation Profit." It's a deliberate and ideologically-motivated attempt to cannibalize it www.theprogressreport.ca/operation-pr...
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So much punching down today. The highest tariffs imposed today were on Lesotho, a tiny mountainous African country whose primary wage industry is making clothes for Levi, Gap, Walmart and other brands. I’ve spent a lot of time in those factories, and let me tell you…
Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So much punching down today. The highest tariffs imposed today were on Lesotho, a tiny mountainous African country whose primary wage industry is making clothes for Levi, Gap, Walmart and other brands. I’ve spent a lot of time in those factories, and let me tell you…
Reposted by Leah Shipton
The US cuts off funding to GAVI, which provides a huge proportion of the vaccines needed by low-income countries, and to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, which (among many things) works to prevent spillover of dangerous pathogens from animals to humans.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The US cuts off funding to GAVI, which provides a huge proportion of the vaccines needed by low-income countries, and to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, which (among many things) works to prevent spillover of dangerous pathogens from animals to humans.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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Serious conflict of interest - obesity head at Novo Nordisk Fdn is a paid advisor to chocolate firm - & he has called into question the widely accepted classification system on ultraprocessed foods.
Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$
www.ft.com/content/4f36...
Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$
www.ft.com/content/4f36...
Novo Nordisk foundation’s obesity head works as paid adviser to chocolate maker Ferrero
Professor Arne Astrup is also involved in project to change widely-accepted definition of ultra-processed food
www.ft.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Serious conflict of interest - obesity head at Novo Nordisk Fdn is a paid advisor to chocolate firm - & he has called into question the widely accepted classification system on ultraprocessed foods.
Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$
www.ft.com/content/4f36...
Public health policies should be based on independent science - not $$
www.ft.com/content/4f36...
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Time to ACT UP (or pick your alternative), but the status quo of sporadic and small protests isn't going to move the needle. We need a united democratic front--mobilizing far more people--to beat this Administration. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
We Need to Turn Our Outrage Way Up
This is no time to sit idly by. People’s lives are at stake. We have to put our bodies on the line.
www.thenation.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Time to ACT UP (or pick your alternative), but the status quo of sporadic and small protests isn't going to move the needle. We need a united democratic front--mobilizing far more people--to beat this Administration. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review:
1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence)
2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.
1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence)
2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.
March 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
As @cpsjournal.bsky.social editor I read about 100 peer-reviews per month. A 🧵 on what makes a great review:
1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence)
2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.
1.) Succinct summary of the contribution (puzzle, argument, data, evidence)
2.) State clearly in your first paragraph whether the evidence supports the argument.
Yes! I'm working on a case study of medical oxygen governance during covid & engineers were crucial to navigating the learning curve. Also shows that the pandemic treaty must recognize the breadth of health professionals needed for pandemic PPR, as colleagues & I speak to here: tinyurl.com/5n7prych
November 20, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Yes! I'm working on a case study of medical oxygen governance during covid & engineers were crucial to navigating the learning curve. Also shows that the pandemic treaty must recognize the breadth of health professionals needed for pandemic PPR, as colleagues & I speak to here: tinyurl.com/5n7prych
Reposted by Leah Shipton
November 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Leah Shipton
A starting line up of global health folks who work across law, policy and ethics. There are many others to add - please share widely and suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1
go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1
November 10, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A starting line up of global health folks who work across law, policy and ethics. There are many others to add - please share widely and suggest additions!
go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1
go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1