Sarah Briggs
@sarahbriggs.bsky.social
NIHR clinical lecturer, academic oncologist researching environmentally sustainable healthcare, University of Oxford. Sustainability, planetary health, climate, ethics, oncology, genomics.
Also novice pianist, book-lover, allotment noob, northerner.
Also novice pianist, book-lover, allotment noob, northerner.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Excited to be in Rotterdam for #PHAM25. Fab train journey here (frantically finishing my poster), and loving the waterways and bike lanes. So many fantastic speakers, it’s going to be a great week!
#academictravel #planetaryhealth
#academictravel #planetaryhealth
October 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to be in Rotterdam for #PHAM25. Fab train journey here (frantically finishing my poster), and loving the waterways and bike lanes. So many fantastic speakers, it’s going to be a great week!
#academictravel #planetaryhealth
#academictravel #planetaryhealth
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New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet
Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices,
and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...
www.thelancet.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Climate and food scientists: Hey everyone, here's a massive report showing how we need to make radical changes to our diet to avoid environmental catastrophe, but if we did it we could have amazing health benefits!
UK media:
UK media:
a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Climate and food scientists: Hey everyone, here's a massive report showing how we need to make radical changes to our diet to avoid environmental catastrophe, but if we did it we could have amazing health benefits!
UK media:
UK media:
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yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
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Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.
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Results are in! 💚 @nnuh.bsky.social #GreenTeam saved £481k & 109,297 kgCO2e 🌍
🏆 Winner: Hand Unit — Greener Surgery
✨ Highly commended: ED — Slow IV push antibiotics
Sustainable care = better care for patients & staff 🙌 #SusQI #NetZeroNHS
🏆 Winner: Hand Unit — Greener Surgery
✨ Highly commended: ED — Slow IV push antibiotics
Sustainable care = better care for patients & staff 🙌 #SusQI #NetZeroNHS
September 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Results are in! 💚 @nnuh.bsky.social #GreenTeam saved £481k & 109,297 kgCO2e 🌍
🏆 Winner: Hand Unit — Greener Surgery
✨ Highly commended: ED — Slow IV push antibiotics
Sustainable care = better care for patients & staff 🙌 #SusQI #NetZeroNHS
🏆 Winner: Hand Unit — Greener Surgery
✨ Highly commended: ED — Slow IV push antibiotics
Sustainable care = better care for patients & staff 🙌 #SusQI #NetZeroNHS
Very excited to be joining @reubencollege.bsky.social as a Research Fellow in Environmental Change. Can't wait to meet and learn from colleagues and students from diverse disciplines, and feeling very lucky to be part of such a forward looking and vibrant college community. 🎉
September 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Very excited to be joining @reubencollege.bsky.social as a Research Fellow in Environmental Change. Can't wait to meet and learn from colleagues and students from diverse disciplines, and feeling very lucky to be part of such a forward looking and vibrant college community. 🎉
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Join us and @gchuoxford.bsky.social on 24th September @kelloggoxford.bsky.social for our event, The Future of Low Carbon Health and Care.
Further information and registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
Further information and registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Join us and @gchuoxford.bsky.social on 24th September @kelloggoxford.bsky.social for our event, The Future of Low Carbon Health and Care.
Further information and registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
Further information and registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
Outdated rules, minimal checks… feels like a recurrent story for UK environment, with predictable impacts on nature and human health
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Outdated rules, minimal checks… feels like a recurrent story for UK environment, with predictable impacts on nature and human health
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And potentially reducing environmental impact in addition I would presume… radiology has significant emissions related to machine use and data storage, amongst other factors. There’s a real need to rationalise this, would be great to see in this editorial/paper…
#sustainablehealthcare #radiology
#sustainablehealthcare #radiology
Editorial: The PRIME trial establishes biparametric MRI as a viable alternative to multiparametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis, offering reduced time, cost, and invasiveness.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And potentially reducing environmental impact in addition I would presume… radiology has significant emissions related to machine use and data storage, amongst other factors. There’s a real need to rationalise this, would be great to see in this editorial/paper…
#sustainablehealthcare #radiology
#sustainablehealthcare #radiology
Love this time of year, when every run is punctuated by stops to collect these lovelies. Anyone else’s pockets full at the end of every outing?!
September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Love this time of year, when every run is punctuated by stops to collect these lovelies. Anyone else’s pockets full at the end of every outing?!
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Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨
We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.
More detail below and in 🧵
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theconversation.com/politicians-...
We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.
More detail below and in 🧵
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theconversation.com/politicians-...
Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨
We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.
More detail below and in 🧵
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theconversation.com/politicians-...
We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay.
More detail below and in 🧵
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theconversation.com/politicians-...
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bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Green Decision Making from an ethical perspective: here's some systematic overview:
Green Decision Making from an ethical perspective: here's some systematic overview:
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons - BMC Medical Ethics
Healthcare systems worldwide are large emitters of greenhouse gases and contribute to the worsening climate crisis. Attempts to reduce emissions are already being made at various levels of the healthc...
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Green Decision Making from an ethical perspective: here's some systematic overview:
Green Decision Making from an ethical perspective: here's some systematic overview:
New paper! We take a critical look at co-benefits approaches to environmentally sustainable healthcare, based on a series of 12 focus groups we held with members of the public across the UK. Full paper now Sociology of Health & Illness. Key findings 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
UK Public Focus Groups on Healthcare's Environmental Impacts: A Critical Analysis of Co‐Benefits Approaches
The urgency of addressing climate change has accelerated the need for healthcare to mitigate its associated environmental harms. Co-benefits approaches are being used in policymaking to frame mitigat...
doi.org
July 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
New paper! We take a critical look at co-benefits approaches to environmentally sustainable healthcare, based on a series of 12 focus groups we held with members of the public across the UK. Full paper now Sociology of Health & Illness. Key findings 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
May 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We still have a few spaces for our event with OxCODE, 'New vaccines that aim to prevent cancer: Starting the conversation', taking place on Monday 2nd June at St Anne's College, Oxford. Details & schedule can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cancer...
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
Email cpm@well.ox.ac.uk to book your place.
If you're interested in #sustainablehealthcare and responsible pharmaceuticals, and in Oxford on 12 June, this will be a really interesting discussion.
Hopefully see you there @sarashaw.bsky.social, thanks for the heads up!
Hopefully see you there @sarashaw.bsky.social, thanks for the heads up!
Greening the pharmaceutical sector - rhetoric or reality?
Pls join us on 12 June for a much needed panel discussion and debate.
Details and registration via the link below👇
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...
@greentempleton.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@sarahbriggs.bsky.social
Pls join us on 12 June for a much needed panel discussion and debate.
Details and registration via the link below👇
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...
@greentempleton.bsky.social
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social
@sarahbriggs.bsky.social
Greening the pharmaceutical sector: rhetoric or reality?
Panel Discussion with representatives from across the pharmaceutical sector
The pharmaceutical sector is under increasing pressure to decarbonise supply chains, to mitigate the impacts of medicines o...
www.conted.ox.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you're interested in #sustainablehealthcare and responsible pharmaceuticals, and in Oxford on 12 June, this will be a really interesting discussion.
Hopefully see you there @sarashaw.bsky.social, thanks for the heads up!
Hopefully see you there @sarashaw.bsky.social, thanks for the heads up!
Really looking forward to this tomorrow! If you’d like to come follow the link below (in person, Oxford)
#genomics #geneticcounselling #denovo
#genomics #geneticcounselling #denovo
We're looking forward to this public engagement theatre event which is taking place from 2pm on Saturday 17th May
@StAnnesCollege.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2514127...
We still have a few places available if you'd like to join us, all of the details can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/making...
@StAnnesCollege.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2514127...
We still have a few places available if you'd like to join us, all of the details can be found here: cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/making...
New play to explore choice faced by parents of child with serious condition
A new play will tackle one of the most personal and difficult decisions many parents face.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Really looking forward to this tomorrow! If you’d like to come follow the link below (in person, Oxford)
#genomics #geneticcounselling #denovo
#genomics #geneticcounselling #denovo
We’re looking for 2 new Junior Research Fellows to join the @cpmoxford.bsky.social team from September. If you’re an early career academic (incl Dphils) interested in supporting the development of equitable and effective personalised medicine check out the advert. Deadline 16th May.
We have two vacancies for Junior Research Fellows to join the CPM team next academic year. Please repost and send to anyone who might be interested. shorturl.at/DOV5s
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We’re looking for 2 new Junior Research Fellows to join the @cpmoxford.bsky.social team from September. If you’re an early career academic (incl Dphils) interested in supporting the development of equitable and effective personalised medicine check out the advert. Deadline 16th May.
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On the wards this week, medicines exposed to extreme temperatures above optimum storage conditions because the 1960s hospital buildings are not adapted to a changing climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour not protecting people, economy and homes from climate crisis, watchdog says
Plans to protect UK from extreme weather are inadequate, Climate Change Committee says in scathing assessment
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
On the wards this week, medicines exposed to extreme temperatures above optimum storage conditions because the 1960s hospital buildings are not adapted to a changing climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New paper claxon! 📢
In this paper we draw on care ethics to show how moral decision making around healthcare's environmental impact occurs in the context of relationships with others, not simply via top-down principles commonly discussed in the theoretical space.
More info/thoughts in thread👇
In this paper we draw on care ethics to show how moral decision making around healthcare's environmental impact occurs in the context of relationships with others, not simply via top-down principles commonly discussed in the theoretical space.
More info/thoughts in thread👇
Can care ethics help healthcare systems address their environmental harms? Findings from focus groups with members of the UK public
Bioethics scholars have become increasingly interested in moral questions associated with healthcare's environmental harms. Much of this scholarship h…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New paper claxon! 📢
In this paper we draw on care ethics to show how moral decision making around healthcare's environmental impact occurs in the context of relationships with others, not simply via top-down principles commonly discussed in the theoretical space.
More info/thoughts in thread👇
In this paper we draw on care ethics to show how moral decision making around healthcare's environmental impact occurs in the context of relationships with others, not simply via top-down principles commonly discussed in the theoretical space.
More info/thoughts in thread👇
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Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...
National Climate Impacts & Risk Meetings – Bristol Climate Dynamics Group
www.climatebristol.org
April 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...
Super paper from some super talented colleagues… CMV positivity related to better outcomes and lower toxicity with PD1 blockade, and potential protection from MM development. Lots of interesting avenues to follow and very relevant to treatment stratification 👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Proud of my group and collaborators for this work published today in Nature Medicine. We find Cytomegalovirus, which has a profound impact on T cell immunity, is associated with distinct clinical outcomes in patients receiving checkpoint immunotherapy for melanoma.
Proud of my group and collaborators for this work published today in Nature Medicine. We find Cytomegalovirus, which has a profound impact on T cell immunity, is associated with distinct clinical outcomes in patients receiving checkpoint immunotherapy for melanoma.
CMV serostatus is associated with improved survival and delayed toxicity onset following anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade - Nature Medicine
Analysis of multiple cohorts of patients with melanoma demonstrates a positive association between cytomegalovirus serostatus and overall survival in patients treated with monotherapy but not combinat...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Super paper from some super talented colleagues… CMV positivity related to better outcomes and lower toxicity with PD1 blockade, and potential protection from MM development. Lots of interesting avenues to follow and very relevant to treatment stratification 👏