Adrian Davis
@2760.bsky.social
Faculty of Public Health Bazalgette Professor - Champion of Evidence Award (2025-27): interests in road transport, necessity of intersectoral collaboration, co-benefits, importance of, & access to, robust peer reviewed evidence.
So, let's support such initiatives as this one from Transform Scotland transform.scot/2025/08/27/w...
Why fly to London when the train emits 90% less carbon? - Transform Scotland
Today we’ve launched Why Fly? – a new website urging Scotland’s public bodies and businesses to shift travel between Scotland’s Central Belt and London from air to rail. You can...
transform.scot
August 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
So, let's support such initiatives as this one from Transform Scotland transform.scot/2025/08/27/w...
So many. Just mention this, timeless and poignant:
It's not what you're born with
It's what you choose to bear
It's not how big your share is
It's how much you can share
It's not the fights you dreamed of
It's those you really fought
It's not what you're given
It's what you do with what you've got
It's not what you're born with
It's what you choose to bear
It's not how big your share is
It's how much you can share
It's not the fights you dreamed of
It's those you really fought
It's not what you're given
It's what you do with what you've got
July 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So many. Just mention this, timeless and poignant:
It's not what you're born with
It's what you choose to bear
It's not how big your share is
It's how much you can share
It's not the fights you dreamed of
It's those you really fought
It's not what you're given
It's what you do with what you've got
It's not what you're born with
It's what you choose to bear
It's not how big your share is
It's how much you can share
It's not the fights you dreamed of
It's those you really fought
It's not what you're given
It's what you do with what you've got
Horrendous decision, following multiples of such decisions for decades. Motonormativity - single word but created to capture cultural blind spots about car harms. What do we need to do? Address biases that decision makers have, including judges/Courts... www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/10.1504/...
Motonormativity: how social norms hide a major public health hazard | International Journal of Environment and Health
Decisions about motor transport, by individuals and policy-makers, show unconscious biases due to cultural assumptions about the role of private cars - a phenomenon we term motonormativity. To explore...
www.inderscienceonline.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Horrendous decision, following multiples of such decisions for decades. Motonormativity - single word but created to capture cultural blind spots about car harms. What do we need to do? Address biases that decision makers have, including judges/Courts... www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/10.1504/...
If CDoH is a new sort-of 3 letter TLA then it's Commercial Determinants of Health. Think 'Big Tobacco' and the fight to protect health from tobacco harms. On Transport - just the same in the sense of range of harms and limited control of, and a 'David v Goliath' battle, in this case with 'big auto'
May 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If CDoH is a new sort-of 3 letter TLA then it's Commercial Determinants of Health. Think 'Big Tobacco' and the fight to protect health from tobacco harms. On Transport - just the same in the sense of range of harms and limited control of, and a 'David v Goliath' battle, in this case with 'big auto'
This is genocide. The World must act to end this atrocity. Please write, petition, and do anything to make 'leaders' act to end this genocide in Gaza.
May 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is genocide. The World must act to end this atrocity. Please write, petition, and do anything to make 'leaders' act to end this genocide in Gaza.