Chris Dye
@christopherdye.bsky.social
Professor of Epidemiology (Emeritus) at University of Oxford, formerly Director of Strategy at the World Health Organization
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Empire empiring, always.
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Empire empiring, always.
Well, that's a surprise...
July 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Well, that's a surprise...
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Action for healthier working lives - Final report of the Commission for Healthier Working Lives
www.health.org.uk/sites/defaul...
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March 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Action for healthier working lives - Final report of the Commission for Healthier Working Lives
www.health.org.uk/sites/defaul...
www.health.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Wearing a car seatbelt, an icon of #prevention, became mandatory in the UK on this day in 1983 academic.oup.com/book/59012
Investing in Health and Wellbeing: When Prevention is Better than Cure
Abstract. The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident—and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting or improving health. Resolution
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January 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Wearing a car seatbelt, an icon of #prevention, became mandatory in the UK on this day in 1983 academic.oup.com/book/59012
Reposted by Chris Dye
These stats are frankly bonkers. If anybody is complaining about why they are waiting to see a GP. They need to ask why successive governments have not supported the same growth in GP numbers as it has hospital medic numbers.
Agree @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social or just going to sit & watch the end
Agree @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social or just going to sit & watch the end
January 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
These stats are frankly bonkers. If anybody is complaining about why they are waiting to see a GP. They need to ask why successive governments have not supported the same growth in GP numbers as it has hospital medic numbers.
Agree @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social or just going to sit & watch the end
Agree @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social or just going to sit & watch the end
An ideal stocking-filler for the season of giving: a non-exclusive, non-rivalrous, infinitely and indefinitely, free public good... academic.oup.com/book/59012
Investing in Health and Wellbeing: When Prevention is Better than Cure
Abstract. The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident—and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting or improving health. Resolution
academic.oup.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
An ideal stocking-filler for the season of giving: a non-exclusive, non-rivalrous, infinitely and indefinitely, free public good... academic.oup.com/book/59012
Investing in #Health and #Wellbeing, with some ideas about how to make #prevention better than cure. http://tinyurl.com/2p6ssd6y (out on October 15)
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Investing in #Health and #Wellbeing, with some ideas about how to make #prevention better than cure. http://tinyurl.com/2p6ssd6y (out on October 15)
Should we worry about a growing threat from "bird flu"? https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1199
Should we worry about a growing threat from “bird flu”?
A major human outbreak of H5N1 is plausible, and the risk...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Should we worry about a growing threat from "bird flu"? https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1199
An understated yet stunning indictment of much of contemporary politics... Plato and the Idea of Political Office https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/plato-office
Plato and the Idea of Political Office
Is politics merely a gaslighting of the oppressed, a cloa...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
An understated yet stunning indictment of much of contemporary politics... Plato and the Idea of Political Office https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/plato-office
Will the pandemic treaty make it over the line? https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q395
Will the pandemic treaty make it over the line?
This is the question that is on the lips of many people w...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Will the pandemic treaty make it over the line? https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q395
Is there an ideal #OneHealth Curriculum? https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uuwhm-1560feb
Research Directions: Is there an ideal One Health Curricu...
In this podcast conversation, Craig Steven, Executive Dir...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Is there an ideal #OneHealth Curriculum? https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-uuwhm-1560feb
Middle-spotted woodpecker (?), an infrequent visitor to our Jura garden...
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Middle-spotted woodpecker (?), an infrequent visitor to our Jura garden...
What success looks like...
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
What success looks like...
A biologist's staircase - double helix at the Bourse du Commerce Paris
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
A biologist's staircase - double helix at the Bourse du Commerce Paris
Now it's cold in the Jura, they're back from the forest looking for seeds...
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Now it's cold in the Jura, they're back from the forest looking for seeds...
How public health works... A National Evil https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil
Jonah Goodman · A National Evil
At the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued b...
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November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
How public health works... A National Evil https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil
#Masks for #Covid &c yet again... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2400394-face-masks-ward-off-covid-19-so-why-are-we-still-arguing-about-it/
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still arguing...
The most recent review into the effectiveness of face mas...
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November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
“Given the powerful interests involved.... I don’t know why anyone thought that a statement of goals such as the SDGs would succeed.”
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02551-3
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02551-3
Reducing inequality benefits everyone — so why isn’t it h...
Those urging world leaders to take action on inequality s...
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November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
“Given the powerful interests involved.... I don’t know why anyone thought that a statement of goals such as the SDGs would succeed.”
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02551-3
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02551-3
Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry...
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry...
I make polite requests of #chatgpt4. It tries to please me. Today it provided a list of books about #PublicHealth, with author and publication date. None of them exists, though they are all plausible. It has apologized, but cannot correct its error.
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I make polite requests of #chatgpt4. It tries to please me. Today it provided a list of books about #PublicHealth, with author and publication date. None of them exists, though they are all plausible. It has apologized, but cannot correct its error.
Today's nature note, Utrecht rail stn: young tawny owls are calling, even before completely breaking out of their egg shells
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Today's nature note, Utrecht rail stn: young tawny owls are calling, even before completely breaking out of their egg shells