Courtney McNamara
@drmcnamara.bsky.social
Lecturer of Public Health @ Newcastle University in NE England
Chair, Trade & Health Forum, @aphapublichealth.bsky.social
Health equity, macroeconomics, international trade, social determinants of health, commercial determinants of health
Chair, Trade & Health Forum, @aphapublichealth.bsky.social
Health equity, macroeconomics, international trade, social determinants of health, commercial determinants of health
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Courtney McNamara
@drmcnamara.bsky.social
· Feb 17
The Global Polycrisis and Health Inequalities - Courtney McNamara, Clare Bambra, 2025
In the current era of multiple, overlapping global crises, it is essential to consider the political economy of health within the broader framework of global in...
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In our new paper @profbambra.bsky.social and I argue that the ongoing #polycrisis has profound implications for global #publichealth, shaping health inequalities now and for future generations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
First quick look at the new UK Trade Strategy: zero mention of public health....
June 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
First quick look at the new UK Trade Strategy: zero mention of public health....
Was anyone else waiting for the UK trade strategy to drop at 9:15 only to be met with a website error? Is this... the first non-tariff barrier? 👀 @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Was anyone else waiting for the UK trade strategy to drop at 9:15 only to be met with a website error? Is this... the first non-tariff barrier? 👀 @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers, assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
Opinion | ‘Tasteless, Hideous and Repulsive’: Trump Wants You to Eat Inferior Tomatoes
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers, assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
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Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Breaking News: The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year as President Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce, the World Bank said.
World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.
trib.al
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Once again, the global economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Trump got what he wanted: everyone to stop gawping at his embarrassing fallout w/ Elon Musk..in the meantime, the world has learned something useful abt who wins in a standoff btwn 2 giant egos, 1 of whom has all the $ & the other of whom has all the exec. power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff
The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populism, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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June 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Trump got what he wanted: everyone to stop gawping at his embarrassing fallout w/ Elon Musk..in the meantime, the world has learned something useful abt who wins in a standoff btwn 2 giant egos, 1 of whom has all the $ & the other of whom has all the exec. power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Whether we’re doctors, scientists, or ordinary citizens, we need to be clear sighted—and to engage in whatever forms of resistance to authoritarianism we can find the courage to muster."
@johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
@johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
June 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Whether we’re doctors, scientists, or ordinary citizens, we need to be clear sighted—and to engage in whatever forms of resistance to authoritarianism we can find the courage to muster."
@johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
@johnlauner.bsky.social on the dissolution of our global political landscape
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
this is going to end with a 150% tariff on tweeting, isn't it.
June 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
June 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #sdoh
‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #sdoh
Trump evading the question over whether UK will now accept hormone treated beef
"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"
May 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Trump evading the question over whether UK will now accept hormone treated beef
"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"
May 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"we're very big, we have a lot of beef"
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This deal is completely being used to justify Trump’s mad tariff operation.
May 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This deal is completely being used to justify Trump’s mad tariff operation.
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So Sky news reports that the UK US trade deal announced today consists of "no physical UK-US trade document" that will be signed.
Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
May 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So Sky news reports that the UK US trade deal announced today consists of "no physical UK-US trade document" that will be signed.
Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
Trade deal is not a protected term. It really could be anything somehow related to trade. But I did not expect it to be invisible.
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Reporters are gathered and waiting for the 10 am WH trade announcement- which is clearly running late. I was told about an hour ago that details in the agreement were still changing, and no information was final until the actual event. So that could explain the hiccup here.
May 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reporters are gathered and waiting for the 10 am WH trade announcement- which is clearly running late. I was told about an hour ago that details in the agreement were still changing, and no information was final until the actual event. So that could explain the hiccup here.
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Alas, no. The press is reporting it as a "trade deal" & a "trade agreement" in the headlines, so everyone will believe that it is a legal deal/agreement. Total failure of journalism.
@financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:
@financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:
May 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Alas, no. The press is reporting it as a "trade deal" & a "trade agreement" in the headlines, so everyone will believe that it is a legal deal/agreement. Total failure of journalism.
@financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:
@financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @wsj.com @cnn.com:
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you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
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China's response:
- additional 34% tariffs on all US imports
- add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities”
- limits on exports of seven rare earth elements
- two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment
- block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports
- additional 34% tariffs on all US imports
- add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities”
- limits on exports of seven rare earth elements
- two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment
- block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports
Breaking News: China said it would impose a 34% tariff on U.S. imports, matching President Trump’s tariff on Chinese goods.
China Retaliates Against Trump With 34% Tariff on U.S. Goods
The Chinese government said it would match President Trump’s tariff, and also barred a group of American companies from doing business in China.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
China's response:
- additional 34% tariffs on all US imports
- add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities”
- limits on exports of seven rare earth elements
- two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment
- block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports
- additional 34% tariffs on all US imports
- add 11 US companies to list of “unreliable entities”
- limits on exports of seven rare earth elements
- two trade investigations into US exports of medical imaging equipment
- block some US chicken imports and sorghum imports
The potential health impacts of a UK-US free trade agreement goes way beyond chlorinated chicken: www.bmj.com/content/374/.... #sdoh #cdoh
The threat of a UK-US trade deal to managing non-communicable diseases
Courtney McNamara argues that a trade deal between the UK and US could limit the UK’s ability to manage non-communicable diseases unless the agreement includes public health safeguards
For over four ...
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April 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The potential health impacts of a UK-US free trade agreement goes way beyond chlorinated chicken: www.bmj.com/content/374/.... #sdoh #cdoh
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Important point
We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc
But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night
But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Important point
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This is the direct result of the inane fake "formula" they used to calculate tariff rates. It penalizes poor, export-dependent states who cannot afford large volumes of US exports and who have been forced by colonial and postcolonial economic structures into a dependence on primary commodity exports
Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world with gross domestic product (GDP) per head of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733 million of exports of vanilla, metals and apparel that it did with the U.S. last year.
Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the poor - www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
April 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is the direct result of the inane fake "formula" they used to calculate tariff rates. It penalizes poor, export-dependent states who cannot afford large volumes of US exports and who have been forced by colonial and postcolonial economic structures into a dependence on primary commodity exports
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On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform”
www.croakey.org/on-the-wider...
#SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol
With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others
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#SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol
With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others
On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform”
Introduction by Croakey: Last year, we published an article investigating whether "the cost of living crisis" that is so often
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March 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
On the wider determinants of health, people “are yearning for more substantial reform”
www.croakey.org/on-the-wider...
#SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol
With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others
www.croakey.org/on-the-wider...
#SDOH #ElectionBudget2025 #AusPol
With ACOSS, Climate Council, TasCOSS & others
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What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…
What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association Australia Preventive Health Conference 2025 'Prevention is Political'. At the end is a win-win scenario: you can continue to evidence or prevention as part of the world’s least exciting adventure game, and I can swerve a proper conclusion.
paulcairney.wordpress.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
What is politics? It involves much more than governments and elections
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…
Here is an introductory post to inform two talks: (1) on evidence for WHO Collaborating Centre for Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health, Tampere University, (2) on prevention for Public Health Association…
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Here’s a link to the 2016 Hassett/Sullivan paper which also shows that 45% of recessions happen in the first year after an election, linked in part to policy uncertainty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Policy Uncertainty and the Economy
This paper assesses the economics literature on policy uncertainty, addresses puzzles in that literature, and highlights pertinent empirical regularities. Altho
papers.ssrn.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Here’s a link to the 2016 Hassett/Sullivan paper which also shows that 45% of recessions happen in the first year after an election, linked in part to policy uncertainty. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
