Greg Fell
@felly500.bsky.social
DPH Sheffield Council.
President ADPHUK.
Barely active climber and below average cyclist. Fond of - 80s thrash metal.
Blog - https://gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/
President ADPHUK.
Barely active climber and below average cyclist. Fond of - 80s thrash metal.
Blog - https://gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Commercial determinants of active travel: a crucial but overlooked barrier to health and sustainability
but NOBODY oppposes physical activity?
oh but they do
this is very good
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
but NOBODY oppposes physical activity?
oh but they do
this is very good
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Commercial determinants of active travel: a crucial but overlooked barrier to health and sustainability
but NOBODY oppposes physical activity?
oh but they do
this is very good
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
but NOBODY oppposes physical activity?
oh but they do
this is very good
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Rise in Early-Onset Cancer in the US Population - More Apparent Than Real
Epidemiology 101
All screening does harm, some screening does good etc
Here is a telling example of harm
And we wonder why there is a crisis in workload and workforce in cancer care
The Rise in Early-Onset Cancer in the US Population - More Apparent Than Real
Epidemiology 101
All screening does harm, some screening does good etc
Here is a telling example of harm
And we wonder why there is a crisis in workload and workforce in cancer care
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Rise in Early-Onset Cancer in the US Population - More Apparent Than Real
Epidemiology 101
All screening does harm, some screening does good etc
Here is a telling example of harm
And we wonder why there is a crisis in workload and workforce in cancer care
The Rise in Early-Onset Cancer in the US Population - More Apparent Than Real
Epidemiology 101
All screening does harm, some screening does good etc
Here is a telling example of harm
And we wonder why there is a crisis in workload and workforce in cancer care
Food industry corporate greenwashing
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/10/food...
Comparing promises ("we will be good", "we care") with actions
"food companies have no market incentive to reduce their environmental impact if it is going to raise their costs".
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/10/food...
Comparing promises ("we will be good", "we care") with actions
"food companies have no market incentive to reduce their environmental impact if it is going to raise their costs".
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Food industry corporate greenwashing
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/10/food...
Comparing promises ("we will be good", "we care") with actions
"food companies have no market incentive to reduce their environmental impact if it is going to raise their costs".
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/10/food...
Comparing promises ("we will be good", "we care") with actions
"food companies have no market incentive to reduce their environmental impact if it is going to raise their costs".
Same storm different boats
hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/same-st...
@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social
Want to know how a public health team works in the middle of a pandemic? This is about as good a telling of the story as you'll find anywhere.
hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/same-st...
@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social
Want to know how a public health team works in the middle of a pandemic? This is about as good a telling of the story as you'll find anywhere.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Same storm different boats
hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/same-st...
@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social
Want to know how a public health team works in the middle of a pandemic? This is about as good a telling of the story as you'll find anywhere.
hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/same-st...
@jasonstrelitz.bsky.social
Want to know how a public health team works in the middle of a pandemic? This is about as good a telling of the story as you'll find anywhere.
Just binge read
By a country mile the most frightening thing I've ever read
By a country mile the most frightening thing I've ever read
October 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Just binge read
By a country mile the most frightening thing I've ever read
By a country mile the most frightening thing I've ever read
Theres soon to be a test on whether those who opine about screening actually understand the principles on which screening programmes are based
Get your revision done
In the meantime here is a masterclass from Prof Baum
(More advanced classes are available)
Get your revision done
In the meantime here is a masterclass from Prof Baum
(More advanced classes are available)
October 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Theres soon to be a test on whether those who opine about screening actually understand the principles on which screening programmes are based
Get your revision done
In the meantime here is a masterclass from Prof Baum
(More advanced classes are available)
Get your revision done
In the meantime here is a masterclass from Prof Baum
(More advanced classes are available)
GBD updated
A gift
microsite:
www.thelancet.com/gbd
Cause & risk summary:
www.healthdata.org/gbd-tool-acc...
Data viz:
ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2023
Country profiles:
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
That AMAZING data viz tool looks to have been updated
vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
A gift
microsite:
www.thelancet.com/gbd
Cause & risk summary:
www.healthdata.org/gbd-tool-acc...
Data viz:
ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2023
Country profiles:
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
That AMAZING data viz tool looks to have been updated
vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
October 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
GBD updated
A gift
microsite:
www.thelancet.com/gbd
Cause & risk summary:
www.healthdata.org/gbd-tool-acc...
Data viz:
ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2023
Country profiles:
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
That AMAZING data viz tool looks to have been updated
vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
A gift
microsite:
www.thelancet.com/gbd
Cause & risk summary:
www.healthdata.org/gbd-tool-acc...
Data viz:
ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2023
Country profiles:
www.healthdata.org/research-ana...
That AMAZING data viz tool looks to have been updated
vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
Good review this
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Good review this
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
Good review this
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Good review this
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Diagnostic thresholds and cut offs – expand disease definitions and drive treatment with ever decreasing benefit (but risks and costs are linear). See table
Pathologizing behaviours (with little prospect of benefit)
2/
Pathologizing behaviours (with little prospect of benefit)
2/
August 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Diagnostic thresholds and cut offs – expand disease definitions and drive treatment with ever decreasing benefit (but risks and costs are linear). See table
Pathologizing behaviours (with little prospect of benefit)
2/
Pathologizing behaviours (with little prospect of benefit)
2/
Done my duty and been to pay homage at the shrine of the metal gods
August 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Done my duty and been to pay homage at the shrine of the metal gods
Hard to believe this isn't a parody PMI account
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hard to believe this isn't a parody PMI account
The most impressive COI statement I've ever seen
July 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The most impressive COI statement I've ever seen
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Air quality
Physical activity
KSI
Net disbenefit health wise
Obviously didn't consider congestion
(& a range of other health impacts)
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Air quality
Physical activity
KSI
Net disbenefit health wise
Obviously didn't consider congestion
(& a range of other health impacts)
July 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Population health, health equity and health system impacts of light vehicle electrification
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Air quality
Physical activity
KSI
Net disbenefit health wise
Obviously didn't consider congestion
(& a range of other health impacts)
jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Air quality
Physical activity
KSI
Net disbenefit health wise
Obviously didn't consider congestion
(& a range of other health impacts)
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
once more......
where is the harm
public health approaches to gambling
the final chapter was particularly interesting
once more......
where is the harm
public health approaches to gambling
the final chapter was particularly interesting
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
once more......
where is the harm
public health approaches to gambling
the final chapter was particularly interesting
once more......
where is the harm
public health approaches to gambling
the final chapter was particularly interesting
Highlight of my day yesterday was looking at the old books in @rsph.bsky.social towers
"Therefore it is enacted that butchers shall not slay beasts within the walls of London"
......The start of modern food safety laws
"Therefore it is enacted that butchers shall not slay beasts within the walls of London"
......The start of modern food safety laws
June 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Highlight of my day yesterday was looking at the old books in @rsph.bsky.social towers
"Therefore it is enacted that butchers shall not slay beasts within the walls of London"
......The start of modern food safety laws
"Therefore it is enacted that butchers shall not slay beasts within the walls of London"
......The start of modern food safety laws
Genius from my old mate Frank
June 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Genius from my old mate Frank
academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
We must be clear: public health is not only healthcare. It is the population-level infrastructure
It is the field that addresses misinformation, monitors risk, supports mental health, reduces exposure to environmental hazards, and fosters societal trust
We must be clear: public health is not only healthcare. It is the population-level infrastructure
It is the field that addresses misinformation, monitors risk, supports mental health, reduces exposure to environmental hazards, and fosters societal trust
June 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
We must be clear: public health is not only healthcare. It is the population-level infrastructure
It is the field that addresses misinformation, monitors risk, supports mental health, reduces exposure to environmental hazards, and fosters societal trust
We must be clear: public health is not only healthcare. It is the population-level infrastructure
It is the field that addresses misinformation, monitors risk, supports mental health, reduces exposure to environmental hazards, and fosters societal trust
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The changing spectrum of cardiovascular diseases
Useful epi article
The changing spectrum of cardiovascular diseases
Useful epi article
June 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The changing spectrum of cardiovascular diseases
Useful epi article
The changing spectrum of cardiovascular diseases
Useful epi article
Madras has had babies
Coq, Au, Vin, and Chasseur
Coq, Au, Vin, and Chasseur
June 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Madras has had babies
Coq, Au, Vin, and Chasseur
Coq, Au, Vin, and Chasseur
This is the price of all those "life saving" medicines we are introducing
The opportunity cost has to fall somewhere
Here is one of those places
Siri ..... tell me again about "allocative efficiency"......
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...
The opportunity cost has to fall somewhere
Here is one of those places
Siri ..... tell me again about "allocative efficiency"......
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...
May 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is the price of all those "life saving" medicines we are introducing
The opportunity cost has to fall somewhere
Here is one of those places
Siri ..... tell me again about "allocative efficiency"......
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...
The opportunity cost has to fall somewhere
Here is one of those places
Siri ..... tell me again about "allocative efficiency"......
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the...
Do you know what else reduces risk of MI and Stroke? Lifting weights and sweating more whilst reducing consumption of Big Macs.
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May 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do you know what else reduces risk of MI and Stroke? Lifting weights and sweating more whilst reducing consumption of Big Macs.
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