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Ivana Paccoud
@ipaccoud.bsky.social
Researcher interested in digital health, social determinants of health and patient-centred healthcare systems

@UniLuxembourg 🇱🇺
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An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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So, governments wanting to improve the health of the population must focus as much, or more, on social determinants of ill-health as on genome. Healthy affordable diet, adequate income, housing security, less air pollution, improved social cohesiveness, reduced smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption.
Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?

Thoughts, #medsky?
June 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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🧪I can’t even begin to describe this situation. Institutions are facing funding cuts. Scientists can’t work. Harvard faces losing its non-profit status. Scientists coming here are canceling trips. Bobby thinks he can find the cause of autism.
Broken is the word.
www.nature.com/articlesd415...
‘Totally broken’: how Trump 2.0 has paralysed work at US science agencies
Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🧵Delighted to share a new guest post by Dr Anne Toomey on **8 things scientists can do right now to stand up for science in the US**

Thread of her *evidence-based* actions follows, whole post here
christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin... 1/11
Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment
A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".
christinapagel.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
January 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Interested in how to use non-experimental data to answer causal research questions? Mystified by DAGs and counterfactuals? Want to learn what Target Trial Emulation is all about?

Sign up now for the 2nd edition of our summer school, 7-11 July in Utrecht, with @vanamsterdam.bsky.social & BPdeVries
Introduction to Causal Inference and Causal Data Science | Utrecht Summer School
The course takes an interdisciplinary approach and is suitable for applied researchers across health, social and behavioural sciences.
utrechtsummerschool.nl
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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“globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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Scientists should stop arguing about whether science is political and get on with defending science against increasingly powerful attacks on it, which, yes, means scientists should be political advocates 🔥🔥
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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@nihrarcs.bsky.social webinar: 'the invisible labour of #PublicInvolvement' with me & Stan Papoulias, chaired by @elspethma.bsky.social. Thurs 5/12/24 15:30-17:00
Info & booking: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Fcz7CzBW2u...
@arceastofengland.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social
@penarc.bsky.social #PPI
November 19, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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Like podcasts? Interested in tackling inequality and building a fairer society? We've just published 21 events with @policyatkings.bsky.social as podcasts, featuring Torsten Bell, Sam Freedman, Ingrid Robeyns, Will Hutton, Minouche Shafik, Liam Byrne, Kate Pickett, Danny Dorling and many others...
Podcast
We don’t really have a podcast. But we do publish audio recordings of our events (the ‘Fair Society’ series with the Policy Institute at King’s College London) on all major podcast platforms.
fairnessfoundation.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Want to do a PhD in health inequalities?

The first 3 of our new Equalise Centre studentships are open for applications.

Details here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 17, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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Republicans: We don’t know enough about Kamala & we just don’t trust her.

Also Republicans: We know Trump and Gaetz are rapists & we just don’t care.
November 16, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Good morning from beautiful Lisbon! #EPH2024
November 13, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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The Future Healthcare Journal debate focuses on whether AI might replace clinical decision-making in our lifetimes.

Please read and vote (second link)

And please share to convince RCP that Bluesky is the future!

#MedSky #AI

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The FHJ debate: Will artificial intelligence replace clinical decision making within our lifetimes?
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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A new starter pack

Women commenting on a range of topics relating to health, care and the determinants of health and inequalities.

go.bsky.app/FDUBGFf
November 3, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Hi!!! I am SO EXCITED to see so many new #medsky and #publichealth folks (& health-interested folks) here.

Please introduce yourself to the rest of us. 🛟🩺📊🧪 This is a pretty great community and it is getting more robust by the day.
November 8, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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I seek an incoming PhD Student to work with me & 2 other Duke faculty on aging, disability, equity, complex care, long-term care-full funding. A tailored program that builds rigorous causal inference skills and multiple research opportunities. #healthpolicy populationhealth.duke.edu/education/ph...
PhD in Population Health Sciences | Duke Department of Population Health Sciences
populationhealth.duke.edu
September 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Visiting fellowship in the Ethics of AI at University of Oxford:
#academicsky
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
Visiting Fellowship Policy | Ethics in AIUp arrow
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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For those moving from Twitter to Bluesky the #SkyFollowerBridge extension for Chrome and Firefox is a very easy way to find people who you followed on Twitter.

Download and run the extension with your Twitter 'following' page open, and it finds suggested matches to follow (with a click) on Bluesky!
October 14, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Latest Marmot report describes structural racism and links it with inequalities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London, report shows
Exclusive: Review finds poverty and daily racism result in poor mental and physical health for some ethnic groups
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2024 at 6:46 PM