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Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧
@pauljbelcher.bsky.social
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European Public Health Advocate 🔹Fellow, Royal College of Physicians🔹EU Advisor, EurohealthNet🔹Member, Faculty of Public Health - European Public Health Association🔹Advisory Committee, European Health Forum

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🇺🇸 “Politicized” #Science and Attacks on #PublicHealth - Negative Impacts for Health and health workers

#RFKJr says his job “is to eliminate politics from science,” but his actions are the opposite

Writes @joeamon.bsky.social in @hhrjournal.bsky.social

www.hhrjournal.org/2025/09/18/p...
September 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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🚨 One week to go: 2025 European Health Forum @gasteinforum.bsky.social

#SolidarityInHealth
#HealthInequalities
#WomensHealth, #PrimaryHealthcare, #SocialPrescribing, #AI, #LungHealth, #NCDs, #ClimateChange
#HealthSecurity

🆓 Free online registration

www.ehfg.org

#EHFG2025
September 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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🇬🇧 The Brits who beat #Brexit: #Gibraltar celebrates its return to #Europe

🇪🇺 Nearly a decade after Britain quit the #EU, British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will gain full travel & commercial access under a treaty

🇬🇮 Via @helengibbons.bsky.social

archive.ph/2025.09.13-1...
September 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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📣 Registration open for 2025 European Health Forum @gasteinforum.bsky.social

#Solidarity #Inequalities #PublicHealth

🗣️ With @who.int
@eurohealthnet.bsky.social
@carocostongs.bsky.social
@obshealth.bsky.social
@ecdc.europa.eu
@mentalhealtheurope.bsky.social
@feantsa.bsky.social

www.ehfg.org
July 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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#Trump’s hopes of winning #NobelPeacePrize in doubt

‘Just for fun, let’s give it to Obama again’

#Banx in @financialtimes.com

www.ft.com/content/0fe5...
June 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🚨Today's @euobserver.com: Conservative and far-right members of European Parliament set up scrutiny group in latest attack on European #NGOs

"If this new scrutiny body was really about transparency, MEPs would have extended its mandate to #Lobbying by companies and commercial lobby shops"
June 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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🇪🇺 European teenagers turn away from #drugs and #alcohol but embrace #vaping and #gambling

The 2025 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs #ESPAD carried out by the European Union Drugs Agency #EUDA captures these dramatic changes in habits

www.euda.europa.eu/news/2025/ne...
May 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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🇪🇺 EU #GlobalHealth Policy Forum: "Health has become a matter of economic stability and competitiveness, but also security. Here, the European Commission will take this responsibility very seriously."

Speech by EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
May 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🏥 1 in 3 doctors in Europe are older than 55. Which countries are most at risk from ageing workforces?

'Poor work-life balance, high administrative burdens, and inadequate pay in some countries drive younger doctors to emigrate or leave the profession altogether.'

www.euronews.com/health/2025/...
May 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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#Appeasement: #Trump #Ukraine Peace Deal

'Let this be a warning to China. If they invade Taiwan they'll only be allowed to keep some of it'
April 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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🇪🇺 The trumping of EU health policy: Industry #Lobbying and #RightWing politics are blocking #PublicHealth progress in Brussels

🛑 MEPs fear industry influence over EU #tobacco laws

🛑 Europe’s mandatory #Alcohol labels delayed

🛑 EU #Funding cuts for health NGOs

www.linkedin.com/posts/pauljb...
April 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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📚 Bookshelf coincidence in Oxford today?
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#Greenland: “'If US stock markets keep falling we might be able to buy America soon' #TrumpTariffs
April 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#TrumpTariffs by Banxcartoons in @financialtimes.com

#Penguins #NorfolkIsland #HeardIsland #Trump
April 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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🆕 Improving #healthpromotion & preventive services for vulnerable #children #adolescents

🚨Multiple barriers stop vulnerable young people accessing services

🚨 Interventions in childhood vital but countries not investing enough

@obshealth.bsky.social

eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
April 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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🎙️Interview: #Trump's 'sustained campaign of attacks on US #universities and #science will take years to recover from’ and the impact will be ‘devastating’ primarily for the USA but also for #GlobalHealth

Professor @martinmckee.bsky.social of @lshtm.bsky.social

www.france24.com/en/video/202...
March 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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🇺🇳 Welcome #WHO chief @drtedros.who.int to our growing #BlueSky health community

⬇️ Join the conversation with
@eurohealthnet.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social @gasteinforum.bsky.social @carocostongs.bsky.social @charlottemar.bsky.social @dorotasienkiewicz.bsky.social @who.int etc.

go.bsky.app/K2JB6CN
March 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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🇺🇸 #PublicHealthUnderThreat: Statement and Action by the American Public Health Association

“Under the #Trump administration, we have seen a slew of proposed public health policies that threaten to undermine decades of progress..But @apha.org is fighting back”

www.apha.org/topics-and-i...
March 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🇪🇺 Put healthcare and investing in health at the heart of the EU’s new emphasis on competitiveness, says EU Health Coalition

🚨 Five key recommendations to boost Europe’s competitiveness, strengthen its health workforce, and ensure long-term health security.

www.euractiv.com/section/heal...
March 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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🚨Statement: Action for #GlobalHealth calls for ‘Immediate Reversal’ of #UKAid cut from 0.5% of GNI to 0.3% to pay for increased #defence spending

“Cuts to UK aid undermine efforts to achieve international stability, which in turn fuels further conflict”

actionforglobalhealth.org.uk/aid-budgets-...
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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#Tesla sales in Europe are sliding

Sales in Germany and France tanked in January, dropping 59% and 63%

“Some of Tesla's rivals in Europe are now targeting owners put off by Musk's politics.”

And new Tesla guerrilla advertising appears in London

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
February 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🆕 LSE Health Annual Lecture: #SocialJustice & #HealthEquity

🗣️ Prof. Sir Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social argues that the need to reduce #inequalities in health is a matter of social justice

🗓️ Monday 17 March 18.30 - 20.00

@lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social

www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
February 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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⏰ Webinar today at 1400: Has the EU forgotten health in it's new mantra of 'competitiveness'?

"Health has been neglected or at best considered as a means to achieve higher productivity."

Discussion today with @eurohealthnet.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.de/e/feast-poli...
January 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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✍️ A timeless multi-use quote from the past which seems as relevant today as ever - From ‘The Praise of Folly’ by Desiderius Erasmus
January 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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🇪🇺 Words to action: Report on all the commitments made by the new EU Commissioners

‘I will step up our work on preventive health, to ensure a comprehensive approach to #HealthPromotion and #DiseasePrevention"

- EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare

www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
January 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM