Rachel Thomson
rachelthomson.bsky.social
Rachel Thomson
@rachelthomson.bsky.social
Public Health is my jam (and my day job) but opinions are my own. Clinical Lecturer, Public Health Registrar, and current NHS Clinical AI Fellow.
🚨 New paper: Our systematic review evaluating current practice in measuring environmental sustainability impacts of AI in radiology is now published in BMJ Digital Health and AI: doi.org/10.1136/bmjd...

Key findings below 👇 [1/5]
Evaluating the environmental sustainability of AI in radiology: a systematic review of current practice
Objective Data-heavy and energy-heavy artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being applied in healthcare, particularly for clinical imaging, often without consideration of their en...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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DON'T MISS: "Defining income as a causal exposure" with @igelstorm.bsky.social at 3pm (GMT) on 20th Jan 2025.

The first in the 2025 Turing Causal Inference Interest Group Seminar Series!

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January 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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📣 New article just in time for Christmas! 🎁

Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being

doi.org/10.1136/jech...

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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of clim...
doi.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Having finally made the leap over here, feels like as good a time as any to publicise this recent podcast where I was interviewed about our research modelling how #UniversalBasicIncome might influence #MentalHealth in the UK! '15 Minutes on Health Inequalities', wherever you get your podcasts 🎙
For World #MentalHealth Day here is a reminder of recent podcasts in our series that cover this topic:
4.6 The impact of #UniversalBasicIncome on mental health inequalities
3.4 Universal credit
2.4 The mental health of carers
December 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM