Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD FFPH(Hon) FRSA
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health justice philosopher/ advocate/ advisor | work @KingsGHI @UJPhilosophy | Chair @IRG_GHJ | alum @BrownUniversity @SOAS @Harvard @Cambridge_Uni
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I made a philosophical argument for every human being's moral right to health. it provides philos basis for legal human right to health. Now seems like the time to get over my self-doubt. I will fight for this in post-pandemic world.
#covid19
#covidethics
#globalhealth
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It's not- ' first identified in South Africa '
It is- 'first identified by South Africans'
1st is pointing to a place, 2nd is pointing to the intellectual labor / discovery that was done.
let's help people see the difference.
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I'm slightly confused / alarmed at the make up of the faculty of Philosophy Dept at Ashoka Univ. - In India.
Can someone explain please?
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@GWR
I think the headlines support his thesis.
Looking forward to next level comms strategies.
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health justice/equity rhetoric is everywhere. which is great/not great. Think of 'human rights' since 90s peak
Got chance to write brief history of HE w my mentor
@MichaelMarmot
🙏
As you know, writing history is superpower
contact me if no access
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Letter from Prince Harry to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ms Winnie Byanyima on World AIDS Day
‘It is striking to now see the world’s leading AIDS activists are also leading the call for COVID-19 vaccine equity.’
Cuz we know what govts n corps do
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Everyone in global health should read this. Pass it on.
It is clear, bold, and action guiding.
Philosopher at work.
Many thanks
@HimaniBhakuni_
🙏🏽
"Each person has a moral right not to be treated as inferior. This moral right has found different forms of protection under dignity-based mechanisms. But these mechanisms do not extend.. to epistemic wrongs, harms and injustices."
📣 New Commentary ➡️
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GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH IN AFRICA DOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAMME – 2022-2027
25 PhD Fellowships for UK students
25 PhD Fellowships for Africans based in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ethiopia, The Gambia and Uganda
Deadline 31st January 2022
please share. more info.
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You know that Shafik ran LSE before she went to Columbia. It's a little extra here because of that.
BREAKİNG
LSE students OCCUPY Marshall Building in solidarity with Palestine and set up an encampment
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Probably one of press conferences I’ve learned the most. No rhetoric. Clear information.
These are three of the most important scientists in the world right now.
But ya, go ahead, keep paying attention to Fauci.
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Congratulations to Prince Harry whose memoir 'Spare' has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book of all time
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Learned word today that clarifies so many things: careerism
While doing HIV work in 90s I saw many people who cared 1st about themselves, then their employer, then people they are ‘helping’
They were careerists. This applies to much global health today, especially academia 🤔
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global health folks -
Miami Inst for Soc Sci has curated essays on decolonizing global health with lead article by David McCoy
webinar soon. read our essays
An Anti-Colonial Agenda for the Decolonisation of Global Health
@miami_institute
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Non Whites are 14% of UK population but 34% of critically ill
#covid19
patients. No, it is not because of a biological risk factor.
#covid19
#covidethics
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Don't know who created this. but it's super. and there are other circles as well.
if you know the creator let me know.
#covidethics
#covid19
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WHO - Launch of the Health Inequality Data Repository
20 April 2023 13:00 – 14:15 CET
The Health Inequality Data Repository is largest global collection of disaggregated data about health and determinants of health – with nearly 11 million data points
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I 💙
@BDUTT
independent media is more important now than ever before ...in world history. Yes I’ll put that out there.
#covid19
#coviderhics
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GLOBAL HEALTH TIMELINE 2024
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meanwhile some minor good news worth me going out for a donut n coffee.
"I am pleased to tell you that your manuscript entitled, "Epidemiology for health justice" (AJE-00192-2024) has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Epidemiology."
🙏✊
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amusing to see senior academics giving advice on
#isolation
. create work space, exercise, food deliveries...I ask you to think about millions who will starve or endure abuse...if you don't understand this now, you will never understand global justice.
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Mark your calendars. 23 Sept 9AM UK time.
I will be 'in conversation' with amazing
@seyeabimbola
to about how the knowledge infrastructure of global health has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
(aka power inequality knowledge)
@GHS_Network
@GlobalHealthBMJ
@KingsGHI
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LONDON PROTEST ADVICE - SHARE!!
The London COVID-19 Scientific and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) has provide health protection advice for people participating in protests
@globalhlthtwit
@GrahamScambler
@martinmckee
@MichaelMarmot
@Sir_David_King
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sometimes when I feel a bit unfocused, I go back to the classics. like this one.
Should the epidemiologist be a social scientist or a molecular biologist?
Mervyn Susser 1999
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at some point, all of you in global health should watch this session on racism in global health.
how racism affected response to AIDS, Ebola, NCDs, etc.
Use it for teaching
thank you. 🙏
@khosla_rajat
@rasanathan
@HHS_ASGA
@udnore
@AwaMCollSeck
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My strong advocacy for addressing socio-structural determinants of disease in no way limits my enthusiasm for medical interventions.
most women dying of painful cervical cancer are in LMICs. this 90% effective vaccine is not available there.
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Important and difficult topic. healthcare workers not showing up to work when they are needed the most.
In Mumbai's Private Hospitals there are 20000 beds, in Govt Hospitals 5000. For 25000 Active cases, roughly 5000 beds needed. So why Is Mumbai running short? One reason is Staff not showing up. My ground report: The Story of Sonu & Narmada. Two Women Outside a Covid Hospital
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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health
manuscript submitted!
out later this year🤞
incredible n generous co-editor
@AlexBroadbent
spectacular sherpa Alison Lockhart
and 26 chapters by luminous scholars from diverse fields.
I have no shame in pushing this out ✊
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I'm proud of this one. I've concluded most global health people don't talk about justice cuz they actually don't know what it means or how to apply it to their work. Pandemic treaty is imp opp for justice.
@khosla_rajat
n I wrote to make some noise.
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ICYMI - i'm not a usual Nature journal reader. This was sent to me recently, and he and the article is pretty amazing. from Oct 22.
Thank you
@seis_matters
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The Lancet Global Health invited readers, particularly those who are not regular contributors to share their expertise and experiences on the theme:
What is wrong with global health?
18 articles so far. and a vid. link below
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@LancetGH
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The Political Determinants of Health Collective
Decolonizing Global Health: Human Rights
The first event of the new series was held on April 24, 2023 and focused on human rights
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Please stop saying
#socialDistancing
say
#physicalDistancing
we need to increase social connections while reducing physical exposures. we get through epidemics through social collective action.
#covid19
#covidethics
#globalhealth
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At this point in world history, I just cannot fathom public health or global health training not including equity/justice as core component.
And yet I’m hearing great resistance to changing curriculum.
Have you seen any model integration?
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I'm struggling w how to say this
presenting HIV as gay men's disease cost millions of lives outside rich countries. it created rift among HIV advocates. let's take a GLOBAL and HISTORICAL view of epidemiology of monkeypox from start.
"we" is the world
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We are two months into an outbreak of monkeypox across the world and I find it incredibly frustrating that we seem to be stuck on debating whether this virus is really overwhelmingly affecting MSM (and whether it is homophobic to point that out) or whether to call this an STD.
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legalising cannabis in New York was meant to also do reparative justice for all the black folk who suffered under the criminal system.
guess what’s happening to the new biz area which was supposed to prioritise black entrants?
🚨Please stop what you’re doing and listen to the Director of the Drug Policy Alliance explain what’s going on with the cannabis industry in New York State! The people who were most affected by the criminalization of cannabis are being shut out of the industry!
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After months exiled from univ. office, allowed 1 hour entry today. got laptop updates and this delivery.
So proud of this project and also so worried. things have gone quiet.
we need people to engage. not just watch or go local.
pdf version is free.
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The
@WHO
Health Ethics Unit / PHEPREN have put out novel call for bids / proposals for ethics work.
up to $25k 3-4 months work on any of the ethics dimensions of COVID-19 or public health emergencies
chance for LMIC researchers to raise their issues
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wonderful news this morning that book will be out in Oct '23.
Really happy to see this academic conversation move beyond "what should we rich people do for those poor people over there"
Amaze effort by editors
@HimaniBhakuni_
@Miottoluc
✊
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This is so awesome.
@wellcometrust
shows up at
#WHA71
for the first time. Announces it will fund 150 intern positions at
@WHO
. And the support is for interns from
#LMICs
. Double goodness. A bit of optimism today.
#globalhealth
#whointerns
.
@wellcometrust
makes first intervention as a
#NSA
with official relations with the
@WHO
at
#WHA71
committing to fund 150 intern positions from
#LMICs
|
@dcorreiamartins
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15+ years ago, two people had foresight to start new academic journal called Public Health Ethics. They also helped birth a new field and careers.
this piece on journal's future agenda is 🔥🔥
🙏
@MarcelFVerweij
@PublicEthics
Lynette Reid ✊
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Why Omicron and Delta Could Be a ‘Twin Epidemic’
interview w
@PeterHotez
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via
@intelligencer
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👇👇the man who drove me to become health justice philosopher. it's a high bar. read what he says about famines democracy and pandemics. upshot-justice isn't going to happen if those in power do no listen to people
#COVIDETHICS
#covid19
@sanjaygreddy
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cry out for the men too. Don’t keep saying women n children.
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Journalist, Ismail Dahdouh, was walking and by chance found a man with two kids and felt the need to ask him if he was okay, at that moment is when the man broke. We need a ceasefire now.
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Dear
@WHO
. I think you are doing great job. but we have problem. you are giving guidance addressed to national elites and middle classes. who is going tailor guidance to world's most disadvantaged on how to deal with this threat and lockdown policies?
#covidethics
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Do you know what epistemic justice means? You should.
Who has a voice, who gets heard, who is believed, how much weight is given to their views, etc.
Read on. 👇🏽👇🏽
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Please read our (written with
@HimaniBhakuni_
) new article in
@LancetGH
"Epistemic injustice in academic global health"
/when
@LancetGH
asked "What is wrong with academic global health?", we answered: credibility deficit + interpretive marginalisation/
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You knew this was coming right?
White Supremacy in Global Health
well done
@ThinkGlobalHlth
for making the space. Hope it will be continuing discussion
@paimadhu
@womeninGH
@GHS
@seyeabimbola
@IHPblog
@GlobalHlth5050
@KingsGHI
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A new variant likely …
Many thanks
@AlexWitt
for hosting me. Regarding omicron-specific booster it’s not clear that will ever find use. While it’s good to have as backup and we’re doing the same for our recombinant Covid vaccine, a more likely scenario is a new VOC emerging later spring summer
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Post cards from interviews day at
@wellcometrust
Once again, I implore all you crazy thinkers and risk takers and advocates of health equity and justice…..apply for funding.
Millions of pounds looking to be used to make the health of people better.
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i can’t tell you how happy it makes me that South Asian students have been showing support.
i’m sure i wouldve cried if i was there while there were teaching the crowd to chant “Azadi”
go team!
✊🏾🙏🏽
Today's time line cleanse - raas from the encampment. Dandiyas for solidarity!
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worth reading. nice job
@Hardeep_Matharu
@BylineTimes
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid… Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: what is the cost of lies?”
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There is currently a WHO seminar on ethics. It's surprisingly good so far 🧵 1/n
-ethics was not really a part
-ethics should be a part
-WHO makes generic global advice
-both policy makers n ethicists needs to do better
-Fauci - ethicists at top level need to speak w power
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Nonsense in global health | The BMJ
This is so clever. Comedy is an excellent way to resist.
@felixundstein
@KStoreng
@AdeBengyP
🙏🏽✊🏾
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Social class is the biggest barrier to career progression. (Within KPMG)
Worth reading.
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pls read this article and find a single woman ethicist interviewed? or minority ethicist or specialist in aging ethics? Ill wait. journos writing re
#covid19ethics
right now need to do much much better
@nytimes
@afrakt
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We have not been talking enough about entire editorial board (45!) of Critical Public Health resigning...and then starting new journal.
we should pay much more attention to what is happening with academic publishing.
essay
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Like I said, the
@WHO
is full of Americans. From bottom to top. And two layers around
The reason why many Americans do not really know the WHO is because it has been thought of something for poor countries--till now
It's all gonna change
#covidethics
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We do not deserve to be called “global health” |
by Daniel Krugman et al. May, 2024
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bioethics is different from public health ethics which is different from global health ethics.
this pandemic is forcing us to learn / teach the difference.
science isn't the only needed solution here.
come join if you can. UK 12pm 1 July 2020.
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Dont forget to register for the
@GHS_Network
next webinar with
@sridhartweet
on Global Health Ethics.
1 July 2020
9pm AEST / 12pm BST
Register through our website or via link below:
#research
#globalhealthethics
#pandemics
#GHSN
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Sooo my trip to Delhi took a scary turn. Ended up in hospital expecting it might be my end time.
I’m fine now and in a happy place.
Apologies to all who felt I was ignoring your emails re overdue work
It’s going to be ok. The world will keep turning. Breathe. 🙏🏽
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this woman is amazing. if you don’t know her, you should.
the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Health
since 2020 she has been out in front without fear.
she gets Gaza is about health/global health n justice
✊🏾🙏🏽
With faith like a mustard seed…..
LET IT CEASE.
LET IT CEASE.
LET IT CEASE.
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India is one of the largest manufacturers of vaccines.
Welcome to 2021. It’s gonna be like this only
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this was dismissed when scholars from South would say it. Listen now.
the global architecture / system/ order is unjust and is bad for most people on this planet.
imagine better. it starts with ideas.
Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of fair & open markets, devlopment for all etc. but in practice the way financial markets are organized & regulated leads to an enormous income transfer from global South to global North, year after year & growing over time
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Pls read. It’s just a book review but took 1.4 years to get out.
@SojiAdeyi
has written a book that everyone in
#globalhealth
n development finance should read.
Unlike others, he has no PR campaign
🙏🏽
@TheLancet
for lifeline
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this is for my Indian colleagues and friends. Please look at and apply these COVID drug and disease management guidelines.
if there was a miracle drug we would be evaluating it. right now.
focus on the evidence. talk to your peers.
@doctorsoumya
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open access article. Some really clever and nice people.
in an ideal world, what we say would inform the negotiations.
do you know the principle of subsidiarity?
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call for papers - due by 31 Jan 24
UK - The First Black and Brown in Bioethics conference 2024
“Engaging Diversity in Bioethics Theory and Practice”
please share widely.
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@IMEPostgrad
@Nuffbioethics
@Ethox_Centre
@IABioethics
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All the global health people have gone quiet. Has the anti-racism stuff shocked you ? are you on holiday? where are you?
#covid19
is now spreading faster and greater in LMICs!
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there is now an encampment in front of my city hall bldg. this is not a university. they have demands re financial relations with Israel.
these ‘kids’ are doing research and following the money.
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42 chapters, 650 pages, 70 academics, 5 editors
WHY? because we all want governments and societies to focus on vulnerability and equity in response and recovery plans.
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
Open access
#covidethics
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i’m slowly regaining some respect for the American professoriate.
the tenure process brutalises people, n mostly the careerist survive.
but this is something to behold.
🙏🏽✊🏾
Professors from GWU, AU, and Georgetown have joined the Gaza encampment at DC and formed a protective barrier for the students protesting in solidarity.
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This is a monumental loss. In so many ways.
This man led the way in showing the world��s poorest have a right to the best available healthcare in the world.
He showed how causes of disease can be traced across borders and time.
He took on smug economists n racists.
🙏🏽✊🏾
Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.
Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.
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all of you in working in global health, you must read this.
this is a huge red flag, and an indication of what is to come.
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rare and big deal job - Canada ( Vancouver)
Assoc Professor, w tenure in Global Health Ethics.
normative philosophy
The successful candidate will hold the Mary and Maurice Young Professorship in Applied Ethics
apply by 31 Oct. Please circulate.
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Every
#globalhealth
person should read this. We are reaching tipping point. Thanks
@paimadhu
. As someone often plagiarised or erased, and seeing gh empire building, I am getting hopeful about the
#newglobalhealth
.
#activistscholarship
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the choices you make depends on the choices you have. compare the choice sets, not the choices.
"To feed your children junk food is cheaper"
Sir Michael Marmot says the poor are stuck in a cycle of feeding bad food to their children
#Newsnight
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this is what
#physicaldistancing
looks like. Not
#socialdistancing
. words matter.
#covid19
. (bad concepts are spreading as fast as the virus with bad consequences.) The
@WHO
has changed its language. Change yours.
Our street now has a WhatsApp group & this morning one neighbour was struggling with loneliness, so earlier we all had a socially distanced cuppa and chat together. This stuff makes a difference.
#lookaftereachother
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“ In sum, what I
am trying to point out here is that the possible failure of African
philosophers to engage with the discourse on global justice does not
absolve theorists of global justice from their failure to engage with the
resources in African philosophy. “
Page turner!🔥
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Happy Sunday. A day of rest for many of us. use it well. rest, laugh, and spends some time in nature.
here's something from the glorious Toni Morrison to reflect on for a few minutes today! intentions are everything.
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Please distribute widely. I am selfishly interested in PhD students interested in
#globalhealth
ethics/ justice!
@KingsGHI
@KingsCollegeLon
@ALC_KC
Do you have research interests that relate to Africa?
Could you take an interdisciplinary approach to your research?
Applications are invited from international students from
#Africa
for three PhD scholarships at King’s College London.
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I don’t know folks. It just does not feel right that a special envoy for the
@WHO
is justifying the use of cluster bombs
The WHO is not ready to go into just war theory n politics
@gabbystern
@DrTedros
@yodifiji
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is this true
@seyeabimbola
? Do you want to share any more information or links?
i hope you are doing alright friend. let us know how to help.
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The BMJ Global Health has been attacked for publishing an editorial abt the health consequences of the humanitarian catastrophe in
#Gaza
. Intimidation has no place in
#globalhealth
!
➡️Add your signature to the open letter
➡️Below my own letter in support.
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Bringing together academics in global health, bioethics and political philosophy with policymakers, we aim to create space for a broad conversation around new directions in global health justice.
2 days of applied ethics / global health ethics
Register
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👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Anyone who says don’t do politics during a pandemic must have been unconscious or not alive for first 30 years of HIV/ AIDS. Epidemic times are also when politics impact life and death on massive scale. Wake up!! Engage!!
Don’t let anyone tell you to stop doing politics during the pandemic. This is PRECISELY the time to plan a better future. ✌️
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The
@WHO
has just published state of the art guidance on treating COVID-19.
this is the gold standard. there is huge gap b/w what is best evidence and what doctors worldwide are actually doing.
right now, this is the best knowledge. I swear.🖐️🖐️
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Do not ever say you did not know.
Independent human rights experts:
“We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.
The time for action is now.
Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action.”
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Really have to commend folks at
@HealthFdn
. They have picked up the focus on inequalities in vulnerabilities to and consequences of this pandemic.
they have something called The Healthy Lives Team. Imagine that!
keep on going !
@JoBibbyTHF
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I did a pretty cool thing today. I examined a PhD. A proper philosophy dissertation that took 6 years.
It was a lovely day with lovely people discussing cool ideas. Reminded me why I entered academia.
Bought a donut and a book for train home
Happy Friday to all of you. ✌🏽
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“ I speak the truth
I speak from the evidence
I engage in conversation with people re social justice “
tonight’s reception celebrating
@MichaelMarmot
appointment to Order of the Companions of Honour for * major achievement in public health *
Some days we just celebrate
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do you know James? he was one of three authors who wrote that article in BMJ Global Health in October re Gaza. and they came after him and the editor.
and here he is. doing what some doctors do.
but ya, nothing to do with global health.
🙏🏽
@james_MSF
"We're receiving, every day, tens of patients presenting with jaundice, suspected hepatitis, many people who are hungry & dehydrated with serious infections.. the health system has been completely decimated, systematically undermined."
British doctor James Smith, who is in Gaza
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