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🇪🇺 European doctors are concerned with several amendments of the Digital Omnibus Package, as they seem to considerably reduce safeguards around personal data use and re-use, in particular for health data in AI contexts

👉 Read our feedback
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Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

Oxford University Press has lifted the paywall on the entire 40 year archive of @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of our flip to fully open access!

Check out the amazing work of our authors - free to read - here:

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Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study

Ensuring consistency and predictability in EU decision making Keynote speech by Ombudswoman Anjinho at a dinner with the Board of the German Retail Federation

‘If we want to restore trust in EU politics—and if we want an EU that supports competitive, innovative, and responsible businesses—we must balance urgency with inclusivity, and efficiency with democratic deliberation.’ - EU Ombudswoman Anjinho.

Full speech 👇

⚠️ Demand for our upcoming webinar is high—limited spaces remaining!

We will be navigating a new era of psychosocial risk in Europe with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work on 3 February.

Info: https://app.livestorm.co/eurofound/navigating-a-new-era-of-psychosocial-risk-in-europe

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science
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🚀 We’re hiring a Senior Communications Officer (Utrecht, hybrid)

Shape how public health is communicated across Europe, working with EUPHA and the EPH Conference.

📄 12-month contract | 32–36h
👉 Apply: www.karelserecruitment.nl/job/senior-c...

#WeAreHiring #PublicHealth #CommsJobs #EUcareers

EU and Japan successfully conclude Horizon Europe negotiations The European Commission and Japan have successfully concluded negotiations on Japan\'s association to Horizon Europe, the EU\'s flagship €93.5 billion research and innovation funding programme.

As of 2026, Japanese entities will be eligible to apply to #HorizonEU calls in Pillar 2, including #health research.

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Near Unanimous Adoption Of UN Declaration On NCDs And Mental Health – Only US And Argentina Opposed - Health Policy Watch The United Nations (UN) General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favour of a political declaration to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and promote

🧠🚭💊 For the first time, global targets for #NCDs & mental health are aligned:
150M fewer tobacco users
150M more people with controlled hypertension
150M more with access to mental health care by 2030

✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@cleanairfund.bsky.social @worldheart.org @msf.org @un.org

📖⬇️ & 🙏

🧵 1/ Public health is under siege. Populism, disinformation & weakened global institutions threaten trust in science. Here’s how we fight back using the tools of diplomacy. Our new paper, with @charlottemar.bsky.social and colleagues from Europe & US, is just out in Public Health Reviews

Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU deregulation.

🇪🇺President von der Leyen's VP once again criticising her leadership - this time on the "red-tape-cutting" omnibus exercise which is being partly driven by VDL's promises to Trump in Scotland.

We saw what happened to the last person who dared to do that (Breton).

Committee on Public Health Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...

🗓️ Mon 1/12, 15.00 CET - debates in @sant.europarl.europa.eu

💶Discharge 2024 EU General budget (opinions)
🧪Panel for the Future of Science & technology
🏥Rare Diseases - study results presentation

🎥Watch live
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Photo of a researcher working in a laboratory at ICANS, the Strasbourg Europe Cancer Institute

What is the European Parliament's role in cancer control action plans and cancer policies?

🩺 Read the study on Europe's Beating Cancer Plan: Implementation findings: link.europa.eu/9qRVCb

@sant.europarl.europa.eu

The Rich 'Had A Good Pandemic’: How Inequality Weakens Disease Responses - Health Policy Watch The poorest people and countries suffer the most during pandemics, setting in motion a “vicious cycle” of inequality where those who suffer the most are least

💰 “The rich had a very good pandemic,” says @michaelmarmot.bsky.social

While billionaires’ wealth rose, 165 million people fell into poverty. Inequality doesn’t just divide — it weakens pandemic response itself.

⚕️Inequality is a public-health risk multiplier.

@panaction.bsky.social @unaids.org

The Trump Action Tracker has an update!

Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

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Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
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Parliament study praises EU Cancer Plan, but laments ‘legislative inaction’ "Delays persist in tobacco and alcohol control legislation in particular", the paper reads

Parliament study praises EU Cancer Plan, but laments ‘legislative inaction’

As well as #mentalhealth : this draft suggests the action plan against cyberbullying will be delivered in Q1

World Health Summit – pivotal in a pivotal year? What really happened at this year’s World Health Summit in Berlin? Here’s a 5-point summary.

Missed #WHS2025? A quick 5-point recap: katribertram.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/w... #globalhealth

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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This article on Healthy Cities by @evdle.bsky.social might seem like ancient history but I really like it because it's so rare to find a clear articulation of the program theory, process, and outcomes of an agenda like Healthy Cities. I wish more people would do exactly this. We'd learn a lot.

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we shine a light on mental health in humanitarian crises.

When homes are lost & families separated, recovery must include #MentalHealth care.

Let’s ensure support is part of every response—before, during & after crisis http://bit.ly/3KBMUcp

Dutch government @minbz.bsky.social to cut its contribution to multilateral #globalhealth organisations (Gavi, Global Fund, UNAIDS, UNFPA and GFF) by almost 20% as of coming year.

No, VP Vance- the reason our emergency rooms are crowded isn't due to illegal immigrants. It's due to our for-profit health care system which leaves many Americans unable to afford healthcare insurance so the emergency room is their only option.

(cartoon from the archives)

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen

“As a medical doctor by training, I’m appalled by the disinformation that threatens global progress on everything from measles to polio…today I can announce that the EU will head a new Global Health Resilience Initiative”

Welcome words from President von der Leyen in today’s State of the EU address

Figure showing the evolving clinical landscape of sex and healthcare disparities in ischaemic heart disease. Created in BioRender.com.

Presented at #ESC2025, a new Series in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe proposes actionable, evidence-based strategies to promote equity in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular diseases.

Read now 👉 tinyurl.com/mdmcr4ks

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

I joined eight former CDC directors—spanning Republican and Democratic administrations—to share this warning: our nation’s health is at risk.

The very systems that protect us from disease, cancer, and future health threats are being dismantled.

Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 Background: Aluminum is used as an adjuvant in nonlive vaccines administered in early childhood. Concerns persist about potential associations between vaccination with aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and i...

Let's say it louder for those at the back: Routine childhood vaccines do not cause autism, a major study in Denmark confirmed Wednesday, countering a myth that has been trumpeted for decades.
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Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...

Trump is working on regime change in Europe
My latest for @euobserver.com

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