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Jocalyn Clark

@jocalynclark.bsky.social

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International Editor, The BMJ.
Former editor The Lancet, icddr,b and PLOS Medicine. Adjunct faculty UofT and UCL. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Views mine.

Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian public health scientist. She is the international editor of The BMJ, and has responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage. From 2016 to 2022, Jocalyn was an executive editor at The Lancet, where she led the Commentary section, coordinated peer review, and edited and delivered collections of articles and commissions on topics such as maternal and child health, oral health, migration, end of life care and gender equity. She led the Lancet's project to advance women in science, medicine, and global health, #LancetWomen. She is also an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. .. more

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d

The 2nd installment of our #GenAI series in @bmj.com asks what the introduction of AI tools into the doctor-patient relationship does to patient-centred care, safety, ethics and trust #MustRead

The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

Charlotte Blease & co show how AI can expand patient access & autonomy, when the right safeguards are in place

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#PatientSafety
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

Charlotte Blease & co show how AI can expand patient access & autonomy, when the right safeguards are in place

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#PatientSafety
@crblease.bsky.social @dafraile.bsky.social @sarariggare.bsky.social e.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 2d

#ICYMI South-South cooperation among #G20 countries, defying US unilateralism & promoting #globalhealth👇

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 2d

I watched him take a victory lap in Austin this month at an anti-vaccine conference for the Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense.
My piece on how Wakefield’s comeback is taking shape: www.ms.now/news/the-ret...

The doctor who falsely tied vaccines to autism is enjoying a comeback

Andrew Wakefield, who was once cast out for his retracted study tying autism to the MMR vaccine, is making a comeback in the second term of President Donald Trump as an ally of Health and Human Servic...

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LSHTM AMR Centre @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for LSHTM’s Equity in AMR Action seminar, which explores how equity influences responses to AMR.

Speakers will share their work from the WHO, LSE, and the Global Strategy Lab.

📅 12 Dec
⏲️ 13:00 GMT
Check the event details 👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Equity in AMR Action | LSHTM

In 2025, the Network’s seminar series invites 2-3 speakers for each event to present their work on a particular theme around prioritisation. This fourth seminar of the series presents ‘Equity in AMR

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 2d

25 no response out of 30 requests to review!

Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media

Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 2d

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

On Shabana Mahmood's contemptible attempt to mobilise her identity in support of her sadistic immigration policies, this from Nesrine Malik is exactly what needed saying.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik

‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d

Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/w... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social, @nicktsergas.ca

Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms

Something is breaking inside of American medicine.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Howard Liu, MD, MBA @drhowardliu.bsky.social · 5d

“South African women's rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become commonplace.”

Important in every country.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

South African women call purple protest at G20 over gender violence

Nearly 1,000 women were raped and 137 murdered in the first three months of this year.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 5d

“There is a lot of fear in doing research, particularly around pregnancy and reproduction, which has led to a stagnating of innovation around those conditions.”

Jane Hirst on why women’s health research needs innovation to be more inclusive.

Part of The BMJ’s Collection
www.bmj.com/collections/...

Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 6d

This must feel so maddening. And it makes the ill prepared Covid response ever more heartbreaking.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 6d

Instead of having a coherent workforce plan, the NHS is now part of the gig economy, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this new Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 6d

“Innovations without equity can actually reproduce the same hierarchies and discriminations those innovations claim they wish to disrupt.”

Dr Ebere Okereke on why global health innovation must include women.

Part of The BMJ’s new Collection on women’s health innovation.
www.bmj.com/collections/...

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 6d

The Covid Inquiry report has dropped confirming what so many of us already knew.

Covid inquiry live updates: UK 'too little, too late' in early Covid response, leading to thousands more deaths

The inquiry says 23,000 lives could have been saved in England by an earlier lockdown - but also that a lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.

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Global Health Matters podcast 🎙️ @ghm-podcast.bsky.social · 6d

Monica Bharel (Google Health) on building trust through access and accuracy for the #GlobalHealthMatters podcast with @garryaslanyan.bsky.social 🎙️ Recorded at #WHS2025 in partnership with the @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social 👉 http://tinyurl.com/GHM-E56

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 7d

"Based on reported phase transition rates, 8.53 phase 1 trials, 5.08 phase 2 trials, and 1.79 phase 3 trials were conducted for each product approved."

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It's fascinating to see population data for these "voltage drops"

Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry

This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.

jamanetwork.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7d

“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Trump said at a campaign stop in 2015. “They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”

Trump meets business partner In the Oval Office

From “bad situation” to “things happen”: How Saudi money changed Trump’s tune on Khashoggi's murder.

www.motherjones.com

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 7d

“The research that led to that 28-day [menstrual] cycle statistic is not representative of Asian and Latina women.”

Carmel Shachar on the need for more inclusive data to guide #femtech innovation.

Part of The BMJ’s Collection on women’s health innovation.

www.bmj.com/collections/...
#WomensHealth

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 7d

How is AI reshaping the clinician–patient relationship?

The BMJ’s new series examines what responsible, transparent #HealthAI use looks like in clinical practice.

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www.bmj.com/collections/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 7d

Marburg virus outbreak: Six deaths confirmed in Ethiopia www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Marburg virus outbreak: Six deaths confirmed in Ethiopia

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 7d

Harvard will open a new probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ connections with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed Tuesday night.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard To Launch New Investigation Into Epstein’s Ties to Summers, Other University Affiliates | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will open a new probe into former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ connections with convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein, after newly released documents revealed the two…

www.thecrimson.com

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d

#ICYMI: our @bmj.com Collection on women’s health innovation, exploring how better data, leadership, and policy can drive equity in women’s health.

@jocalynclark.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Explore the full collection: www.bmj.com/collections/...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d

NEW: The BMJ launches a series introducing “triadic care,” exploring how #AI has become a third party in the clinician-patient relationship.

www.bmj.com/collections/...

#MedTech
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 8d

Disgusted again by the serial sexist that Harvard continues to harbour.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 8d

Ouch from @nellscovell.bsky.social: “Before Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a vast tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, Harvard professor Larry Summers, 70 … www.thedailybeast.com/harvards-slu...

Harvard’s Slutty Professor, 70, Has to Go for Emailing Epstein for Sex Tips

Donald Trump wasn’t the only name lurking in the predator’s inbox.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 8d

Ouch from @nellscovell.bsky.social: “Before Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a vast tranche of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, Harvard professor Larry Summers, 70 … www.thedailybeast.com/harvards-slu...

Harvard’s Slutty Professor, 70, Has to Go for Emailing Epstein for Sex Tips

Donald Trump wasn’t the only name lurking in the predator’s inbox.

www.thedailybeast.com

Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 8d

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 11d

Women with heart disease are more likely than men to be underdiagnosed, undertreated, and under-represented in research trials.

This persistent gender gap is more than a clinical shortcoming; it is a deeper structural failure in health policy
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

A woman in hospital

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ISGlobal @isglobal.org · 16d

We are proud that #ISGlobal has been selected to coordinate the secretariat of the #PlanetaryHealth Alliance (2026‑2028). A strategic commitment to science‑policy integration.

🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/jqlhbtlpxm

#GlobalHealth

ISGlobal Will Coordinate the European Secretariat of the Planetary Health Alliance Starting in 2026 - ISGLOBAL

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) will assume the Secretariat of the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) from 2026 to 2028.