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Jocalyn Clark

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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.

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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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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.

Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg

Peace is the Prize: Why this Year’s Nobel Award Should be the Last - World Peace Foundation

Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 15h

That makes you the vixen! 😉

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

Of the 202 Nobel laureates who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.

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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 1d

With official aid is shrinking, can philanthropy fill the gap? Or is it time to rethink the system entirely?

A new episode of our #ThinkChangePodcast asks how development cooperation must evolve in a changing world. 🎧

Think Change episode 82: From aid to alliances – how should development cooperation evolve?

This episode examines the evolving role of philanthropy in shaping global development cooperation at a time when official aid is under strain.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 1d

I welcome President Trump's announcement about the ceasefire in #Gaza & hostage release. It is a big step towards lasting peace for both Israelis & Palestinians. I hope all parties will respect the agreement, so the suffering of all civilians finally ends & all hostages are brought home respectfully

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🇺🇸 The plans laid out in the new US #globalhealth strategy depend on credibility the Trump administration does not have, write Larry Gostin & Steve Morrison in @bmj.com

Promise and gaps in America First strategy for global health

Plans are based on credibility the Trump administration does not have Just before the 2025 UN General Assembly, US secretary of state Marco Rubio released the America First Global Health Strategy .1 ...

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 3d

"TBI is not advocating for building that capacity within the NHS. They are saying: let’s outsource to our buddies.”

"I’m an African, I have lived experience, and I’m saying these things, but I wasn’t being listened to. You have to downplay those negative things...”

Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 3d

Finally someone digs into the problematic conflicts of interest baked into the business model of Tony Blair Institute.

TB's "trademark evangelism is now focused on AI, its power to transform government & why everyone should listen to Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle" (and the head of EIT).

Blair and the Billionaire

Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

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Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

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WomenLift Health @womenlifthealth.bsky.social · 4d

🎯 Last chance to register!

The future of leadership isn’t about titles—it’s about authenticity.

Join WomenLift Health North America for a free workshop to discover how to lead as the truest and most impactful version of yourself.

🔗 bit.ly/4gX1abN
📅 Oct 8 | 10AM PT / 1PM ET

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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 4d

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) @mmv.org · 4d

Africa’s first-ever Phase 3 adaptive platform trial of #malaria treatments in early pregnancy has enrolled its first patient in Mali – a landmark moment for the SAFIRE consortium conducting the trial. 

Press release 👉 bit.ly/4hbmURr

#SAFIRE4MalariaInPregnancy

First patient enrolled in historic Phase 3 clinical trial to treat malaria in first-trimester pregnancy | Medicines for Malaria Venture

A major milestone in Africa’s first-ever study assessing malaria treatments in early pregnancy.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 6d

They largely want the studios & sports and don’t care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 6d

Men Are Losing Faith in Science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... @adamfrank4.bsky.social🙏

"Framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents..."

Manosphere BS "based on profound ignorance & a disinterest in even the most basic scientific principles..."

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

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@valeryridde @valeryridde.bsky.social · 6d

« Unlike domestic political parties, WHO staff cannot remove a Director-General directly. Nevertheless, their coordinated expression of no confidence is a critical early warning signal to member states »
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[Update] A No-Confidence Motion at World Health Organization: The Real Crisis is Leadership [GUEST ESSAY]

Newsletter Edition #304 [The Files Flash]

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 7d

"The MAGA methodologists are unchecked: their hubris extends to believing that they know best about science and medicine."

The cult of MAGA methodology is out of control, and it’s causing harm, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
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University Affairs | Affaires universitaires @universityaffairs.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Academic freedom in jeopardy. Yukiko Asada resigned from the NIH and calls on Canada to support at-risk scholars.

➡️ Read her open letter: http://bit.ly/4mG7UMb

#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #ResearchIntegrity

Help scientists ousted by America’s attack on knowledge - University Affairs

An open letter to leaders of higher education in Canada.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d

Despite regulation, commercial sunbeds remain popular with young people and indoor tanning is experiencing a boom in popularity.

An outright ban of sunbeds is likely to be cost effective for the NHS, says this Analysis
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 9d

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it www.livescience.com/human-behavi... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false rep...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10d

“You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development

Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 10d

Widespread disruptions to the delivery of lifesaving US foreign assistance including antiretrovirals and malaria medicines laid out in this:

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14d

"...His opposition came despite childhood obesity being one of the main targets of the Make America Healthy Again agenda."
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14d

"...the US rejected it. He claimed that the UN had exceeded its role, by going, for example, too far in recommending taxes on unhealthy products. He also criticised it for its stance on gender ideology and abortion, even though the declaration does not mention either."
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14d

Headline pretty much says it all 🤯
RFK Jr torpedoes UN declaration on non-communicable diseases #NCDS #HLM4
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Robert F Kennedy Jr torpedoes UN declaration on non-communicable diseases

Unexpected US intervention has led to a declaration to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) failing to be approved at the United Nations. During the fourth high level meeting on NCDs and mental he...

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14d

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 14d

US obsessed with controlling women and denying equality in a world defined by historic inequity favouring men. They call this a return to traditional values. What are they so afraid of?

Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 14d

US blocks UN resolution on non-communicable diseases at the last minute, because it "pushes a destructive gender ideology". The only reference to gender in the entire declaration is about women's health www.devex.com/news/us-obje...

US objections stall UN effort to tackle noncommunicable diseases

U.S. objections stalled the long-negotiated U.N. declaration on noncommunicable diseases, sending it to a full General Assembly vote next month.

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