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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 2d

How does research drive real change?

Our new Lancet–Elsevier Foundation Evidence to Impact Award is open for proposals! If your project champions implementation science, health equity and community engagement, apply before Feb 2: spkl.io/63326Aq7Z8

Promotional card for the Lancet-Elsevier Foundation Evidence to Impact Award. Images depict two healthcare workers looking at a clipboard and a person facing into the sun with their eyes closed and holding their hand on their chest.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Sarah Dalglish @sarahdlish.bsky.social · 8d

Corporations market intensively to children (including harmful products) because it is very lucrative 🤑 and creates lifetime consumers.

The WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission report recognized commercial marketing as a key threat to children’s health and wellbeing:

www.thelancet.com/commissions-...

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9d

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 10d

Wow! This sounds amazing. Check it out.

Robert Koch-Institut @rki.de · 10d

Global health challenges are evolving: We are looking for you, come and join us in Berlin!

A new cohort is opening for the PhD Program Global Health—bringing together research, innovation, and leadership at a time of rapid global change.

Apply here
➡️ globalhealth-phd.charite.de/en/applicati...

Robert Koch-Institut @rki.de · 10d

Global health challenges are evolving: We are looking for you, come and join us in Berlin!

A new cohort is opening for the PhD Program Global Health—bringing together research, innovation, and leadership at a time of rapid global change.

Apply here
➡️ globalhealth-phd.charite.de/en/applicati...

WHO @who.int · 20d

Harmful drinks are getting cheaper, not healthier.

WHO data shows sugary drinks & alcoholic products are now more affordable in most countries—including for young people.

This is a global warning sign. Raise taxes to protect health.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4szr4rv

Image shows a young person looking alarmed against a background of cans of sugary drinks and alcohol. Text reads 'Cheaper harmful products pose serious health risks. Sugary drinks + alcohol are now more affordable.'

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 21d

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

www.nytimes.com

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 21d

Wish this were exceptional but sadly it’s not!

The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 23d

“In 2022, according to The Lancet, more than 1.7 million Indians died as a result of air pollution, a 38 percent increase over the 2010 figure. Of the world’s ten most polluted cities, six are in India.” —Christopher de Bellaigue

Hype and Fraud in India | Christopher de Bellaigue

Narendra Modi is pursuing his vision of “developed India” through distorted claims of progress, stolen elections, and anti-Muslim policies.

www.nybooks.com

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24d

We should all stop talking about colonialism in the past tense

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 26d

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/t...

Our Favorite Home Libraries

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Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · 26d

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

One Sleep Habit Experts Wish You Would Adopt

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Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research @alliancehpsr.bsky.social · 28d

New year new project?

Call for expressions of interest currently open – Building better ways of knowing: Exploring new methods in how health generated to advance improved solutions toward health equity

Deadline: 16 January 2026, 23:59 CET

More info: ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Dec 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o... from @juliabelluz.bsky.social

Opinion | The French Secret to Healthier Eating

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Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Dec 12

I am so inspired and impressed by this work that we @alliancehpsr.bsky.social were able to support in #Palestine on the health system and policy response to climate change just published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Health system and policy response to climate change in the West Bank, Palestine: Current situation and priority actions

Climate change is a critical global risk to humans and ecosystems, influencing water and food security, air quality, and shelter, causing substantial direct and indirect health consequences. This incl...

journals.plos.org

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Dec 12

📢 Coming on December 15... the 4️⃣th edition of @EconforHealth #CigaretteTaxScorecard!

The 🆕 Scorecard uses latest data from @WHO to assess #cigarette tax policies in 171 countries 🌐

Join for the launch #webinar at 9am ET
jh.zoom.us/j/9242517268...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Launch of the Economics for Health Cigarette Tax Scorecard (4th edition). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar...

Join Economics for Health for the launch of the 4th edition of the Cigarette Tax Scorecard. The presenters will share the latest findings on cigarette tax policies in 171 countries and discuss trends ...

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Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Dec 8

Check out our new call below to capture community-led, disruptive, and innovative strategies addressing social determinants of health in #Brazil, #India, #Kenya, #Nepal, #Pakistan, #Senegal, #SriLanka or #SouthAfrica.

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research @alliancehpsr.bsky.social · Dec 5

New call for expressions of interest – Building better ways of knowing: Exploring new methods in how health generated to advance improved solutions toward health equity

Deadline: 16 January 2026, 23:59 CET

More information > ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research @alliancehpsr.bsky.social · Dec 5

New call for expressions of interest – Building better ways of knowing: Exploring new methods in how health generated to advance improved solutions toward health equity

Deadline: 16 January 2026, 23:59 CET

More information > ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Remco van de Pas @rvandepas.bsky.social · Dec 5

The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on Thursday, after 2024 saw unprecedented heat, destructive storms and worsening water scarcity impact some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Arab region pushed to limits by climate extremes as 2024 smashes heat records

The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on Thursday, after 2024 saw unprecedented heat, destructive storms and worsening water scarcity impact some of ...

news.un.org

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Nov 25

Recommend it!

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Nov 25

Sounds great!

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Nov 12

Wow. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

Japan’s Leader Started a Meeting at 3 A.M. Then Came the Backlash.

www.nytimes.com

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Nov 7

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

www.theguardian.com

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Oct 31

Always interesting to read @thelancet.com @richardhorton1.bsky.social offline musing---> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Offline: The death of globalism (part 1)

Tempting as it is to write off the Trump phenomenon and its effects on medicine and global health as a temporary derangement of mass politics, one would be severely mistaken for doing so. The imitatio...

www.thelancet.com

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Oct 30

I'm looking forward to reading.

Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · Oct 9

"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org

Robert Marten @robertmarten.bsky.social · Oct 29

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