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Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas on type 5 diabetes

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · 12d

In our latest podcast, Meredith Hawkins and Nihal Thomas discuss a “lost” condition, which they name type 5 diabetes. Listen now to explore the fascinating history of the disorder and the urgent need for effective treatments. open.spotify.com/episode/3mSY...

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Financing policies to sustain improved prevention, control, and management of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 14d

Pledges have been made to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) & mental health conditions—but financing has not followed.

Ahead of the #UNGA high-level meeting on NCDs, explore 7 key actions to improve financing & health outcomes: tinyurl.com/49vnsxad @lancetgh.bsky.social

All countries have pledged to tackle the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and mental health conditions, but financing has not followed. This Health Policy summarises the background research...

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · 13d

Our October issue is now live! lnkd.in/eezpGTwq
Featuring:
👉 An Editorial on the burden of NCDs among people of South Asian heritage www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
👉 A Comment urging global health policy makers to recognise obesity as a disease www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#HLM4

The October 2025 cover of The Lancet Global Health, featuring a photograph of a Sikh man shopping in a grocery store

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · 29d

Sept 15-19 is #PeerReviewWeek and the theme is "Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era". So, can computers review global health research papers? Find out what we think in our Editorial from earlier this year:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Artificial-intelligence-based peer reviewing: opportunity or threat?

As new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to be developed and launched at a breakneck pace, editors are grappling with the dual opportunities and threats that such innovations present ...

The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please save the date for a Webinar entitled "Reporting race and ethnicity data in Lancet journals: a pathway to improving health outcomes and equity in research and clinical practice"

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST

Sign up here: hubs.li/Q03GrTGb0

Promotional graphic for a Lancet Webinar featuring Zoe Mullan, Editor in Chief of The Lancet Global Health. The webinar, titled 'Reporting race and ethnicity data in Lancet journals: a pathway to improving health outcomes and equity in research and clinical practice,' will take place on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST. The graphic includes a portrait of Zoe Mullan on the right and text details on a dark blue background with subtle pinstripes. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Attending the World Health Summit #WHS2025 in Berlin? Paraminder Dhillon, Senior Editor, invites you to reach out with enquiries. Explore our scope, reach & impact, commitment to publishing excellence, & more: hubs.li/Q03BL5DX0
@worldhealthsummit.bsky.social

Promotional card. Contact Paraminder Dhillon regarding content enquiries at paraminder.dhillon@lancet.com. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked

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Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social · Sep 3

New #opendata in #globalhealth: "Data from: The impact of aid sanctions on maternal and child mortality, 1990–2019: A panel analysis" from researchers Ruth Gibson, Paul Wise, Joseph Dieleman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social et al 🧪

DATASET: bit.ly/3I6fdhY
@lancetgh.bsky.social ARTICLE: bit.ly/4ggEhQ7

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · Sep 2

#MSF in @lancetgh.bsky.social - "Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Humanitarian crises have evolved dramatically in scale, duration, severity, and complexity since Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971. In 2024, over 120 million people were forcibly disp...

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Please save the date for a Webinar on the importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender:

Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT.

Sign up here: hubs.li/Q03FR1wP0

Promotional graphic for a Lancet Webinar featuring Zoe Mullan, Gavin Cleaver, Lan-Lan Smith, and Taissa Vila. The webinar, titled ‘The importance of analysing, reporting, and interpreting data according to sex and gender,' will take place on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT. The graphic includes portraits of the speakers and text details on a dark blue background with subtle pinstripes. Copyright: Elsevier Ltd.

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Aug 21

The September issue is now live!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring:
👉 Our Editorial on restoring dignity to the marginalised as sovereign knowers
👉 Estimation analysis of war-time mortality in Sudan
👉 The global burden of cancer attributable to HIV

The cover of the September issue of The Lancet Global Health, featuring dark-skinned men in hazmat suits carrying a body bag against a backdrop of destroyed buidings.
Image credit: Ebrahim Hamid / AFP.

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · Aug 21

🚨 New publication!
Our RCT in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso & 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire shows that adding either non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying (IRS) or intensive behaviour change communication (BCC) to LLINs reduces #malaria burden.

In @lancetgh.bsky.social :
doi.org/10.1016/S221...

#GlobalHealth #VectorControl

First page of the article entitled "Efficacy of non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying or intensive behaviour change communication in combination with long-lasting insecticidal nets for malaria control in west Africa: a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, controlled trial"

Registration | The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025

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The Union @theunion.org · Aug 18

Published in @lancetgh.bsky.social earlier this year, the report presents the first global estimates of medical oxygen need & access gaps.

This session will share Commission findings & recommendations to save lives & prepare for the next respiratory pandemic.

Register now: union2025.urevent.fr

The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025

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Obesity is a disease: global health policy must catch up

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

First page of article titled Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations"

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Aug 12

⚖️ Obesity recognised as a disease?

A new @lancetgh.bsky.social commentary urges global policy to treat obesity as a chronic disease, integrate care into health systems, and tackle stigma alongside prevention.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm 🧪 #Obesity

Obesity is a chronic, biologically driven, and progressive disease. It contributes to more than 200 health conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and multiple cancers.1 Yet in global ...

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The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Jul 28

The August issue of The Lancet Global Health is now live!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring:
👉 Anti-corruption in health
👉 Global burden of kidney failure with replacement therapy
👉 Leprosy in Pakistan

The cover of the August issue if The Lancet Global Health featuring a photo of authors Anil Fastenau and Paul Saunderson during field work in Pakistan. Image credit: Syed Aamir Mustafa Shah.

Announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on anti-corruption in health: a call for a novel approach

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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · Jul 23

📃🩺🧪🌏Remarkable paper in @lancetgh.bsky.social on factors associated with health-care (in)efficiency.
🤓TL;DR summary➡️Most surprising result: development assistance for health is associated with inefficiency📉
#MedSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Factors associated with health spending inefficiency
Strongly associated with EFFICIENCY: gov, pharmaceutical, social protection spending; democracy, accountability, rule of law, regulatory qual, gov stability, gov effectiveness; all preventive care factors (vaccines, ANC, skilled birth); all infrastructure factors (electricity, pop density, roads, health workers)
Strongly associated with INEFFICIENCY: prepaid private spending, development assistance for health; gov corruption, education inequality

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Dina Balabanova @dinabalabanova.bsky.social · Jul 23

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🚨 New Lancet Global Health Commission on Anti-Corruption in Health: Corruption - an institutional failure & a global threat
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#GlobalHealth #AntiCorruption
@martinmckee.bsky.social @eleanorhutch.bsky.social @preslavastoeva.bsky.social @tolibmirzoev.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com

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Rebecca Clark @raclark18.bsky.social · Jul 15

Reduced international donor funding through not only the termination of #USAID, but also announced reductions in donor pledges to #TheGlobalFund from other countries, could lead to substantial potential impacts on #TB morbidity and mortality.

Read how in our new study in @lancetgh.bsky.social 👇

Katherine Horton @kchorton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social:

bit.ly/3TDl28T

@raclark18.bsky.social @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @alexandra-richards.bsky.social @top-j.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Jul 14

🌍 Climate cost of 'ethical' AI?

A new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper warns that AI in health is worsening climate harms; fuelled by water use, emissions & extractive tech.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #EthicalAI 🧪

Climate change and health: the next challenge of ethical AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the world's most resource-intensive digital technologies, but the environmental impact of AI on health remains largely unaddressed in both global health and bioe...

Catastrophic health expenditure, social protection coverage, and financial coping strategies in adults with symptoms of chronic respiratory diseases in Kenya: a cross-sectional study

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Katherine Horton @kchorton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social:

bit.ly/3TDl28T

@raclark18.bsky.social @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @alexandra-richards.bsky.social @top-j.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social

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Tom Wingfield @tomwingfield.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢in @lancetgh.bsky.social we show heavy catastrophic health expenditure burden in people with chronic respiratory disease symptoms,Meru #Kenya.🔍 Of 296 adults,26% had #CHE (health costs>10% household expenses),CHE more likely in females & if seeking care accompanied or at sub-county/county hosps.

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P4H Network @p4hnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 3

📢 A new @lancetgh.bsky.social study finds 26% of adults with chronic respiratory symptoms in Meru County, #Kenya face catastrophic health costs.
72% lacked #NHIF, 95% used coping strategies.
Study urges stronger #SocialProtection.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#CHE #UHC #P4HNetwork

These findings suggest a sizeable burden of CHE in people seeking care for chronic respiratory disease symptoms in Meru County in Kenya, driven by socioeconomic and sex inequalities and impaired acces...

The Lancet Global Health @lancetgh.bsky.social · Jul 2

The July issue is now live! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring an Editorial on protecting transgender and gender-diverse health, an Article on the burden of stroke, ischaemic heart disease, and dementia in Africa, and a Viewpoint on climate change, health, and ethical AI.

The cover of the July issue of The Lancet Global Health, featuring a photograph of two dark-skinned people wrapped in a rainbow flag