Professor in Applied Public Health Research. Head WHO collaborating centre for policy research on the determinants of health equity. Was here : @benj_barr
Joined August 2021
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A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide.
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A country divided by health inequalities. Solving the UK regional health divide.
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#Austerity #Brexit #Covid
And people question whether there is more depression? 🤔🙄🤪
Economic equality = improved wellbeing…
Preston Model policy of community wealth building leaves residents 'happier, healthier and wealthier' - and on fewer antidepressants, research suggests. @mickmckeown2016 @prestonlabour @blogpreston @MatthewBrownLab
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None of us have wanted to put this story out there yet, but seems it is on its own.
Many are saying that the US is now helping Russians with intelligence.
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The PHIRST LiLaC team is looking for 2 public advisors to join their team. Are you interested in Public Health and what councils are doing to improve it? Meetings are online so you can be based anywhere in the UK phirst.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content… @benj_barr2 @AmanderWellings @Cherrysouth
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Turis rain gauge data has been retrieved and it’s incredible
680mm daily total
179mm in one hour - an all time Spanish record
42mm in 10 minutes
The average annual rainfall for this location of 475mm was recorded in 3 hours 20 minutes!
Frankly terrifying. Via @AEMET_CValencia
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Health, and hence economic growth and prosperity, cannot improve if we do not have a properly functional social security system
Some evidence and thoughts from some amazing colleagues in this Blog
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Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Toshiyuki Mimaki:
“I thought the prize would go to those working hard in Gaza…
In Gaza bleeding children are being held by their parents. It’s like Japan 80 years ago”.
Power of Hiroshima/Nagasaki: 36,000 tons of explosives.
Bombs on Gaza: 82,000 tons.
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.@arc_nwc's Place-based Longitudinal Data Resource pldr.org/ brings together datasets that track changes in determinants of health & health outcomes in specific places. These are used by researchers, government, the #NHS & VSOs arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/news/how-…
📍#ARCimpacts
ALT Detail of a map produced with the Place-based Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR) and #ARCimpacts logo
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New @NuffieldFound report out today by @AMBachMortensen, myself and colleagues.
What can data tell us about 10 years of social care outsourcing?
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Roberta Piroddi @LivUni kicking us off at #SSM2024 session on Child Health.
A&E attendance data on self-harm in Liverpool and Cheshire. Increased rates amongst teenage girls and young men.
@ChildHealthScot @theSPHSU #ScottishChildrensHealthWeek
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Roberta Piroddi @LivUni kicking us off at #SSM2024 session on Child Health.
A&E attendance data on self-harm in Liverpool and Cheshire. Increased rates amongst teenage girls and young men.
@ChildHealthScot @theSPHSU #ScottishChildrensHealthWeek
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Yep, and we wrote a book on how to fix it
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Face-to-face support session for colleagues in the North East considering an application for a NIHR Pre-Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship.
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