Cambridgeshire @cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Cambridgeshire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky #Cambs #Cambridgeshire
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social A team of women & non-binary scientists & clinicians here to empower people to better navigate science & health info. Creators of Dear Pandemic.
#publichealth #scicomm #WomenInStem
https://thosenerdygirls.org/
https://thosenerdygirls.substack.com/
Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social Calder Valley Kite Kollective
Prayer Collector
Dream Broker
📍Bohemia
Ravi Gurumurthy @raviguru.bsky.social CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation.
What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.
Charlotte Augst @charlotteaugst.bsky.social Londoner, mother of two, consultant around questions of health, care, community, influence and impact (previously CEO Richmond Group of Charities and National Voices). Head and heart. 🐈⬛ 🪴 ☕️ 🇪🇺 🌳
Sally Warren @sallywarren.bsky.social DG 10 Year Health Plan at DHSC, working with NHSE. Ex Director of Policy at The King’s Fund. All things health and social care. Views my own. Requotes not always an endorsement.
To help shape 10 year plan for health please go to www.change.nhs.uk
Mary Dixon-Woods @marydixonwoods.bsky.social Director @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social. I study how to improve and innovate in healthcare quality and safety. Views: Own
Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social Health equity, social inequalities, lifecourse, embodiment
Leads the Inserm #Equity team University of Toulouse, France
Social Epidemiologist & quantitative social scientist
Health Inequality, 3rd Ed, polity
https://cerpop.inserm.fr/equipe-equity
Professor Judith Smith @profjudithsmith.bsky.social Professor of Health Policy and Management @unibirmingham.bsky.social @hsmcentre.bsky.social Co-Director @BRACE-evaluation.bsky.social Chair and Trustee of @hsruk.bsky.social and Trustee https://excathedra.co.uk/
Dan Spicer @danspicer.bsky.social Work on local government policy and strategy - mostly health related, also currently working on engagement and participation. Curious about pretty much everything else. Some singing. Cats. (Politically restricted)
Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk
Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social Palliative Medicine Consultant 🩺
in North East England,
NIHR Doctoral Fellow,
PhD on #Inequalities in lung disease, #Mesothelioma #LungCancer #COPD #ILD🫁
🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ 💪🏻 #WomenInMedicine
Book/coffee/travel/photography enthusiast
☕️📚📷 🌊⛰️
Thea Stein @theasrstein.bsky.social Chief Executive @NuffieldTrust - curious and questioning. Listening and learning. Views my own.
Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social Chief Exec, Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, UK. Farming, Monmouthshire, Wales. Governor, Royal Agricultural University. Trustee, St George’s House. Woman. On. A. Mission.
Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social Ex-director of analysis @HealthFdn,ex-Whitehall civil servant & NHS England.
Love ideas, numbers, analysis, evidence, debate and challenge. Views my own.
Luke O’Shea @lukeoshea.bsky.social Director of Innovation, University College London Hospitals. Views my own
Chris Creegan @chriscreegan.bsky.social Public policy consultant, Non-executive, Runner.
www.chriscreegan.co.uk
https://open.substack.com/pub/chriscreegan
Petra Meier @pmeierprof.bsky.social Prof of Public Health University of Glasgow. Health & econ inequalities; climate; systems. Mum. Private account
Jenny Cockin @jennyck.bsky.social Work: assistant director comms - @healthfoundation.bsky.social better health & health care | School governor & SEND link | Other: exploring, art/design, open water swimming, music, allotment | she/her | views: own
Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy & Co-Lead of SHERU (the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit). Interested in research, advocacy and policy to reduce inequalities.
Sarah Jane Reed @sjanereed.bsky.social Senior Fellow @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social; health policy on both sides of the pond. Research interests varied — but lots on international comparisons and NHS reform.
Josh Keith @keithjosh.bsky.social Assistant Director of Data analytics at the Health Foundation | Data, analysis, health and technology | Views my own.
Warren Escadale @vsnwescadale.bsky.social Chief executive of Voluntary sector north west. Chair of Greater Manchester VCFSE Leaders Group, and VCFSE partner member on Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. Championing meaningful devolution and sector’s role in making it work.
Tim Gardner @timgardnerthf.bsky.social Policy wonk at Health Foundation, interested in health system performance, health care quality and role of policy in driving improvement. Also cycling, coffee, cake. Views personal, etc.
Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social Doctor, patient advocate, Trustee Patients Association, Picker Institute. Person centred, high value care, shared decision making, support for self management. Ex Health Foundation, NHS England. Rugby, family, good food. Personal views
Alex Kennedy @kennedyalex.bsky.social Policy person at the Health Foundation - working on wider determinants of health, missions etc.
Previous jobs about mental health and homelessness. E17.
Ian Burbidge @ianburbidge.bsky.social Systems entrepreneur | Writer, Speaker, Innovator, Collaborator | Helping purpose-driven teams change systems for the better.
🌐 ianburbidge.com
James Toop @jtoop.bsky.social Chief Executive Bite Back
Former Chief Executive Ambition Institute
Chair Education for the 21st Century
Rockefeller-Acumen Food Systems Fellow 2022
All views my own.
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social Expert by experience in healthcare management & policy, Chair National Voices, Trustee RVS, NED PHIN. Also cook, wine drinker, reader, gardener, walker, armchair art critic.
Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
Alexis Paton @dralexispaton.bsky.social Writer, academic and communicator #MedicalEthics, #DecisionMaking, #Health, #HealthInequalities, #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth, #MedicalSociology #Sociology. www.dralexispaton.com
Sally Gainsbury @sallygainsbury.bsky.social Senior Policy Analyst for the Nuffield Trust, writing and doing whatever-things-on-here-are-called about NHS funding, finance and healthcare equity
Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries @trdevries.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Health Complexity Center | Interested in contextual determinants of mental health (childhood adversity and stressful life events in particular), complexity science, measurement, and open science
Neil Tester @neiltester.bsky.social Interested in most things but especially health, social care and the voluntary sector. Freelance consultant: https://neiltesterconsulting.co.uk. Chair, Healthwatch Hertfordshire: https://www.healthwatchhertfordshire.co.uk/. My own views, naturally.
Sue Brown @suebrownsb.bsky.social Charity consultancy | Strategy | Governance | Policy influence consultancy/projects | Facilitation | I bring people together to create change | FRSA | parkrunner
Prof Mike Lewis (Reposts>Likes) @profm.bsky.social Life science and health research, quantum sensing, AI, genomics, sensors, synthetic data, engineered biology.
Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness.
Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it
https://voices.nejm.org/browse/voices-series/theodore-iwashyna
Nora Skjerdingstad @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social PhD(DPhil) student | University of Oxford | Department of Experimental Psychology | Social anxiety in CYP | Social media | Quant
Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social Senior Postdoc @ Oxford Psychiatry & Fulford Junior Research Fellow @ Somerville College. Researching children & young people's mental health, with a focus on the intersections of mental health & education 🌻
(she/her)
Dr. Jonas Thorborg Stage @jtstage.bsky.social Postdoc at the Health Services Research section at the University of Copenhagen. Visiting Research Fellow at @King’s College London. Researching health inequities, digital health, and participatory approaches for inclusive, sustainable healthcare systems.
Jane O'Hara @janekohara.bsky.social Professor. THIS Institute, University of Cambridge. Patient safety geek. Also health services and policy researcher. Opinions: own. #academicsky #safetysky #hfesky #gardening 🌱
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5551-9975
Bobby Duffy @bobbyduffy.bsky.social Director, Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science
Steven Cummins @stevencjcummins.bsky.social Geographer, population health scientist. Professor of Population Health @ LSHTM.
Chair of Governors, Harris Academy Greenwich; Trustee, Townley Grammar
Track/Road/XC (Cambridge Harriers AC), Lacrosse (Buckhurst Hill LC)
#obesity #food #running #lax
Ally Brown @allybrown.bsky.social Research Associate in Social Policy @ Strathclyde Uni.
Food policy for THRIVING Food Futures.
Also policy approaches to health inequalities, and to mental health.
Anna Feuchtwang @annafeuchtwang.bsky.social Chief Executive National Children's Bureau. These are my views not necessarily theirs.
Cynthia Cox @cynthiaccox.bsky.social Senior Vice President @KFF.org #HealthPolicy. Focus on the #AffordableCareAct health care costs, outcomes & access to care. Lead a partnership with the Peterson Center on Healthcare tracking U.S. health system performance www.healthsystemtracker.org- L Luke Munford @lukemunford.bsky.social Applied/health economist at the University of Manchester interested in inequalities. Proud to be from Shildon
Sir David Haslam @david-haslam.bsky.social Dad and Grandad, Former GP and ex Chair of NICE, Ex President & Chair RCGP & BMA.
Author: “Side Effects. How our healthcare lost its way, and how we fix it”. A Book of the Week in The Observer. “Brilliant! (Their words!)
www.haslam.org
Sarah Davidson @sarahdavidson.bsky.social CEO, Carnegie UK - the wellbeing policy foundation. Hon Prof at Centre for Public Policy at Glasgow University. Chair of WEvolution Scotland.
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Camille Oung @camille-oung.bsky.social Fellow @NuffieldTrust - mostly musing about social care & health policy
Nicola Fulton @nicolafulton.bsky.social Strategic engagement lead at www.genomicsengland.co.uk, on a secondment from www.ons.gov.uk. Ex-NHS England digital team.
Data, health, social care, autism, LD, caring, travel, gigs, coffee. A Scot who 💙s living in SE London.
Chris Graham @chrisgrahamuk.bsky.social Chief Executive at Picker. Interested in health policy, person centred care, and in understanding, measuring, and improving patient and staff experiences. All views are my own, reposts are not endorsements.
Don Redding @mightydredd.bsky.social Freelance research, policy advice, project delivery on person centred care, patient engagement, NHS policy, voluntary sector, coproduction, coordinated care. Former policy director, National Voices. Luna the setter is my helper.
Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social Health policy and research.
Passionate about social, economic, health, and disability justice.
💚 Socialist 🌹 trade unionist ✊ metalhead 🤘 (she/her)
Sharlene McGee @sharlenemcgee.bsky.social Health inequalities, inclusive economies, devolution, employment & welfare
@healthfoundation.bsky.social
Previously working on disability, social care & carers policy
Tammy Campbell @drtammycampbell.bsky.social Director for Early Years, Inequalities and Wellbeing @edupolicyinst.bsky.social | Visiting Senior Fellow @ CASE LSE | Views my own | Life doesn't have to be unfair | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tammy-Campbell-2
Rich Taunt @handle.invalid Part of @kscopehealth.bsky.social. Stuff on health & how to improve it. Occasionally veering into south London life.
Jon Rouse @jonrouse.bsky.social Service : Music : Books : Nature : Sport : Faith
Harry QP @harryqp.bsky.social Director of IPPR. Progressive policy and politics. Non-Exec Director at West London NHS Trust.
Harry Rutter @harryrutter.bsky.social Prof of Global Public Health, University of Bath. European.
Iain Buchan @profbuchan.bsky.social W.H. Duncan Chair in Public Health Systems, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Innovation, University of Liverpool @LivUni; public health physician; data scientist; social impact seeker; views own
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان
Pronounced /nisri:n/ with an s not a z and a long ee ☺️
Professor of Public Health MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Still curious
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
💚 🧿 🌻
Megan Blake @geofoodie.bsky.social Researcher of #foodscapes, how to repair the effects of food insecurity and transition toward more healthy and just local food systems. Interested in creating impact. Developer of #FoodLadders. #Geography #foodstudies See more on http://geofoodie.org
Andrew Fenton @fentonaw.bsky.social Population Health & Inequalities with NHS SCW. Tweet on health & inequalities, cat pics, Port Meadow views. Runner & occasional triathlete.
https://www.tumblr.com/fentonaw
Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social Senior Strategist at the National Immigration Law Center. Health and immigration policy issues mostly, with a focus on Congress and politics. Also neighborhood and housing issues as a hobby. Dad of 2 cute wild kids.
Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social Professor of Food Marketing and Child Health, Department of Psychology.
Deputy Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.
Interested in food marketing exposure, persuasive power, behavioural impact, & public health policy.
Alastair H Leyland @alastairleyland.bsky.social Prof of Population Health Stats, Associate Director & co-Head of Inequalities Programme, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Chair of EUPHA Section Council. My views.
Kim Shutler @kimshutler.bsky.social CEO at The Cellar Trust mental health charity & West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Sector Lead for the VCSE. Happily woke. Geeky about VCSE, health & care, integration, leadership and tackling inequalities. MBE. Views my own.
Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social •Hon University Fellow- Fac Health
•Founder The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
•Patient Safety
•Hoping for a Social Media Platform where everyone can live together peacefully
#Oliverscampaign
Geraint Lewis @geraintlewis.bsky.social
Tim Senior @timsenior.bsky.social Deep End GP & Churchill Fellow working on Dharawal Country in Aboriginal Community Control. Complex clinical care, policy, education, writing on Indigenous Health, Health Equity, that sort of stuff. Play viola and football, but not at the same time.
William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social Policy, Public Affairs and Electoral Analysis (and occasionally Photography)
'Political Analyst' - Aaron H. Ellis
Views my own
Writes at https://thepartyanimal.substack.com/
@joefd.bsky.social @joefd.bsky.social
Jon Sparkes @jonsparkes.bsky.social Chief Executive of Mencap the national learning disability charity. All views expressed here are personal views.
Zoë Billingham @zoebillingham.bsky.social Director of IPPR North in Manchester. Economist focused on people’s lived experience. Regional policy. Views my own.
Dave Finch @davefinch.bsky.social Assistant Director, Healthy Lives
The Health Foundation
Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social Consultant in Public Health at Bradford Institute for Health Research. Interested in quantitative research methods and mental health
Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social Nursing Professor Diversity, Social Justice. Culture gender, health, later intensive care nursing, stroke. Social media learning. All views are my own 🇹🇹 https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/persons/calvin-moorley
Neil McInroy @neilmcinroy.bsky.social Progressive economics. Working in USA, Scotland and globally.
Global Lead for #communitywealthbuilding at The Democracy Collaborative
Chair Economic Development Association of Scotland (EDAS)
Becks Fisher @becksfisher.bsky.social Director of Research & Policy @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social, NHS GP, Harkness 22/23, co-founder of Next Generation GP. She/her. Views my own. Usually running.
Sam Atwell @swjatwell.bsky.social 💼 Employment and health at the Health Foundation. Trustee at Big Futures Foundation.
Ruth Rankine @rrankine.bsky.social Director of Primary Care, NHS Confederation
Ruth Tennant @rtennant.bsky.social Director of Public Health, education and inclusion for Solihull. Into public sector reform, localism, running and being busy.
Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social NIHR Research Professor
Professor of Medicine at LSHTM.
Lead for Integrated Academic Training at LSHTM.
Consultant in Infectious Diseases at UCLH.
Syphilis & STIs, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Group A Strep, Pragmatic Trials
Susan Hopkins @smhopkins.bsky.social CEO, UKHSA
Infectious diseases clinician and epidemiologist
Hon Consultant Infectious Diseases, Royal Free London
Hon Prof Infectious Diseases & Health Security, UCL
Rebecca Best @rebeccabest.bsky.social Midwife turned public health registrar. Co-chair of FPH Health of Women and Girls SIG. Views my own. She/her
Isaac Florence @isaac-florence.bsky.social Head of Health Protection Intelligence, Systems, and Data @ UK Health Security Agency.
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Civil Servant, Global health person
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacflorence
Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social Consultant in Public Health at Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Views my own. Interested in health inequalities, social justice and musical theatre. Not always in that order. She/her
Training in Public Health (TiPH) Podcast @tiph-podcast.bsky.social A podcast panoramic of what it means to work in Public Health - Hosted by Josh Howkins and Kazim Beebeejaun
Listen to podcast: https://linktr.ee/tiph.podcast
Kazim Beebeejaun @kazimbb.bsky.social Consultant Epidemiologist @UKHSA - Infectious Diseases / FETP/EPIET Alumni c2017 - Co-host of TiPH Podcast
#infectiousdiseases #epidemiology #publichealth, #technology #globalhealth
@simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social
Dr Kev Smith FFPH @smithkjj.bsky.social Public Health consultant. DD HCPH NHSE NEY. Deputy Chair Examiner MFPH.. Actually Autistic. Scouser in Sheffield.
Andrew McAuley @arjmcauley.bsky.social Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University and Consultant at Public Health Scotland in the drugs/BBV field. Sport and Music fan. Views my own.
Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social #BehaviouralScience, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London. Director of Centre for Behaviour Change https://www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/centre-behaviour-change (also on BlueSky). Research on health, environment & AI potential.