Public Health is my jam (and my day job) but opinions are my own. NHS PH Registrar & Clinical Lecturer @theSPHSU. @rachelthomson.bsky.social
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🚨New paper: Our systematic review evaluating current practice in measuring environmental sustainability (ES) impacts of AI in radiology is now published in BMJ Digital Health and AI: doi.org/10.1136/bmjdhai-2025…
Key findings below👇[1/5]
🖥️However, there was little consistency in how outcomes were reported, and no studies compared climate outcomes of clinical pathways with and without AI. We argue for better integration of environmental impact assessment into AI health research and evaluation [4/5]
Hugely grateful to @NHS_Education for funding the NHS Clinical Fellowship in AI which facilitated this work, and to the Digital Health Validation Lab in @NHSGGC and @UofGlasgow for hosting me! #radiology #AI #digitalhealth #sustainability [5/5]
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📢 It's #ChallengePovertyWeek!
💡New research led by @UofGlasgow is exploring how income support policies – like basic income & living wage – could improve health outcomes & cut child poverty across the UK.
➡️Read more about the MicMac project here: tinyurl.com/4n27nckf
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Free public event. Come along to the @womenslibrary today to hear about what some of our @SocSocMed researchers have been working on #WomensHealth #ssm2024
@SocSocMed @UofGPE @UofGByresHub @theSPHSU
🗓️Friday 6th September, 2-4pm
📍Glasgow Women’s Library in Bridgeton
Come along to @womenslibrary to hear short talks and chat to researchers working on issues around women’s health and wellbeing. All welcome!
@SocSocMed @UofGPE @UofGByresHub @theSPHSU
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🗓️Friday 6th September, 2-4pm
📍Glasgow Women’s Library in Bridgeton
Come along to @womenslibrary to hear short talks and chat to researchers working on issues around women’s health and wellbeing. All welcome!
@SocSocMed @UofGPE @UofGByresHub @theSPHSU
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After lunch we had a really insightful panel discussion with @Rachel_Thomson @DukeStokes @SteveJMcCall and Rosie Seaman from @RDS_Scotland on navigating careers in interdisciplinary research 🪢🔍
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It was a privilege to present at the @UN Office on Drugs and Crime consultation on "Social Media Use and Drug Use Prevention.” Three days filled with stimulating discussions and the chance to connect with insightful individuals!
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So pleased to have this paper out in @socscimed with many thanks to @P_H_S_Official for this helpful summary of the highlights of the review. Posting a longer🧵for those who want to delve in (1/n)
We’ve worked with others to publish a paper in @socscimedon - the relationship between changes in the size of economies and mortality-derived population health measures in high income countries: a causal systematic review
Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@rachwestbourne
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Meeting even the least ambitious #childpoverty reduction target could make a marked difference to children’s health in the UK, according to the latest health data modelling research led by @theSPHSU
More 👉gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1098…
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🏳️🌈We our recruiting for our Lived Experience Advisory Board🏳️🌈
If you live in the UK, are LGBTQ+, have lived experience of suicidal thoughts, feelings or attempts, and would like to help develop our research, we’d love to hear from you.
For more info: blogs.ed.ac.uk/rain_within_t…
Great to see our modelling study looking at the impact of reducing child poverty on health inequalities getting picked up in the media today. Full paper available in
@JECH_BMJ here ➡️ doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-22…
Ditching two-child benefit cap would cut deaths and A&E admissions, study says theguardian.com/society/arti…
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Delighted to have @Rachel_Thomson as our next guest on the 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast. Listen and learn about her research evaluating the impacts of #UBI on mental health inequalities. 🎙️
➡️share.transistor.fm/s/18ef93…
#HealthInequalities #BasicIncome @SPHSU_ineq
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🆕systematic review finds consistent evidence of a relationship between #austerity policies and harmful impacts on mortality outcomes in high-income countries, regardless of the measure of austerity used.
@gerrymccartney1 @vkatikireddi @SPHSU_ineq
tinyurl.com/mtz94yxj 👇
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STUDENTS: REGISTER TO VOTE RIGHT NOW!
The law is as follows.
1. You can register at home AND at your term-time address, if that's more convenient for you.
2. You can CHOOSE on the day where to vote.
3. But you can ONLY legally vote in ONE place on the day.
electoralcommission.org.uk/v…
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🧵 New Special Communication examines drawing causal inferences about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals and suggests a framework that might be used.
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The 2nd study from my PhD is out today in @TheLancetPH projecting socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity in England up to 2049 🎉☀️
📖 bit.ly/3TCSdJb
@moflaher @ssm
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Fully funded PhD scholarship on "The health and wellbeing impacts of the energy transition for low-income renters: A comparative UK-Australia study". Based partly in Glasgow and partly in Sydney. See: gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsci… @UofGSPS