Jocalyn Clark
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International Editor @bmj_latest Former @TheLancet @PLOSMedicine @icddr_b Adj prof @UofT_DOM @UCLGlobalHealth Canadian in London 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #TeamLH Views mine 🖌️
London, England
Joined July 2011
Er. mic drop?. I'm looking at you, Canada. #behavingbadly. (My favourite Lancet cover of all time).
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“Pandemic profits are so immense that billionaires could provide a $3,000 Covid stimulus payment to every man, woman & child in the US & still be richer than they were 9 months ago.”
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📍Personal news📍I’m excited to be joining The BMJ as International Editor❗️. 20 years after starting my editorial career @bmj_latest I am returning to help deliver its ambitious & vital global vision to improve the health and wellbeing (& equity) of people and the planet 🌐🔹🎯.
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@paimadhu Let me wash that out for ya 📢.“There cannot be excellence without equity”.“There cannot be excellence without equity”.“There cannot be excellence without equity”.“There cannot be excellence without equity”.
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6 months to the day that I wrote our lead @TheLancet editorial on a mysterious new pneumonia-like outbreak drafting it in 3 hours instead of the usual 3 days. Colleagues gave input in 1 h instead of 24 h. 6 months for the world to change forever. #writing.
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During his speech @DrTedros gives moving, off-script remarks expressing pain and dismay at escalating situation today in #Tigray.
“The default health worker is a woman so it is right that we take time to recognize and applaud the work of women. It is my intention that we will care for you as you have cared for us.”. @DrTedros, @WHO at the #HeroinesofHealth award gala
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@paimadhu On the myth of meritocracy . “underlying biases are causing current systems to bypass highly capable women & other minority groups. We are drawing heterosexual, white men from much further down the distribution of talent than for other social categories.”.
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🌐💥 For the 1st time since 1840, Decolonisation takes over the BMJ print issue 💥🌐
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Today we publish a piece calling 4 more balanced representation in @TheLancet Commissions. Transparency & publication of external 'audits' is part of our #DiversityandInclusion #LancetWomen commitments. We promised to track progress & improve!
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More than 50% women 🙌🏼 incredible effort & positive change by chief Editors of all 18 Lancet journals👇🏼 Let’s start a trend for other journals @choo_ek @reshmajagsi @JulieSilverMD.
We are delighted to announce that in January 2020, our editorial advisory boards now comprise 50.6% women overall (range 35% to 63%). Across 19 journals, 16 have more than 50% women members.
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1 week to go #LancetCanada - our 1st-ever @TheLancet series on Canada's health system and global health leadership: its legacy, the future, and the responsibilities of Canada in an uncertain world. Hot off the printing press, this will land online Feb 23.
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Big news! Today we launch our new #LancetWomen hub of content on #genderequity & advancing #womeninmedicine #womeninGH #womeninSTEM We will update it regularly in the months leading to our theme issue in early 2019.
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I've always loved this graphic for #WorldMosquitoDay v @BillGates - puts things in perspective
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What distinguishes this new #remdesivir trial in @TheLancet is that it was:. 1. Peer-reviewed & professionally edited. 2. Done by scientists w/o financial or other links to the drug's manufacturer, Gilead. 3. Was "well conducted w/ high protocol adherence & no loss to followup". .
NEW Research—First randomised trial of #remdesivir for hospitalised patients who are critically ill with #COVID19 suggests antiviral drug is not associated with significant clinical benefits vs placebo: study of 237 adults from 10 hospitals in Wuhan (1/5)
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The #LancetWomen theme issue is live Feb 7 at 23.30 UK time. All content will be freely available (with registration) at & the livestreams for London (Fri Feb 8) & NYC (Mon Feb 11) launch events are at our #LancetWomen landing page:
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Thrilled & honoured to have been inducted as a fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, joining the company of extraordinary scholars & leaders in service of 🇨🇦 🌎
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Dear journal editors, media, conference organisers, government or anyone else looking to diversify your networks - this List of women experts in #globalhealth is for you. Pls share and utilise us! #CWIGH #FCSM #nomoremanels
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Trump is scooping up the world’s remdesivir. It’s a sign of things to come // by @devisridhar
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How is it that America’s preeminent medical journal does an otherwise amazing thing like publish 11 new pieces on the devastation of gun violence & not once mention the role and horror of the NRA fuelling such a public health crisis??.
#FirearmViolence in the US is an unrelenting concern of major proportion. This issue of JAMA includes 11 scholarly Viewpoints that provide state-of-the-science information about a wide range of issues related to firearms and violence in the US.
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🧵 Proud of Decolonising Health & Medicine project @bmj_latest and my team & co for the hard work + self-reflection that equity movements ask of us. 🌐 Open to all feedback but I won’t waver from the belief that you can’t be a journal or editor in international health without:.
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So proud of the work @TheLancet is leading on #genderequity & #DiversityandInclusion. Our continued commitments have a prominent place in our 1st leader for 2020 (well done @drzucc). So much going on it's hard to fit into 700 words. Pls RT: #LancetWomen
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Time flies! 3⃣ yrs since inception & #LancetWomen work continues. In 2018, our editorial advisory boards = 30% women (range 6% - 45%). 0 had more women than men. 1/2 had < 30% women. In 2019 we reached gender parity. Today, 53% of 712 board members for our 23 journals are women.
2 years ago, we published a special theme issue, #LancetWomen, highlighting how gender bias has stalled women’s advancement in science, medicine, and🌎health. Today, we highlight key milestones and reinforce our commitment to #genderequality.
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Dexamethasone may be part of the Covid-19 puzzle but it's no magic bullet | via @DeviSridhar
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Lovely & inspiring as always to talk shop with @paimadhu who’s admired in 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🌎 for his global health advocacy & making us editors better at allyship 🙏 ☀️
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This is it. Clear, cogent thinking about a way out of this #COVID-19 #mustread: "The lockdown only buys us time: to really defeat the virus we need mass testing now" via @DeviSridhar
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If you ever needed proof of WHO using public praise and soft power to get rascal member states in line . .
I am glad to see the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧 increasing their testing capacity significantly. Testing is key to identify where the virus is coming from and to defeat it. Together, my friend @MattHancock! .#COVID19 .
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"Diversity is a fact while inclusion is a choice." Credit & thanks to @picardonhealth & @ImogenRCoePhD, who wrote in 2017 @globeandmail op-ed that there need be an end to #manels #NoMoreManels Providing inspiration for our new policy @TheLancet
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Spoiler: not enough women. Work to be done by all of us in academic medicine ecosystem. #genderequity #WomenInMedicine #publishing
Today we publish a new #LancetWomen collection of content, including an external assessment of #author #gender in our Lancet journals Register for monthly updates in the lead up to our theme issue
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An update on @TheLancet’s planned theme issue on women in science, medicine, and global health. Since the Mar 1 deadline we have been busy reading! We got an overwhelming response – nearly 300 submissions – about 3 times what we expected. THANK YOU #LancetWomen
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Here’s the full editorial arguing for a shift in funding toward the social, behavioural and environmental determinants of health #SDOH
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"Women literally change science, make it more robust and inclusive, and ensure equity in how it is organised.".#WomenInSTEM .#WomenInMedicine .
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Delighted to be profiled for 'thinking outside the box' along the chief @DrTedros! (and many other inspiring health leaders) #WomenInSTEM
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5 papers, 5 commentaries, 2 profiles, 1 podcast & lots of related content @TheLancet journals. We've got you covered on #GenderNormsandHealth #WD2019 Massively proud of the #genderequity #LancetWomen work & commitment with @richardhorton1 #HeforShe See
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📣Great NEW content featured on @TheLancet homepage - "Advancing women in science & health" . 1/ Black #womeninmedicine - rising above invisibility by @onyi_eke @OnyekaOtugo @DrJessIsomMDMPH .
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Sooo excited for this & to showcase the extraordinary work of #womeninSTEM #WomenInMedicine #womeningh and others working on #genderequity. With 330+ submissions to our call for papers, we are publishing the cream of the crop! #LancetWomen.
1 month to go: We are delighted to announce our #LancetWomen theme issue will publish on Friday February 8. Sign up for updates & read the collection so far #womeninSTEM #WomeninGH
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Our female reviewers have gone from 22% to 28% in the last year - the right direction of travel, with more commitment to diversity to come. #LancetWomen #genderequity Our words of appreciation in this week's issue @TheLancet:
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Our next #LancetWomen hub update is coming soon. Sign up for our monthly newsletter to get all the details & extra special editorial commentary from @drzucc & I straight to your inbox: #genderequality #DiversityandInclusion #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
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📢Call for papers on racial equality & health - deadline Jan 31, 2022. ✍️🏽Read all about it via @pam_das @mandipaujla Mabel Chew👇🏽.
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No publicity is bad publicity. Thanks @elonmusk.
@SwipeWright Someone needs to fire that editor.
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I'd prefer we compared leadership styles rather than risk essentialism. But in this case it does seem women heads of state delivered better & more effective #COVID19 leadership than men. Female-led countries handled coronavirus better, says new study
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The #LancetWomen monthly missive is here! If you're not yet on our list, visit to subscribe. And while you're there check out our new @TheLancet content this month + an introduction to our Advisory Group members.
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Attending #WLGH18? Don't miss the session on journal editors & sex/gender equity - featuring the rockstar that is @Laurie_Garrett and her sidekick (me). We promise provocation! Thurs Nov 8 16.10-17.10. #LancetWomen #womeninmedicine #womeningh
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We are sending a humdinger of a #LancetWomen newsletter out tomorrow for #IWD19 - so pls subscribe here if you haven’t already #genderequity #Womeninmedicine #womeningh @TheLancet @DrZucc
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Oh this is such great news #womeninSTEM Thank u @LSHTM & (@sneweyy) Pioneering women to be formally honored to right 'historic injustice' in science
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@MarinaPurkiss Imagine how free from accountability you feel to be comfortable knowing you are vulnerable to being compromised for borrowing the £800k….
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So proud of this cover (and content). These are deliberate editorial choices. They are not inevitable. #DiversityandInclusion #BlackLivesMatter.
On this week's cover—Profile of Uché Blackstock (@uche_blackstock): dismantling structural racism in health care
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I’ll keep on shouting about the centrality of gender to #COVID-19 until it becomes central to the global response 📣 —> Women 'put careers on hold' to home school during lockdown #genderequity #globaldev
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A delight (& rare privilege) to have my work on how women’s expertise was invisibilised during covid19 featured on cover of this week’s @bmj_latest ❗️. The team commissioned cover art from a women illustrator, the sensational Raphaelle Martin ❗️
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So excited to be soon launching @TheLancet Series on Canada! Join us in Ottawa or by livestream: #LancetCanada
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We continue to have a fantastic response to our #LancetWomen theme issue. In today's issue we publish 3 new letters, the first batch in a bunch more to come. Thank you to all correspondents! See also
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“The world order has utterly failed civilians, health professionals & humanitarian workers”. NEW Editorr’s Choice @KamranAbbasi @bmj_latest The BMJ
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“Change is inevitable. It’s how we get there that matters.”. My profile of @AlikaMD for @TheLancet . Alika Lafontaine: Indigenous and Canadian change maker
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#TBT to 6 months ago today, when we published #LancetWomen @TheLancet theme issue. I'll share some highlights & updates. Here's the full issue:
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NEW The BMJ publishes 3 commentaries that reflect on the landmark @Economy4Health @WHO report and what it will take to reimagine economies to drive global equity & planetary health . 1/ from @mazzucatoM summarises Council work .
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“He will reach out to Tony Fauci. He will declare his intent to be an active participant in @WHO & in the world. And I believe that in very short order, he’ll be in touch with governors & mayors around the country, listening to what they’ll need to pivot this response.” #covid19.
BREAKING: Biden's top health advisers say he’s already preparing an unprecedented, mid-pandemic transition of power that aims to reboot the federal government’s Covid-19 response.
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Excited to launch our #CWIGH List of Canadian women leaders in #globalhealth at #CCGH2018 conference. This List was 8 months in gestation - had its genesis in our #LancetCanada Series that brought outstanding Canadians together 🇨🇦@TheLancet @womeninGH @CSIH_
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When you consider gender equality in leadership, it opens you to seeing.📍the value of diversity in perspectives.📌 the importance of inclusion of ideas.📍the bias in our systems & status quo that limits progress on the health equity we seek. So what are you waiting for #WHA75?
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Why is #genderequity in publishing so key? . Publications ➕citations 🟰recognition, visibility & credit that compounds massively 📈. Of the 45 most prolific covid authors (each with >60 papers in the first 18 months alone) just 5 (11%) are women ❕. More 👇.
The biases in scientific publishing during the pandemic damaged women’s visibility, recognition, and career advancement, reports @jocalynclark
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Yes you read that correctly - India sent Canada 500K vaccine doses back in March when Canada asked. And now Canada is letting thousands++ of vaccine expire when Indians are in crisis and IN NEED. This is APPALLING. I am not OK with this, either.
Thousands of Astra-Zeneca doses are about to expire this weekend in Ontario, while thousands of Indians are dying each day, without access to vaccination. 500K more Indians would have been vaccinated had they not sent Canada those doses in our time of need. I am not OK with this.
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Oh good god this thread is golden. #manels #mapers #mantoring. Welcome to gender bias in academia (and publishing). Thank you @choo_ek for letting us laugh so we don’t cry.
Thrilled to work with @DGlaucomflecken to develop an infographic about correct nomenclature when discussing gender bias in academia. Follow along.
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#ICYMI The @TheLancet editors explain our rationale, plans and progress on gender & diversity in this new commentary. Pls RT, share and send your FEEDBACK / we want to hear from readers 👉🏼 #LancetWomen
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"#COVID-19 gives the lie to #globalhealth expertise." I did not see this before publication. This is the best thing I've read all week. #mustread #inequalities #power THANK YOU @Sarah_Dlish
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#ICYMI #mustread --> Coronavirus Coverage and the Silencing of Female Expertise via @undarkmag #LancetWomen #WomeninSTEM #COVID19.
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Oh the paternalism and arrogance and dismissiveness of "there's only so many (safe) vaccine factories in the world" nonsense - breathtaking. Glad it's caught on tape. #VaccinEquity.
Unbelievable: Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn’t be shared with developing world. Surprised with the muted response from otherwise very vocal #globalhealth Twitter. How can you call for vaccine equity and have no reaction to this?
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Pleased this systematic review is published today. NEW: Organisational Strategies to deliver #genderequity #healthcare #leadership . Want to #FixSystemsNotWomen? This is your evidence-based one stop shop:.
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Women & Girls:.-Bear the greatest burden of nearly every disease & disaster.-Represent the majority of health workers & caretakers .-Have the right to a seat at the decision-making table.Demand #genderequality in #globalhealth leadership at #WLGH2020.
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Delighted to 🚀 NEW podcast & series in The BMJ: .📌what next for decolonising health & medicine? .❓whose perspectives are missing from the agenda? .📢how should institutions change? .👇why are colonial histories so key to present health inequities?.
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Delighted to Call for Papers for a @TheLancet theme issue on women in science, medicine & global health Pls RT! #LancetWomen
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Delighted to be elected to @RCPEdin / Grateful to @ProfIAbubakar for being a wonderful colleague + champion (for many) + nominator and to the Royal College for embracing professional editors as fellows. #WomenInMedicine #Womeningh #heforshe
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This MAKES NO SENSE, is offensive, and is unacceptable (to me). FFS. Can we ask the male panelists what they were thinking?.
Only when there are also women experts in the pannel of Mothers and Newborns. Unacceptable to have men- only webinars on women health #Covid19 @IPA @FIGO @UNICEF @WHO @UNFPA @world_midwives @WomenDeliver @SheDecidesKenya @TheLancet @UN_Women.
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"Structural racism influences the data science workforce & the hierarchies within it, the datasets collected & who is represented within them & the research questions pursued and prioritised.". Challenging racism in the use of health data
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This is what LEADERSHIP looks like. (It's not about winning).
BREAKING GOOD NEWS ALERT:. New Zealand has announced it no longer has any patients in hospital being treated for coronavirus. It comes on the fifth straight day where no new cases have been reported. This is what winning looks like. 🇳🇿
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Intersectionality & why it matters to global health --> #TBT #intersectionality #globalhealth #LancetWomen #DiversityAndInclusion
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If you haven’t fulfilled your promises to COVAX, now’s the time. If you haven’t delivered on promises of global health solidarity, now’s the time. If you have yet to realise the pandemic is not over until everyone in the world is protected, now’s the time.
We’ve come a long way since December 14th, 2020, when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines were being administered. Now, more than 63 million have been administered. To everyone who’s been a part of that, thank you. And if you haven’t gotten your shots yet, now’s the time.
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Disappointing behaviour from PMAC which "strives to create a fairer & more equitable world". And - "The BMJ was also removed from IOC and is no longer welcome at the conference". Censorship of grassroots voices at #GlobalHealth conference raises concerns
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Really grateful 🙏 for the opportunity to work with the incomparable @gdarmsta & his amazing colleagues on @TheLancet #GenderNormsandHealth Series. That’s a wrap on our #WD2019 launch 🚀 but no end to our commitment 💪🏼 to #genderequity #DiversityandInclusion #SRHR #LancetWomen
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This editor v excited to read the #ForcesForChange special guest-edited issue of @BritishVogue / 🤔 How will it measure up to #LancetWomen, y’all? 👉🏼 🤷🏼♀️
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Here we introduce 7 new articles examining Canada’s #covid19 response & call for a national covid inquiry."Canadians delivered on the pandemic response while its governments faltered" ✍️.
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Last year’s news is this year’s problem to solve - visa discrimination in #globalhealth conferences is ongoing & needs a fix ❗️. NEW feature @bmj_latest 👇.🙏 @JesseBump @CKyobutungi @daktari1 @munkeatlooi #pmac2023
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This is heartbreaking and infuriating. Total failure of state leadership and foresight. Once again, the charity sector and goodwill of community members forced to step up to help. 💔 🇬🇧.
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They’ve removed the #allmalepanel programme from their website so I guess @RCPLondon @bmj_latest are re-thinking what #globalhealth means Good. And thanks #womeningh.
I want to get excited about this but I can’t get past the #allmalepanel - doesn’t look like #globalhealth to me @womeninGH @IlonaKickbusch.
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Rush of submissions from non-🇺🇦 HIC folks on 🇺🇦 situation. Yes there's relevant expertise outside the region. But as an editor I'm uncomfortable. Like COVID & #DecolonizeGH etc, it's HIC writers with the time, resources & chutzpah to go outside their lane & speak for others.
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📢🌐🇨🇦 The whole NEW @bmj_latest Series on Canada’s #covid19 response is freely available here . Read & share articles by experts & let us know what you think - will Canada get its needed national covid inquiry?.#cdnhealth #cdnpoli #healthequity
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At @TheLancet we take our series seriously: cycle desk adds some vim to sitting. #PhysAct2016 #editorslife
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File this under ‘gotta laugh or I will cry’ 🤣 “UAE's gender equality awards (including best personality!) won entirely by men” #genderequity
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“A renewed commitment + concrete steps are needed by non-Indigenous leaders & allies to support decolonising work so that it does not fall solely upon First Nations, Inuit + Métis peoples.”. Important new piece @TheLancet by @RicharLisa @drandrewb .
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Hard to believe it's been 1 yr since #LancetWomen theme issue (one of the best things of my life). Today on #WomeninScience day, we reflect on & plot plans for further progress. See -> @TheLancet twitter story & #WomenInMedicine #WomenInSTEM
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Gratified & grateful for 6+ incredible & productive years @TheLancet / So proud of the work we did & my amazing colleagues 💥.#LancetWomen #DiversityandInclusion .#genderequity . Ready for new challenges 🪅🚀💫 Excited for more connections & impact in #globalhealth @KamranAbbasi.
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"The scenes of suffering in India are hard to comprehend." And difficult to feel helpless as friends, colleagues, a nation are besieged. Here's our small contribution of solidarity and call to act. India's COVID-19 emergency
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