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Jocalyn Clark
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International Editor, The BMJ. Former editor The Lancet, icddr,b and PLOS Medicine. Adjunct faculty UofT and UCL. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Views mine.

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Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian public health scientist. She is the international editor of The BMJ, and has responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage. From 2016 to 2022, Jocalyn was an executive editor at The Lancet, where she led the Commentary section, coordinated peer review, and edited and delivered collections of articles and commissions on topics such as maternal and child health, oral health, migration, end of life care and gender equity. She led the Lancet's project to advance women in science, medicine, and global health, #LancetWomen. She is also an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. .. more

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 6h
🚨 Check out our new @bmj.com Collection on #WomensHealth #Innovation

www.bmj.com/collections/...

And register to join our Oct 21 webinar in the QR code below:
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 9h
Lessons from #EDI efforts in European clinical practice guidelines can inform inclusive & sex and gender sensitive innovation and research agendas

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Designing clinical practice guidelines for equitable, inclusive, and contextualised care
Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and colleagues argue that European clinical practice guidelines need standardised, inclusive, sex and gender sensitive development to not only guide healthcare but also drive i...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 9h
Women’s leadership can make health technologies more inclusive and impactful
Leadership and culture change to advance innovation in women’s health
Sapna Kedia and colleagues argue that equitable leadership, supported by training and systemic reform and rooted in marginalised groups’ experiences and community insight, can transform the innovation...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 9h
How can a decolonial feminist approach to #innovation produce greater #genderequality and health equity?
Decolonising women’s health innovation
Tiffany Nassiri-Ansari and colleagues set out how a decolonial feminist approach to innovation could produce greater gender equality and health equity The field of women’s health innovation is growin...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 11h
Effectiveness and impact of #Diagnostics depends on integration with local health systems, not just use of the #AI technology
AI supported diagnostic innovations for impact in global women’s health
Nina Linder and colleagues examine how artificial intelligence could be applied to diagnostic methods that rely on highly trained experts, such as cytological screening for cervical cancer, enabling i...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 11h
#femtech requires robust and stringent privacy and security safeguards because of sensitivity of data related to #SRHR
Effective regulation of technology in women’s health and healthcare
Carmel Schachar and colleagues argue that femtech requires robust and stringent privacy and security safeguards because of the sensitivity of the data The rise of direct-to-consumer technologies has...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 11h
Ethical use of #digitalhealth technologies is imperative to ensure research improves systems for #womenshealth
Digital health technologies to transform women’s health innovation and inclusive research
Bola Grace and colleagues argue that using digital health technologies ethically can increase the scope and scale of research and connect systems to improve women’s health Despite comprising over hal...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 12h
Bridging the sex and #gendergap through contemporary, innovative clinical trial designs is a crucial way forward
#HealthResearch #DigitalTools #AI
Innovative design and modelling to improve sex and gender analysis in clinical trials
Jane Hirst and colleagues argue that novel modelling approaches using routinely collected data can be only as representative and complete as the original data, and that bridging the sex and gender gap...
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 15h
Placing a few women, people of color, or a person with a disability on stage for the formal photo-opp, when only white men are in the leading roles, is not inclusion or diversity, it’s “diversity-washing”, diversion and deception. 🤬
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d
And to the rest of us. #globalhealthsecurity
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d
🇺🇸 Almost unbelievable that the powers-that-be in the US would imperil their country, the health of the nation. their economy, and the rest of us with these decisions gutting CDC.
Massacre is apt.
Impossible to recover from.
What a bunch of boneheads. What a world.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d
We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d
This guy is now effectively doing MBS propaganda for free, making out that what what needs to change in Saudi Arabia is the general culture, rather than the specific ruling regime. Once again, petrodollars buy us a fascinating case study in motivated reasoning.

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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili
The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d
“The growing movement around women’s health innovation is to be welcomed. But to be genuinely transformative, it must be political”

@jocalynclark.bsky.social @bmj.com

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Upending women’s health
This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks o...
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d
We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 2d
In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.

Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
Peace is the Prize: Why this Year’s Nobel Award Should be the Last - World Peace Foundation
Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 2d
That makes you the vixen! 😉
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 2d
NEW: The BMJ Collection on Women’s Health Innovation, developed w/ @gatesfoundation.bsky.social is now live
www.bmj.com/collections/...

@jocalynclark.bsky.social is in Berlin this week for the Gates Foundation Innovation Equity Forum & #WHS2025 to highlight the Collection’s insights #GlobalHealth
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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · 2d
AI can increase access to #CervicalCancer screening in low-resource settings, but the technology requires investments throughout the entire healthcare chain to be effective. New study from KI, Uppsala University and @helsinki.fi published in @bmj.com today 🧪 #GlobalHealth news.ki.se/ai-can-impro...
Information about an AI-based research project for women's health in Kenya and Tanzania. Photo: Johan Lundin
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Nature @nature.com · 3d
Of the 202 Nobel laureates who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.

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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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ODI Global @odi.global · 3d
With official aid is shrinking, can philanthropy fill the gap? Or is it time to rethink the system entirely?

A new episode of our #ThinkChangePodcast asks how development cooperation must evolve in a changing world. 🎧
Think Change episode 82: From aid to alliances – how should development cooperation evolve?
This episode examines the evolving role of philanthropy in shaping global development cooperation at a time when official aid is under strain.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 3d
I welcome President Trump's announcement about the ceasefire in #Gaza & hostage release. It is a big step towards lasting peace for both Israelis & Palestinians. I hope all parties will respect the agreement, so the suffering of all civilians finally ends & all hostages are brought home respectfully
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 5d
🇺🇸 The plans laid out in the new US #globalhealth strategy depend on credibility the Trump administration does not have, write Larry Gostin & Steve Morrison in @bmj.com
Promise and gaps in America First strategy for global health
Plans are based on credibility the Trump administration does not have Just before the 2025 UN General Assembly, US secretary of state Marco Rubio released the America First Global Health Strategy .1 ...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 5d
"TBI is not advocating for building that capacity within the NHS. They are saying: let’s outsource to our buddies.”

"I’m an African, I have lived experience, and I’m saying these things, but I wasn’t being listened to. You have to downplay those negative things...”

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 5d
Finally someone digs into the problematic conflicts of interest baked into the business model of Tony Blair Institute.

TB's "trademark evangelism is now focused on AI, its power to transform government & why everyone should listen to Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle" (and the head of EIT).
Blair and the Billionaire
Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 5d
Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

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Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’
Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel
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