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Marita Hennessy
@maritahennessy.bsky.social
Researcher | PhD | Ireland

#PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
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Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement is out today @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of special issue on the #CDoH. We hope to stimulate discussion & debate (& hopefully meaningful action) in this area

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@jameslarkin13.bsky.social
Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action
Abstract. Patient and public involvement is increasingly advocated in health policy, research and practice. Patients and people with lived experience, care
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Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders (Feb 2025)

www.thejournal.ie/accenture-en...

#CorporatePlaybook #COI #CDoH
Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders
The global company, which has its headquarters in Dublin, is reacting to executive orders signed by Trump
www.thejournal.ie
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Capturing the wider benefits from football participation: a social return on investment (SROI) evaluation of a community based football intervention

@dalysportspych.bsky.social, Tom Egan, Paula Carroll, Gillian Curran, Michael Harrison, Aisling McGrath, et al

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Capturing the wider benefits from football participation: a social return on investment (SROI) evaluation of a community based football intervention - BMC Public Health
Background Gendered approaches to engage men are recommended for health promotion, with community settings, that involve physical activity and specifically football being frequently employed. One such...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Newspaper framing of food poverty & insecurity on the island of Ireland

@clairekerins.bsky.social, Páraic Kerrigan, Sinéad Furey, Aodheen McCartan, Colette Kelly, Tania Jahir, @elenavaughan.bsky.social @galwayhprc.bsky.social

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@healthpromint.bsky.social
Newspaper framing of food poverty and insecurity on the island of Ireland
Abstract. Given that news media play key roles in shaping public and policy responses to food poverty and insecurity, this study analysed how newspapers fr
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November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
So what? Elevating the impact of implementation science

Ross Brownson, Juliet Iwelunmor, Thomas Odeny, Enola Proctor & Elvin Geng

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@implementsci.bsky.social #ImpSci #ImpSciComm
So what? Elevating the impact of implementation science - Implementation Science Communications
Background Given the substantial public funding of health-related research, tangible benefits of this support must be demonstrated. Implementation science provides actionable methods to enhance popula...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days:

For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.

If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Scoping the patient-safety implications of AI-based communication with migrants in general practice

@annecronin5.bsky.social, Anthony Kelly, Michelle Wrona, Patrick O'Donnell, Ahmed Hassan, Tonya Myles, Tadhg Fallon and Anne MacFarlane

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Scoping the patient-safety implications of AI-based communication with migrants in general practice
Background Access to interpreters for refugee and migrant patients that do not share the same language and culture as their GPs is considered a critical healthcare adaptation. However, interpreters ar...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
📖 Doing Interpretive Research: Learning and Teaching Imagination in Social Research

✍️ Koen Bartels, Hendrik Wagenaar

🔓 academic.oup.com/book/60060
Doing Interpretive Research: Learning and Teaching Imagination in Social Research
Abstract. This book guides social researchers and instructors in the practice of interpretive research. Interpretivism has an intuitive appeal to many soci
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November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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One of the biggest challenges in public health & environment-related fields is the miscommunication of population-scale results to the individual-level

This is often caused by the desire to formulate “action” relevant to people’s lives but ends up blaming individuals for things not in their control
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Drug industry payments to groups of influential MPs—“the next great parliamentary scandal?”

Matthew Limb @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Access @patientlibrary.bsky.social's APPG Influence Tracker here: www.patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/libr...
Drug industry payments to groups of influential MPs—“the next great parliamentary scandal?”
MPs and peers must act urgently to avert potential scandal from drug industry payments and connections to parliamentary interest groups, researchers have said. A new study of pharmaceutical firms’ de...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A stamp of approval is not a seal of ethics: an editorial on justice and respect in trial design

Cory Goldstein, @streweek.bsky.social & Hossein Fatemian

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A stamp of approval is not a seal of ethics: an editorial on justice and respect in trial design - Trials
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November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In search of a heart: charity, children’s hospitals and The Wizard of Oz

Sabina Dosani

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In search of a heart: charity, children’s hospitals and The Wizard of Oz
As both clinician and mother, I have spent long hours in children’s hospitals, where abject terror and immeasurable relief often coexist. Few clinical environments hold such extremes: the discipline o...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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NEW🔔University student mental health before and after implementation of a mental health strategy: a repeated cross-sectional study from Australia

✍️Shane A Kavanagh, Patrick J Owen, Erin Lolicato, Sue Riches, Laura Burge, Melissa Yong, Anthony D LaMontagne

OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf182
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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NEW 🔔 Adverse commercial determinants of health in low- and middle-income countries: a public health challenge

✍️ M Mofizul Islam, Cassandra De Lacy-Vawdon, Deborah Gleeson

OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf193
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The collection & integration of data on migrants in health information systems (Ireland)

Deepanjali Vishwakarma, Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Anne MacFarlane, Jim Walsh, Alphonse Basogomba, Patrick O’Donnell, Ruth Armstrong & Ailish Hannigan

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The collection and integration of data on migrants in health information systems: evidence from Ireland - International Journal for Equity in Health
Addressing disparities and promoting health for migrants requires policies and practices that are grounded in comprehensive and accurate health data. Health Information Systems (HIS) play a crucial ro...
equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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If you serve on a Research Ethics Committee please read our editorial:

'Recovery Philosophy, Mental Health Nursing Research and the Challenge of Paternalism in Research Ethics Committees'

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November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Drinkaware - an exemplar case study on #COI & #CDoH (& #WebOfInfluence across industries & sectors) in #Ireland (& beyond!) 😩

👇 This is marketing, not research

www.activelink.ie/community-ex...

@paulaleonard.bsky.social @alcoholireland.ie
Drinkaware: Winter 2025 Research Briefing
An examination of patterns of alcohol consumption among adults in Ireland in 2025. Join us for our Winter 2025 Research Briefing, featuring John O’Mahony, Director, Ipsos B&A, delivering the keynote p...
www.activelink.ie
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Weight discrimination and up-to-date breast and cervical cancer screening in US women

Mary Gerend, Lucille Wilkinson, Chandler Pendleton, Angelina Sutin, Janet Shepherd

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#EndWeightStigma
Weight discrimination and up-to-date breast and cervical cancer screening in US women
Little research has investigated whether people's experiences with weight-related discrimination serve as a barrier to cancer screening. This study ex…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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👋 We’ve been a little quiet… because we’ve been busy planning! We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for #HSRUK26 are OPEN 🎉If you’re working on health services research that deserves a national platform, now’s your moment!

🔗 Info & submission guidance here: hsruk.org/hsruk/events...
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said
Frida Kahlo painting auctions for $54.6m
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The Institute of Public Health - @instpublichealth.bsky.social - has launched a new resource on advocating for public health ⤵️

Championing Change: A Guide to Public Health Advocacy

www.publichealth.ie/learning-res...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social
IPH launches ‘Championing Change: A Guide to Public Health Advocacy’ | Institute of Public Health
www.publichealth.ie
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"I'm not influenced."

"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."

"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”

Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference

@aimosinc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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"I'm not influenced."

"My colleagues are influenced, but I'm not."

"I have ties with all the, companies, so I'm not influenced by any.”

Lisa Bero describing the ways people rationalise their conflicts of interest, opening the #AIMOS2025 conference

@aimosinc.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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A key strategy of commercial actors is to influence and distort the evidence base relating to the harms of their products

This is done through funding misleading industry-friendly science & through the active promotion of misinformation

@markpetticrew.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Our current systems for research assessment are narrow and flawed - @ginnybarbour.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Really good to see this NB report & resource launched ✊

Congratulations-& thank you-to all involved @patientlibrary.bsky.social

In Ireland we don't even have an official list of all/cross-party parlaimentary groups, never mind any disclosures 😩

#COI #CDoH #WebOfInfluence

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Does transparency matter between drug companies and politicians? Find out via our Into the Web report: pexlib.net?249750 And use our APPG Influence tracker to see who is connected with whom among health-related All Party Parliamentary Groups: www.appgtracker.net
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM