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Eric Brunner @EricJohnBrunner

Epidemiologist

Joined September 2015
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Eric Brunner @EricJohnBrunner
5 Jul 2021
Health in Japan through the lens of social epidemiology academic.oup.com/ije/advance… Thank you Ichiro Kawachi for an insightful and thoughtful book review. We owe much to you.

Health in Japan through the lens of social epidemiology

The last time Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, Japan was poised on the brink of prosperity and spectacular gains in life expectancy. Universal hea

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Excellent job opportunity for postdoc epidemiologist on Whitehall II study!
Simon Y. Chen @Yun_tao_Chen
3 Apr 2025
We are hiring. A two-year postdoc in Whitehall II research group at UCL focusing on air pollution and dementia based on 40 years longitudinal data. Please find more details in the link below. Please share this to people who may be interested. 😁 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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Was milk-calcium-low colon cancer a prior hypothesis ? I bet *no*.
george davey smith @mendel_random
8 Jan 2025
I agree the milk / CRC story is interesting, but one problem with the story-a-day situation is such get lost in a sea of noise
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Darshan 🦖 @darshan
5 Dec 2024
Oppenheimer lied to you. He wasn't the hero who saved the Manhattan Project. When his reactor was failing, he needed a Chinese woman to prevent nuclear disaster––that he later erased from history. Here's the true story of physics' greatest cover-up:
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Mika Kivimaki @MikaKivimaki
30 Nov 2024
Exciting news! Whitehall Study metadata is now searchable on the CLOSER Discovery tool, enhancing access to longitudinal population study datasets. closer.ac.uk/study/whitehall…

CLOSER | Whitehall II

The first Whitehall study made clear that inequalities in health were not limited to the health consequences of poverty. Important as that issue remains, the Whitehall question was why there should...

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CRESS_UMR1153 @CRESS_U1153
26 Nov 2024
The French Academy of Sciences awarded the Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy Prize to Séverine Sabia, Inserm research director of the @epiAgeing team from @CRESS_U1153, on November 26, 2024, at the Coupole of the Institut de France in Paris. cress-umr1153.fr/fr/severine…

Séverine Sabia reçoit le prix Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy de l’Académie des Sciences - CRESS - Centre...

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More than 10 years on from Dilnott, England still lacks equity in social care.
Cyril Lobont @cglobont
20 Nov 2024
We know the number of people living with dementia in England is growing. How ready is social care to guarantee quality, personalised care for all of them? New report, by @CamilleOung @NatashaCurry123 and I, looks at what action is needed where to better prepare the system.
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Great news that social epidemiology will continue to document the life course linkages between inequalities and health
Anne McMunn @Anne_McMunn
5 Nov 2024
Super excited to be Co-Directing this new @ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity with @Yvonne JKelly building on our decades of impactful lifecourse research @icls_info @EPHDept
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Daily Mail 'discovers' asbestos in schools now Labour in government. APPG on Occupational Health & Safety published their report on this major problem in 2012. It was discussed in Select Committee in 2013. Mesothlioma deaths that follow are due to austerity and callous politics.
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Gill Livingston @Gill_Livingston
17 Oct 2024
@Yun_tao_Chen fabulous poster on air pollution and dementia @FondazionePrada @UCLPsychiatry
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Gill Livingston @Gill_Livingston
17 Oct 2024
@atsommerlad talking in @FondazionePrada conference about social participation and risk of dementia, cause and effect. He talks about being bidirectional. @UCLPsychiatry
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The Food Foundation
 @Food_Foundation
3 Oct 2024
⚠️ People facing food insecurity are more than twice as likely to be living with a mental health condition. Our latest report finds families across the UK are stuck in a cycle of poverty, food insecurity and poor mental health - with children particularly affected. Read more: ➡️bit.ly/47ShrKu #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #foodpoverty @AnxietyUK
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Dr. Godfred Boahen @GodfredBoahen2
20 Sep 2024
Fascinating interview by @ClareHLlewellyn on @BBCr4today on kids’ eating habits & role of genes. Lots of tips for social workers on assessment of parenting capacity in this area. Helpful for @BASW_UK members!
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Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among US Adults. Somehow I think BRI will not catch on Formula is 364.2 − 365.5 × √(1 − [waist circumference in centimeters / 2π]2 / [0.5 × height in centimeters]2) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among US Adults

This cohort study evaluates temporal trends of body roundness index in a nationally representative sample of US adults and examines the associations of body roundness index and all-cause mortality.

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Simon Y. Chen @Yun_tao_Chen
6 Sep 2024
Was really enjoying the #SSM2024 conference in Glasgow. I presented our recent work about dementia incidence forecast. Thanks a lot to @EricJohnBrunner @EricFrench @JeromeSimons for the joint work.
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Can we not continually kick this can down the road. Fabians have a good solution already.
Chris Smyth @Smyth_Chris
13 Jul 2024
Labour plans cross-party royal commission to fix social care Streeting considering Royal Commission to establish long term consensus (and spread political pain) Louise Casey lined up to lead it Could this finally break the deadlock? thetimes.com/article/1bd906e…
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Natasha is absolutely correct about social care. The principles of fairness and social justice in the policy are what are needed sooner not later. The Fabian policy plan for a national care service has widespread support.
Natasha Curry @NatashaCurry123
15 Jul 2024
What would a cross-party Royal Commission achieve that a government with a large majority couldn't just get on with? Countless commissions, reviews, inquiries etc in last 25 years diagnosed the problems. A focused, clear, realistic plan for addressing them is needed urgently.
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Online option for this interesting session is invisible!
george davey smith @mendel_random
15 Jul 2024
Tony Pelosi has spent 32 yrs revealing the spurious "findings" of a most cited scientist of 20th-C. Over the last 5 years some papers have been retracted, but more should follow. On 22nd July he'll talk on this; registration tinyurl.com/49x793yf in person or online /cont
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Richly deserved.
Clare Llewellyn @ClareHLlewellyn
28 Jun 2024
Delighted to have been promoted to Professor @UCL_BSH . Sad my lovely Dad, who would’ve been so happy to see this, is no longer here to celebrate with, or my mentor Jane, to whom I owe my career. V thankful to my wonderful mentors/colleagues/who’ve supported me & to my referees
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Is CRP a biological effector? Where are the receptors? Brunner et Al PloS MED2008
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 @MaxDiffusionRL
27 Apr 2024
How many possible confounders are there with CRP? there are so many upstream indicators (like IL6, TNF, and everything listed on minute 56) - how does one possibly control for all of them?
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In today's FT... Only 10 per cent...Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities could not provide “any compelling examples of what had been delivered so far”.
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