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Surindar Dhesi @Surin75

Environmental health researcher, lecturer and practitioner. Interested in public health policy, inequalities, social justice, politics.

Joined January 2012
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Anna Coleman@DrAJColeman
21 Nov 2024
Wow! What would happen if they all said no? Need more recognition & support for ALL carers . @DrP_Manc @DonnaBramwell @ManchesterMPH @Lynsey_WG @dr_sakthi @FrancescaGains @Kreissl1 @BenWealthy1 @drsarahcroke @JonGlasby @Surin75 @mari_griff @JackieCarter @dukester24 @ProfDonnaHall
Health Equity North@_HENorth
21 Nov 2024
Today is #CarersRightsDay – our #WomanoftheNorth report released this year shows that northern women contribute £10bn of unpaid care to the UK economy each year. This is £2bn a year more than if they provided the national average of unpaid care. healthequitynorth.co.uk/vast…
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Anna Coleman@DrAJColeman
21 Oct 2024
See our new paper from the @PROTECT_NCS project - bmcpublichealth.biomedcentra… Draws on PH and EH teams’ perspectives of managing COVID-19 transmission, in an area that was disproportionately affected by the pandemic 👇 @CathLewis8 @AshtonInstitute @AMBS_OrgPsych @UoM_COEH @Surin75

An investigation of the impact of ‘Living with COVID’ on workplace COVID-19 transmission risk,...

BMC Public Health - Previous research has highlighted links between occupation and risk of COVID-19 transmission and suggests that occupational risk is influenced by covariates including...

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UniBirmingham News@news_ub
26 Apr 2024
The UK’s asylum system does not need flights to Rwanda, it needs safe and legal routes so that people do not have to risk their lives to seek protection, writes @MBEGriffiths @GeogBham @unibirmingham birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/f…
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Jim McManus OCDS,FFPH Views my own@jimmcmanusph
8 Aug 2023
175 years after the 1848 #PublicHealth Act was put in place to provide clean water, our bathing water quality seems to be getting worse nationally. ]adph.org.uk/resources/the-hi…

The history of decontaminating our water - ADPH

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Anna Coleman@DrAJColeman
26 Jun 2023
Our new article (voices of DsPH) suggests geographical differences in COVID-19 prevalence rates were strongly influenced by health inequalities: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentra… @BenWealthy1 @dukester24 @ProfBambra @DrRossMillar @stevensenior @lohmir @DamienMcElvenny @Lynsey_WG @Surin75

Areas of enduring COVID-19 prevalence: drivers of prevalence and mitigating strategies

BMC Public Health - UK local authorities that experienced sustained high levels of COVID-19 between 1st March 2020 and 28th February 2021 were described by the UK Scientific Advisory Group for...

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Cath Lewis@CathLewis8
22 Jun 2023
New journal publication from @PROTECT_NCS. Areas of enduring COVID-19 prevalence : drivers of prevalence and mitigating strategies. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentra…. @AMBS_OrgPsych @Martievt @CSA_HSE @DrAJColeman @nicolakgartland @Atiya_K @Amsg05 @AshtonInstitute
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PoliticsJOE
@PoliticsJOE_UK
26 May 2023
"One day you're going to end up with the wrong t-shirt on and you'll get arrested. It won't stop with climate protest." @ChrisGPackham explains why Brits – no matter their politics – should unite against the government's Public Order Bill.
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Nando Sigona@nandosigona
28 Mar 2023
#Migration, #displacement and #diversity: the IRiS anthology is out superdiversity.net/2023/03/2… via @IRiS_Birmingham

Migration, displacement and diversity: the IRiS anthology is out

We are delighted to announce the publication of the IRiS anthology to mark the tenth anniversary of the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS). A decade is an …

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Come and join us in the Environmental Health Sciences teaching team at @unibirmingham! Assistant/ Associate Prof role details are here edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…

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Fraser Sugden🌾🌽🌾@frasersugden
2 Feb 2023
Really pleased to share this exciting funded PhD opportunity on the Political Economy of Vulnerability to Air Pollution in the Kathmandu Valley, in collaboration between The University of Birmingham @LES_UniBham and @icimod in Kathmandu @LES_UniBham jobs.ac.uk/job/CXA482/phd-st…
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Salahcialism@Salahcialist
17 Dec 2022
Opinion piece on Channel Crossings for the @FT. With @ThomDavies, Joe Turner and @LucyMayblin. ft.com/content/a8089788-899d…

Talking tough won’t stop migrant crossings of the English Channel

Expensive security measures have been in place for years on the maritime border between France and the UK

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The News Agents@TheNewsAgents
15 Dec 2022
Britain and France have been successful in reducing the number people entering the UK using a vehicle. However, this has forced those individuals to travel by boat, a more deadly means of crossing, explains @lewis_goodall. Listen on @GlobalPlayer globalplayer.com/podcasts/ep…
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Kate Raworth@KateRaworth
11 Dec 2022
How to get your child a bursary to a top private school? Or how to create a national education system that gives *every single child* in the UK a good start in life? Which of these challenges we choose to crack determines the future of social equity in the UK.
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Fundamentally, those in the most deprived areas have fared worst by *every* measure. This is cos of more exposure, poor working & housing conditions, poorer health, poor communication & community involvement and much else. As @ProfBambra says, we need wholsesale change. 8/8
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Salahcialism@Salahcialist
1 Dec 2022
🚨Job alert: Research Fellow🚨 @LivUni @livunigeog @ESRC project "Channel Crossings: Irregular #Migration, Policies and Politics in the English Channel" 🔹30 months 🔹£36,386—£42,155 🔹10/01/23 deadline 🔹With me, @ThomDavies @LucyMayblin & Joe Turner jobs.ac.uk/job/CVM342/resear…

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Josephine Cumbo@JosephineCumbo
29 Nov 2022
NEW: Striking UK university staff have called for the reversal of cuts to their #USS pensions after new data showed the retirement scheme had moved to a £5 billion funding surplus. More follows:
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Tahmina Yasmin@drtahminayasmin
17 Nov 2022
Interested in #Refugees #inclusion #water #sanitation #Sustainability #alternative, have a go on this new article by @kaitkor @IrinaKuzn @Surin75 Rachel Cooper, @iseult5 @stefankrauseh2o tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee...

This study conducted an in-depth systematic review of literature to explore the context of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) sustainability and resilience in refugee communities. Our results ind...

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Paul Ogden@ogden140
5 Oct 2022
Replying to @Alison_Morton2 @theresecoffey @iHealthVisiting
‘There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in’ (Desmond Tutu)
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Kate Raworth@KateRaworth
25 Sep 2022
The UK government's ruthless and reckless policies that "go for growth” require us all to ask the essential questions that Donella Meadows - mother of systems thinking - set out decades ago. So join me in answering these questions... 1/n
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Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health Inequalities webinar Thursday 1st September, 2022, 13:00-14:00 Link to register: bit.ly/3wESj8D to discuss #fuelpoverty, its impact on worsening health inequalities, who is most affected and what policies should be introduced

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Toby Watt@tlswatt
15 Aug 2022
A woman at 60 living in the poorest areas, has the same average severity of illness as a 76-year-old woman in the wealthiest. A🧵on key insights in health inequalities (by socioeconomics, gender, ethnicity and region) from analysis we published today 1/6
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