Smiley by name, smiley by nature | Public health & social medicine 🩺 | Board @MSF_Canada | Climate person | Cat person | Opinions mine
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
2 Jan 2025
UN experts horrified by blatant disregard for health rights in #Gaza following deadly raid on Kamal Adwan hospital and the arbitrary arrest & detention of its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
18 Dec 2024
glad to write an article for the @globeandmail about hospital crowding/wait times and how the public can show up for ERs instead of in them. one day, we won't need the rooms, and the medicine will come to us. until then, here are some things you can do:
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
18 Dec 2024
If you need the ER this holiday season, don’t fret – but do read this first, by @jamesmaskalyk theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… via @GlobeDebate
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20 Oct 2024
"At the policy level, during COVID we had vaccines being processed within six to seven months. But today, mpox has come & you don’t see the same urgency in trying to bring it under control. We have dengue fever & we don’t hear the same urgency." - @laktarr001
#healthequity
19 Oct 2024
About 4.5 billion people are without adequate healthcare access.
Dr Ahmed Ogwell, vice president of global health strategy at the WHO, talks about the current state of healthcare, global infection risks, and lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic aje.io/d73o3x
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Canadian doctors warned to be on the lookout for scurvy
by Mike Crawley @CBCQueensPark for @CBCNews
Find the case in this week's issue here ➡️cmaj.ca/content/196/33/E1144
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
Medical services are protected under international law. But there is growing concern attacks on health-care workers, patients and facilities are being normalised as part of war. @OurANU theconversation.com/attacks-…
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1 Oct 2024
Finding graves is not enough; Inuit survivors of #TB sanatoriums need healing journeys
by Naomi Tatty @seechangeinit
#healthequity theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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29 Sep 2024
"These days, @kaylee_byers looks at rat management more from a 'social justice' perspective. That’s because close contact with [rats] tends to be more pervasive among the unhoused & precariously housed in low-income areas like the Downtown Eastside." #mentalhealth #healthequity
29 Sep 2024
Vancouver's rat problem: Why are there so many, and what now? vancouversun.com/news/urban-…
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29 Sep 2024
"@MathieuJPP said that in North America & Europe, people have been using antibiotics & other antimicrobials at far higher rates than elsewhere in the world: 'In many ways we are contributing more to the problem, while not even dealing with the worst of the consequences.'"
28 Sep 2024
Superbugs could kill 39 million people by 2050. Here's what Canadian survivors, doctors say should change. Woman with superbug infection likens pain to campfire in leg.
cbc.ca/news/health/superbugs… via @cbcnews #AMR
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
26 Jul 2024
"Health research incorporating a human rights lens can drive the climate-health agenda forward."
Climate Adaptation and Human Rights: Potential Directions for Health Advocacy and Research, by @sandraqsmiley & Michele Heisler: hhrjournal.org/2024/07/clima… #ClimateAction #humanrights
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21 Jul 2024
As adaptation to #climatechange has important health & #humanrights implications, it must remain top-of-mind as climate policy is made. @MicheleHeisler & I outline 3 issues at this nexus on which health research & advocacy are needed:
hhrjournal.org/2024/07/clima… via @hhrjournal
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
18 Jul 2024
#HHR Climate adaptation & #HumanRights @sandraqsmiley @MicheleHeisler identify 3 areas of #healthrights research urgently needed in adaptation hhrjournal.org/2024/07/clima…
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
29 Jun 2024
If you haven't already, make sure to check out Episode 3 of our podcast - Not If, But When - with #Mpox back in the news.
Dr Rosamund Lewis, Technical Lead, global mpox response, @WHO, updates us on the current situation.
🔗 bit.ly/3VGJW8p
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
27 Jun 2024
@WHO info states that monkeypox virus (MPXV) is transmissible through face-to-face contact and respiratory secretions with or without physical contact. @WHO is supporting DRC @SanteMinistre for transmission studies to better understand mpox
who.int/multi-media/details/…
26 Jun 2024
Apparently the @WHO monitors rumours and misinformation on mpox. A key finding: “there have been discussions around transmission reiterating (…) the rumour that "monkeypox is airborne"”
Also @WHO: “Examples of pathogens that spread via airborne transmission: monkeypox virus”🤔
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Sandra Smiley (she/her) retweeted
25 Jun 2024
The killing, detention and enforced disappearance of health workers in #Gaza, in parallel with the systematic attacks and destruction of hospitals and other medical facilities, has had a devastating impact on the people of Gaza. #HumanRights #CeasefireNow
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22 Jun 2024
"We know how to keep people cool... it really is a resource problem"
Extreme heat is a global killer — & worse for our health than previously thought, new research shows
by @theanandram, @benshingler & @LaurenPelley #climatechange #healthequity
cbc.ca/news/health/heat-seco…
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