Covid-19 brings into stark view how racial inequalities within the health sector have been damaging, detrimental, and deadly […]
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Will we take this opportunity to reboot for the sake of the planet?
As we loosen the lockdown and start taking steps back to “normal” life for the sake of the economy, do we have the courage to consciously choose a different path, […]
Serious weaknesses in the UK’s current plans for suppressing covid-19 risk a second major outbreak
The Faculty of Public Health believes we need concerted action now to reduce infections, to enable us to return to something approaching normal life as soon as possible. Several countries—notably […]
Jessica Drinkwater: Back to the future? Patient participation in general practice during covid-19
Jessica Drinkwater discusses her concerns that patient participation has regressed during the pandemic […]
Sebastian Walsh: We are asking the wrong questions about easing lockdown
“Is it safe to re-open schools?” “How can it be safe to re-open car show rooms when it’s not safe for me to see my family?” Questions like these have […]
Being heard, not, “seldom heard”: democratising research with diverse communities during the covid-19 pandemic
Debates in global health research have long called for a move away from semi-colonial approaches to research, which primarily serve the interests of populations in high income countries to more […]
Inequality in our ethnic minorities: we must act before the next pandemic
Dipesh P Gopal and Sonia Adesara call for action now […]
Balancing lives and livelihoods: relaxation of lockdown needs to be finely balanced
As many countries start to ease lockdown measures, these authors advise that any relaxation of measures should be gradual, cautious, and constantly reviewed […]
Learning about covid-19 outbreaks from non-viral tweets
Trish Greenhalgh and Graham Mackenzie Covid-19 has put the science of rapid review centre stage. It is only just over six months ago that the world began to grapple with […]
Sheffield community contact tracers: training community volunteers to undertake contact tracing for covid-19
Stopping contact tracing in the UK in mid March was one of many mistakes made in the management of the covid-19 pandemic. WHO guidelines for the covid-19 outbreak recommend that […]