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📢 Join us online TOMORROW on Tuesday 21 October at 14.00 BST to hear how inclusive innovation can close the global women’s health gap! A new Collection from The BMJ examines this question 🔎 Join us for the official launch event, where authors from across the globe will present key insights, followed by an interactive discussion about how to translate these ideas into progress 🌏 bit.ly/3WFaM1k

How can inclusive innovation close the global women’s health gap? The BMJ and Gates Foundation are examining this question in a new Collection on Women’s Health Innovation—a set of analyses led by experts from 14 countries around the world. Join us online on Tuesday 21 October at 14.00 BST for the official Launch Event to hear how researchers and innovators are shaping a more equitable future for women’s health. Register Now: http://bit.ly/3WFaM1k Read the Collection: https://lnkd.in/eAffJmyE #WomensHealthInnovation #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #InnovationForEquity #BMJCollections #WomensHealth #OA #OpenAccess #DiversityandInclusion #FemTech #ClinicalTrials #Technology BMJ Jocalyn Clark

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. It is patients who will be the victims of the war on DEI in medical education and training, not just the institutions that the administration seeks vengeance against, write Gavin Yamey and Michael D Green in this Opinion article https://lnkd.in/evqaATxV

This week, as global health leaders gather for the World Health Summit, The BMJ publishes a new Collection on women’s health innovation, developed in partnership with the Gates Foundation. The Collection brings together experts from 14 countries to explore how inclusive innovation—from AI-supported screening and digital health to decolonial feminist leadership—can transform women’s health worldwide. The BMJ’s International Editor Dr Jocalyn Clark is in Berlin this week sharing insights from the Collection and joining discussions on the future of global health and equitable health innovation. Join us for the online launch event on Tuesday 21 October to hear directly from the authors as they discuss how inclusive innovation can close the women’s health gap. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eAY449Bq Read and share the BMJ Collection: https://lnkd.in/eAffJmyE #WomensHealthInnovation #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #InnovationForEquity #BMJCollections #OA #DiversityandInclusion #FemTech #ClinicalTrials #Technology #WHS2025 #WorldHealthSummit

The recently published 10 year Health Plan for England isn’t so much a plan as an ambition, says the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS, and how it’s going to be delivered is unclear. In an article published in the BMJ, the commission says we’re still waiting for detail about how the many proposed changes will happen, pointing out a lack of a clear theory of change or detail about their delivery. The plan doesn’t give enough attention to the agency of people who use and work in the NHS, not helped by some paternalistic, top-down, and technocratic thinking. The context, too, is challenging. While the NHS Plan of 2000 benefitted from having the support of many NHS leaders at all levels and a large injection of cash, neither appears to be true 25 years later. A focus on top priorities, implementation, workforce, and properly involving patients, the public, communities, and staff is badly needed, say Bob Klaber, Mary Dixon-Woods, Charlotte Augst, Helen Salisbury, Kiran Patel, Chaand Nagpaul and Nigel Crisp https://lnkd.in/eUAcMHBU

NEW: As world leaders gather for the UN’s annual meetings, The BMJ publishes several articles to inform needed action and international cooperation on health. Several obstacles are in its path. Our head of research Elizabeth Loder reviews the recent retreat on science and its successes: https://lnkd.in/dmv2CB3g Rebecca Root reports on how USAID de-funding has given way to UK foreign aid cuts, threatening lives and health in low and middle income countries: https://lnkd.in/duwPavG8 Niki Ignatiou from Women Peace and Security argues for a more equitable global finance system to protect vulnerable groups, particularly girls and women: https://lnkd.in/daBQQfkg Peter Piot and Ibrahim Abubaker urge the UK to renews its financial support of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria: https://lnkd.in/dxDpVW4n #UNGA #UNGA80 #ODA #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #ForeignAid #GlobalFund #NCDS #HLM #USAID #FCDO #SRHR #WomensHealth

Women’s health is not a niche issue — it’s a global innovation and equity imperative. With support from the Gates Foundation, The BMJ is developing a bold new collection that explores how to close critical gaps in women’s health innovation worldwide. The first three commentaries are now live: 🔹 Reimagining women’s health is a global imperative – making the case for investment and long-term vision - https://lnkd.in/ex5rCEFd 🔹 Reshaping R&D through women’s leadership – why women must lead health innovation - https://lnkd.in/ekzcX4Ms 🔹 Beyond the reproductive years – challenging narrow definitions and calling for a life-course approach - https://lnkd.in/eYWZcx4y This series is just the beginning. We’re spotlighting the policies, partnerships, and power shifts needed to ensure that women—in all their diversities—can shape the future of health. Gates Foundation Jocalyn Clark Paul Simpson BMJ

JAMA, The BMJ, and METRICS are thrilled to announce the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, taking place September 3-5, 2025, at the Swissôtel Chicago. This Congress serves as a vital forum for exploring new research, fostering discussion, and debating best practices in peer review, scientific publication, and the dissemination of research. What to expect? 🔬 Presentations of original research covering all aspects of editorial and funding peer review, publishing practices, research integrity, reproducibility, and more. 🗣️ Opportunities for audience participation and discussion after each research presentation. 🤝 A chance to connect with editors, publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, policymakers, and innovators from a wide range of disciplines. Whether your work involves biomedicine, health and life sciences, applied/basic sciences, physical and chemical sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences, or any emerging field, this Congress offers valuable insights. Please note: In-person attendance has limited capacity. Registration closes August 27 at 5:00 PM CT, or earlier if in-person capacity is reached. Virtual participation will also be available. Learn more and register to attend at 👉 https://ja.ma/44YDC1B. #PeerReview #PeerReviewCongress #ScientificPublishing #ScholPub #ScholComm

✨New @BMJ Collection w/ @WHO “Lived experience as expertise” 🗣 It’s time to see lived experience—knowledge gained by being a patient, caregiver, or relative—as essential expertise, to ensure that healthcare is relevant, responsive, and fully inclusive, say experts in a new collection of BMJ articles. ✨Meaningful engagement about health policy, research, and services with people affected by them is an ethical imperative. Recognising lived experience as expertise, and including people with lived experience as leaders and decision makers, is also vital to the co-creation of effective, efficient, and equitable health policy and programmes—and ultimately to improving health outcomes. 🗣The collection showcases the value, competency, and capability of people with lived experiences in improving healthcare and health globally—and calls on health leaders at all levels to make participatory healthcare “business as usual.” ✨It considers opportunities and challenges in implementing meaningful engagement, with a health equity and intersectional lens. All lead authors are experts by experience. As the collection demonstrates, including people with lived experience fully is not just desirable and should not be tokenistic. Such expertise is critical, and anything less than full engagement unacceptable. 🗣“It is indisputable that people should have a say in the healthcare decisions that affect them,” say Sophia Walker, patient editor at The BMJ, and colleagues, in an editorial (https://lnkd.in/ewEXCsKc) to launch the collection. ✨The collection builds on a longstanding ambition of The BMJ to partner with patients and the public and its 2014 strategy. ✨Read and share the collection: https://lnkd.in/esrFn8cc ✨Find out about The BMJ’s longstanding commitment to patient and public partnership: https://lnkd.in/eYCYyjeA

#Racism and #sexism have become "alarmingly normalised" in the NHS—and must be tacked urgently for the benefit of patients, staff, and society (https://lnkd.in/esQ_EMWU). A NEW report from The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS says that the evidence and policy options for eliminating discrimination and inequity are clear; what is needed now is political and institutional commitment and action. As well as an ethical imperative for the government and NHS institutions to act now, racism and sexism have a major impact on the health of the public—and on NHS staff wellbeing. Racism and sexism contribute to increased risk of physical and mental health conditions, limit access to care, shape negative experiences of illness and encounters with services, and lead to worse overall health outcomes, including mortality. And racism and sexism have huge financial consequences for the UK economy. Every year health inequity leads to productivity losses of £31-£33bn, lost taxes, and increased welfare payments of £20-£32bn, as well as direct healthcare costs of at least £5.5bn. Read, share, and comment https://lnkd.in/esQ_EMWU