ERCIM News No. 136 Special Theme "Large Language Models (LLMs)"

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Of note:
Chatbots & Socrates: Dialogues in Learning. pp.18-20.
Towards AI-Assisted Data Storytelling. pp.28-29.

"Maslow's hierarchy of needs hides housing horror" c/o Gary Backler in FTWeekend

"John Burn-Murdoch sets out graphically the intergenerational horror story of housing in Britain since 1980 (Opinion, January 13). ...

Abraham Maslow, the American psychologist, placed the need for "shelter" at the very bottom of his famous hierarchy of needs. 
We used to know this. I have a photo of my newly married parents' first rentbook for the council house into which they moved in 1953. It is clear on the cover that after the "accountant to the council", the next most responsible officer is the "medical officer of health". ...

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mental health emotional needs	physical health shelter/physical security
social needs - belonging social care society	Rentbook for council house in 1953 © Gary Backler

Backler, Gary, Maslow's hierarchy of needs hides housing horror, Letters. FT Weekend, 20-21 January 2024, p.8.
Ack. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/3b8719f6-d8e9-4997-b9b5-7dd7ba96fc08

Previously: Maslow.

Identity: Self, person, client, patient ... player

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SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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Identity morphism

My source: Twitter - X

https://x.com/Ravens/status/1751712286769660409?s=20

Plus:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lamar-jackson-makes-unreal-catch-of-his-own-pass-in-chiefs-ravens-afc-title-game-leaving-tony-romo-amazed/
 

Image:

https://krossovochkin.com/posts/2020_04_26_category_theory/

Learning Health Systems: Volume 8, Issue 1 - January 2024

Learning Health Systems is an Open Access journal.

Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2024)

All articles shown below are freely available and downloadable.

COMMENTARY

Socio‐technical infrastructure for a learning health system

 

Charles P. Friedman, Edwin A. Lomotan, Joshua E. Richardson, Jennifer L. Ridgeway

LEARNING FROM DATA

Privacy‐preserving record linkage across disparate institutions and datasets to enable a learning health system: The national COVID cohort collaborative (N3C) experience

 

Umberto Tachinardi, Shaun J. Grannis, Sam G. Michael, Leonie Misquitta, Jayme Dahlin, Usman Sheikh, Abel Kho, Jasmin Phua, Sara S. Rogovin, Benjamin Amor, Maya Choudhury, Philip Sparks, Amin Mannaa, Saad Ljazouli, Joel Saltz, Fred Prior, Ahmen Baghal, Kenneth Gersing, Peter J. Embi

RESEARCH REPORTS

Analysis of FRAME data (A‐FRAME): An analytic approach to assess the impact of adaptations on health services interventions and evaluations

 

Heather Z. Mui, Cati G. Brown-Johnson, Erika A. Saliba-Gustafsson, Anna Sophia Lessios, Mae Verano, Rachel Siden, Laura M. Holdsworth

 

Automated generation of comparator patients in the electronic medical record

 

Joseph Rigdon, Brian Ostasiewski, Kamah Woelfel, Kimberly D. Wiseman, Tim Hetherington, Stephen Downs, Marc Kowalkowski

 

Stakeholder perspectives on data sharing from pragmatic clinical trials: Unanticipated challenges for meeting emerging requirements

 

Stephanie R. Morain, Juli Bollinger, Kevin Weinfurt, Jeremy Sugarman

 

Learning healthcare systems in cardiology: A qualitative interview study on ethical dilemmas of a learning healthcare system

 

Sara Laurijssen, Rieke van der Graaf, Ewoud Schuit, Melina den Haan, Wouter van Dijk, Rolf Groenwold, Saskia le Sessie, Diederick Grobbee, Martine de Vries

 

Frameworks, guidelines, and tools to develop a learning health system for Indigenous health: An environmental scan for Canada

 

Emma Rice, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Jinfan Qiang, Lynn Henderson, Tammy MacLean, Justin Rhoden, Abigail Simms, Sterling Stutz

 

Predictive modeling for infectious diarrheal disease in pediatric populations: A systematic review

 

Billy Ogwel, Vincent Mzazi, Bryan O. Nyawanda, Gabriel Otieno, Richard Omore

TECHNICAL REPORT

Learning health system benefits: Development and initial validation of a framework

 

Lisa C. Welch, Sarah K. Brewer, Titus Schleyer, Denise Daudelin, Rechelle Paranal, Joe D. Hunt, Ann M. Dozier, Anna Perry, Alyssa B. Cabrera, Cheryl L. Gatto

BRIEF REPORTS

Exploring nationwide policy interventions to control COVID‐19 from the perspective of the rapid learning health system approach

 

Ayat Ahmadi, Leila Doshmangir, Reza Majdzadeh

 

Developing LHS scholars’ competency around reducing burnout and moral injury

 

Sirin Yilmaz, Michele LeClaire, Abbie Begnaud, Warren McKinney, Kasey R. Boehmer, Cory Schaffhausen, Mark Linzer

 

Assessment of learning health system science competency in the equity and justice domain

 

Patricia D. Franklin, Denise Drane

EXPERIENCE REPORTS

Training the next generation of delivery science researchers: 10‐year experience of a post‐doctoral research fellowship program within an integrated care system

 

Richard W Grant, Julie A Schmittdiel, Vincent X Liu, Karen R Estacio, Yi-Fen Irene Chen, Tracy A Lieu

 

Implementing the learning health system paradigm within academic health centers

 

Douglas Easterling, Anna Perry, David Miller

 

Learning from an equitable, data‐informed response to COVID‐19: Translating knowledge into future action and preparation

 

Morgen Stanzler, Johanna Figueroa, Andrew F. Beck, Marianne E. McPherson, Steve Miff, Heidi Penix, Jessica Little, Bhargavi Sampath, Pierre Barker, David M. Hartley

 

Conceptualizing and redefining successful patient engagement in patient advisory councils in learning health networks

 

Madeleine Huwe, Becky Woolf, Jennie David, Michael Seid, Shehzad Saeed, Peter Margolis, ImproveCareNow Pediatric IBD Learning Health System 

COMMENTARIES

Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences

 

Rudolf Wittner, Petr Holub, Cecilia Mascia, Francesca Frexia, Heimo Müller, Markus Plass, Clare Allocca, Fay Betsou, Tony Burdett, Ibon Cancio, Adriane Chapman, Martin Chapman, Mélanie Courtot, Vasa Curcin, Johann Eder, Mark Elliot, Katrina Exter, Carole Goble, Martin Golebiewski, Bron Kisler, Andreas Kremer, Simone Leo, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Anna Marsano, Marco Mattavelli, Josh Moore, Hiroki Nakae, Isabelle Perseil, Ayat Salman, James Sluka, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Caterina Strambio-De-Castillia, Michael Sussman, Jason R. Swedlow, Kurt Zatloukal, Jörg Geiger

 

Can we identify the prevalence of perinatal mental health using routinely collected health data?: A review of publicly available perinatal mental health data sources in England

 

Sarah Masefield, Kathryn Willan, Zoe Darwin, Sarah Blower, Chandani Nekitsing, Josie Dickerson

 

My source: Email request by -

Kathleen Young
Editorial Assistant, Learning Health Systems journal
Victor Vaughan
1111 East Catherine Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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My source:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK 

James's 'terrible algebra'

“You are right in your consciousness that we are all echoes and reverberations of the same, and you are noble when your interest and pity as to everything that surrounds you appears to have a sustaining and harmonizing power. Only don’t, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses — remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another’s, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own. Don’t melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can." 

Henry James.

Source - and in full: 

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1242340-you-are-right-in-your-consciousness-that-we-are-all

My source: Berwick, I. Over the limit, Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 20-21 January, 2024, p.10. (Review of "How We Break").

Why not a 'care algebra' - across the five domains?

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reasoning thought James's ... 'terrible algebra'	THEORY <gap> PRACTICE mathematics & logic abstraction algebra
PRACTICE <gap> THEORY Applied Mathematics in the Social Sciences	Equity, Equality, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Efficacy Difference, Comparison Inclusion, Exclusion

My emphasis.

Psycho-Philosophical Creativity - Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021)

"Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021) identified a type of highly focused mental state conducive to productivity and creativity. He called it the 'flow'. He described flow as "being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost." Csikszentmihalyi advanced a model odf creativity that stresses the importance of a 'specific domain' to make meaningful contributions within a culture - a time and place in history where many variables come together to form a situation where creativity can bloom. . . .

Csikszentmihalyi work focuses on creativity as a cultural phenomenon. It is useful, he says, to think about culture as systems of interrelated domains. He puts forward a model of creativity consisting of a domain, a field, and a person. The domain is the wider area of cultural application, whether that be sculpture, mathematics, reason or science. Inside the domain is the specific field; and inside the field is the person. Csikszentmihalyi outlines the creative person as having "a sense that one's skills are adequate to cope with the challenges at hand, in a goal directed, rule-bound action system" (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990)." p.10.

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person domain field creativity	person domain field creativity
domain field culture creativity	domain field culture creativity

Culture also extends to the psychological (mental life) and physical (sciences); person(s) are supported, it is hoped, by their society, and political structures and services.

'Domain(s) can be organised, designated and structured in other ways. This would include, the center of Hodges' model not necessarily being fixed.

There is a paper to be written on Hodges' model related to inter- multi- transdisciplinarity.

Jones, L., Plaiting Gravy, Philosophy Now. Creativity. December 2022 / January 2023: Issue 153. pp.9-11.

"Registered Nurse RN": What is in a Title?

or, Here is Saturday's Multidisciplinary Team selection;
Registered Nurses on the subs bench;
On the Roll, or Roll with the Times?

While never a union/professional body (formal) representative, I have as a nursing assistant then student nurse been aware of the 'political' in health. Once again perhaps another way in which I was primed to the reality of staff as a key (the) resource and hence the centrality of the workforce. Abbreviations are ever present and I remember RAWP - Resource Allocation Working Party; which also drew attention to geography and scale. Unfortunately, the vitality of the workforce has suffered with workforce planning inconsistently exercised.

Once again, I also recall a presentation by Derek Hoy on the need for information systems (data - information - knowledge . . .) through nurse informatics to help make nursing visible. It seems this is still an issue, for example:

Lyu, XC., Huang, SS., Ye, XM. et al. What influences newly graduated registered nurses’ intention to leave the nursing profession? An integrative review. BMC Nurs 23, 57 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01685-z

Leamy, M., Sims, S., Levenson, R. et al. Intentional rounding: a realist evaluation using case studies in acute and care of older people hospital wards. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1341 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10358-1

Stadnicka, S.K., Zarzycka, D. Perception of the professional self-image by nurses and midwives. Psychometric adaptation of the Belimage questionnaire. BMC Nurs 22, 412 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01564-7

 
Last month on a trip to Hay-on-Wye I picked up some back-issues of London Review of Books. Needless to say, in light of space and the clearing exercise I was very selective. The pearl of an essay cited below prompted me to wonder on the silence, quietness, lack of noise - invisibility even - of certain wards where registered nurses are present: or not? How and what data is captured and interpreted for reporting purposes and how meaning is gleaned and by whom? Making a difference in terms of patient safety and the quality of care:

LRB 45:18

"Call​ it the Jaap Stam conundrum. The story is told in Rory Smith’s entertaining book about the use of data in football, Expected Goals. Stam was a very talented but ageing central defender who had for three years been crucial to the success of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United. Stam got into Ferguson’s bad books, and Ferguson decided to get rid of him, backed by data showing that Stam was now making fewer tackles. Stam was sold to Lazio for £16.5 million. Simon Kuper, co-author of Soccernomics (2009), about the use of numbers in football, wrote that this might have been the first deal in football based partly on data. It was, as Ferguson later admitted, a ‘bad decision’. Stam went on to have several productive years at the top of Italian football. The mistake was based on the fact that the data were Delphic. The question Man U wanted to have answered was ‘Should we keep Stam?’ Instead, the oracle answered the question ‘How many tackles is Stam making?’ But, as Smith writes,

'the best defenders do not need to make many tackles. The tackle itself is an act of last resort; great defenders intervene long before anything so tawdry is required. That Stam was making fewer tackles was not a sign that he was getting worse; if anything, it may have been a sign that his anticipation and his positioning and his reading of the game were all improving.'

Football, like Mao’s China, has discovered that getting hold of the data is one thing, interpretation of the data is another. The terms ‘data’ and ‘analytics’ are used interchangeably in sport, Smith points out, but in fact the gathering of data, fuelled by surging interest from sports teams and professional gamblers, has tended significantly to outpace the intelligent analytic use of that data."

("Delphic. It answers the question you ask, but it doesn’t tell you what to do.")

John Lanchester. Get a rabbit. Vol. 45 No. 18 · 21 September 2023.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/john-lanchester/get-a-rabbit 

See also:

Gorsky M, Millward G. Resource Allocation for Equity in the British National Health Service, 1948-89: An Advocacy Coalition Analysis of the RAWP. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2018 Feb 1;43(1):69-108. doi: 10.1215/03616878-4249814. PMID: 28972019; PMCID: PMC6312698.

RAWP

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/assets/icbh-witness/rawp.pdf

When you 'give no quarter'^

When the only thing
on the table is your history,
there is no space, even as corners multiply.
No longer is there space for a future,
no longer space for hope,
no space for a peace to be thought of -
let-alone shared.

When you give - absolutely! - no quarter
and act to prove the same,
Yes, you stand.
But how do you stand?
You stand to lose insight,
and so much more - 
you stand to lose
humanity

 

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CON-SCIENCE	SCIENCE geo-
Time & Land	politics PEACE?

^Easy for me - many of us - to say?

Listen also:

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week War crimes justice

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vktw

Where do you/we find peace? Discuss.

c/o Eliot Higgins: 'Moment of truth' or 'Movement to Critical Thinking'?

   moment

a : tendency or measure of tendency to produce motion especially about a point or axis

b : the product of quantity (such as a force) and the distance to a particular axis or point

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moment

Here on W2tQ in posts applying Hodges' model I have tended to equate the subjective and the objective with the humanistic and mechanistic domains respectively. Of course, these mappings - conceptual placements are idealised. In reality there is a great deal of overlap. 

"Social media platforms such as X, once celebrated as democratising forces, are under even more scrutiny. The challenge isn't just rogue posts or unchecked algorithms. It reflects a deeper malaise, rooted in societal distrust, exacerbated by business models and perpetuated by reactive policies. The ramifications of disinformation spill on the streets with tangible, often devastating real-world consequences. 

These processes were already underway in 2014, when I founded the open-source investigative group Bellingcat." p.1. 

"The delicate balance between combating misinformation and ensuring digital freedoms remains elusive. ...

Addressing the root causes of disinformation requires a grassroots approach. Education stands at the forefront of this strategy. The idea is simple yet transformative: integrate open-source investigative and critical thinking into the curriculum. Equip the youth with the skills to navigate the labyrinthine digital realm, to question, analyse and verify before accepting or sharing information. ...

The potential of such a grassroots movement doesn't stop at school gates. Envision a world where universities become hubs of open source investigation, with national and international networks of students sharing methodologies, tools and insights. As these students move into their professional lives, they carry forward not just skills but a mindset - one that values critical thinking over blind acceptance." p.2.

Higgins, E. Moment of truth, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 16-17 December 2023, pp.1-2.
 

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mental well-being critical thinking education - learning subjective PSYCHO-	physical well-being fact (checking) digital media literacy objective
social well-being society social impacts of info disorder	-POLITICAL political well-being policy - regulation political impacts of info disorder

https://thestudentview.org/

https://citizenevidence.org/

Access to education to combat information disorder, through digital media literacy is essential. There are now many claimed forms of literacy, and informatics. Engaging students must not just rest with  universities and graduate level education; especially as the 'professions' are set to change and new ones arise.

Previous posts 'information disorder' , 'ignorance'.

Book review iv. General Psychotherapy: Principles and Common Theoretical Aspects - Rediscovering Humanity

   General Psychotherapy

My late teens - early twenties coincided with the emergence of chaos, fractals and yes - emergent phenomena. Consequently, I had to refer back to Chapter 3, as Hartmann-Kottek writes:

"If we imagine a fractal that encompasses all categories similarly to a quantum in this regard, all cells, organs, particularly the human brain, the entire person, groups of people, races, nature and the earth would also be in field and structure at the same time. This does not appear to be an abnormal notion. Several experiences with field phenomena of the relationship level would consequently gain their natural allocation.

Indeed, we are familiar with notions that cross categories with regard to states of matter: Water as ice, snowflakes, liquid, vapour, mist and clouds are normal aspects of daily life."p.215.

This resonates at present with reading on categories, seeking theory and to what extent can mathematics and logic be applied to Hodges' model and more importantly, to the humanities? There is some toing-and-froing in the book, but for me having read the book - it works. If a student asked me what is a good subject to study at high school. It would be Social and Economic History, especially if you are thinking of pursuing mental health nursing, psychiatry, or psychology. General nursing too, I would add, acknowledging the need for holistic and integrated theory, practice and management. 

Chapter 7: is a regular rollercoaster in terms of history and cultures:

The Spirit of the Times and Cultural Epochs as Reference Systems Along with Their Transformation of the Ideal Level of Human Development – A Historical Journey Into the Past to Learn for the Future

In healthcare we need to constantly ask (it's called mandatory training) about the protected characteristics, the various literacies, including emotional, spiritual, cultural; and all the determinants of health. And we need to be cognizant of all of them: individual, environmental, commercial, educational, social, and educational (hence why 'categories' are salient).

The discussion of non-European cultures are particularly rewarding - Africa, Australia, Polynesia, Ancient far East, Native Americas, Egypt, Yoruba and others. Page 437 brings Martial arts, where synergy between mind, body and spirit is central. Reflecting culture and the association between health, well-being, the human condition and pastoral care chapter 7 covers the main religions and relationships between several. The influence of aesthetics in certain cultures is also introduced. The book is a springboard for further reading. Section 7.1.2 on an Integrative, Holistic Stance as a Countermovement provides the names and dates of  more than fifteen personalities: Alexius Meinong (1853-1920) ... Wilhelm Witte (1915-1985). Through the history described, it is interesting to reflect on the significance of the holding of knowledge and power imbued through its use. The end of chapter is an effort to take stock of social development - a non-trivial task given the dynamic world we try to exist within. 

 I found I was rolling together chapters 6,7 and 8 even as they hold-their-own in content and placement. As a community mental health nurse I still reflect upon:

• There is no overarching theory of health communication.
• Gatekeeping is alive and well.
• The current often vociferous 'debate' between psychiatrists, psychologists, patients/clients, carers and nurses too.

Chapter 8 returns to the integration of psychotherapy with the politics of research, or how the exercise of power within psychotherapy research has resulted in crises. I wished I'd paid more attention, but I do recall at some events, conferences instances of animosity between different therapeutic camps. Hartmann-Kottek does not labour the final chapter. There are positive messages here too. A page and a half overview informs us that globally there is research attending to the knowledge and not the interests of particular therapeutic organisations and associations. Statistics, evidence, fake science are discussed, the history in psychotherapy and how this frames the future. When I started reading the book behavioural science was in the news for the wrong reasons. 

Chapter 8 reminds me of the proverb 'Reap what you sow'. Now across health and social care how many gates and gate-keepers are there? Outside of 'emergency' triage: how many are legitimate, needed? How as the original role - processes changed? In England there is ongoing debate about IAPT - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. Fascinating and troubling the apparent increase in diagnosis of autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Still many questions to be asked, especially on access to therapy within  the auspices of universal health coverage.

Here on the blog and in my application of Hodges' model, it may seem that the POLITICAL domain is the constant elephant. The thing to be climbed over, circumvented, accepted for all its ills (no pun intended). Politics, the political is a tool. It is, in Hodges' model, an essential domain in terms of care delivery and knowledge. The idea of that "Competitive constellations happen." (p.465) is of course a reality. In championing and studying Hodges' model this is well recognised. Chapter 8 is a mélange of socio-political concepts which briefly reveal what must be better resolved not just in psychotherapy, but health and social care: all the determinants.

Hodges' model = a natural home for contextual research?

 "At long last, 'contextual research' (Wampold et al.) has put an end to the belief solely in standardised and manualised treatment programmes." p.345.

While the above gives me great encouragement - a note in book: "Generalising partial perspectives only ever lead to impasse." (p.458) reminds me to take nothing for granted.

Chapter 8 places an emphasis on balance.

Hartmann-Kottek uses the term '(r)evolutionary' in chapter 8. This is fitting as the chapter begins with history - with or without the Dodo. Perhaps quantum descriptions can be found by (necessarily) and paradoxically increasing the theory-practice gap. Taking 'theory' even further away from the noise, complexity of practice. We often consider theory, as an opportunity to be idealist. How often (in the past?) have nurses found the nursing theory - model they are trying to apply ungainly as the day-to-night pressures of care delivery make themselves known? Perhaps ironically by venturing further into theory new vistas will appear, with timely and much needed perspectives given the demands of health in the 21st Century.

 'I' - 'Individual' 'SELF' 'Patient' 'Client'

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dyad / couple  family  GROUP community population

PSYCHO - PSYCHO - ... experience-related,  mind and	- TECHNICS^ - MECHANICS^ confrontational connections in the physiological patterns ... (p.480).
foundational collective context i dyad, triad, couples, families, small and large groups	foundational collective context ii gates, gate-keepers, gate-keeping access, accessibility

Many thanks to Prof. Hartmann-Kottek and Springer for the review copy. I will add the related posts below soon.

An enjoyable, informative read and a great contribution to my CPD. There are many more points to highlight and I may do so in the future.

Hartmann-Kottek, L. (2022). General Psychotherapy, Principles and Common Theoretical Aspects - Rediscovering Humanity. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87466-7.

^Used in the text.

Architectural Epidemiology: Rethinking architecture for community and planetary health

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the first Policy Dialogues session of 2024, from the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center:

Architectural Epidemiology: Rethinking architecture for community and planetary health

Thursday 25th January at 6pm CET

Location: Online :: Language: English

Buildings account for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and up to 1/5 of chronic disease. In an era of climate emergency, rising global levels of chronic disease and increasing social inequalities, there is an urgent need to reassess and transform buildings and their social and environmental impacts. The new, transdisciplinary field of Architectural Epidemiology offers a roadmap for overcoming these challenges: it aims to transform the building sector from being a major contributor to climate change and chronic disease to becoming one of the primary forces behind their decline.

The JHU-UPF Public Policy Center is delighted to invite Dr. Adele Houghton (Harvard University) to present her cutting-edge work on Architectural Epidemiology in this Policy Dialogue. She will be joined by Dr. Carme Borrell (Barcelona Public Health Agency), who will respond to and discuss the presentation, offering a European perspective on the possibilities and challenges that this field presents for community and planetary health. The session will be moderated by Dr. Mary Sheehan (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).

We hope you can join us to learn about and discuss this exciting new field of research and action!

Register here, and please feel free to share within your networks.

Best regards,
Aeve Ribbons
Coordinator of Policy Dialogues

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'Slugfields Luxury Prison' c/o Isabel Rock - artist

"In November 2022, I spent a month on remand at HMP Bronzefield for my part in the Just Stop Oil protests on the M25. I was happy to go to prison for something I know is morally right. Drawing in prison became my saviour against the monotony. I rarely draw from life anymore, but we were given a little notebook in our 'welcome' bags of grey tracksuits, pastel pants and toothbrush." p.19.

"This drawing is Slugfields Luxury Prison, (152×120cm) the institutional blue doors, plastic chairs, toilet in the corner and the panoptican architecture mirror that of Bronzefields. It's not quite finished yet, but it's been a cathartic experience to draw some of my thoughts on prison life and incarceration by the state." Instagram (and image source).

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	Slugfields Luxury Prison, (152×120cm) by Isabel Rock

Rock, I., 'Drawn Behind Bars' PRINTMAKING TODAY, Autumn 2023, Cello Press Ltd. Volume 32, Issue 127, p.19-21.

With thanks to Isabel Rock.

Book: Rethinking Global Health - open access

Rethinking Global Health

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psy-disciplines:  intra- interpersonal domains subjectification - objectification  learning emotional labour burnout precarious researchers -  acknowledgement of contributions equity personal truth	ebola, cholera, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, PTSD ... 'emergency', natural diasters climate crises: geography local - global - glocal remote - rural - urban (physical) systems tarmac bias data, information access (SDGs?) digital  divide, epistemic justice
collective 'truth' violence against the 'others' - women, children ... symbolic, structural and  collaboration, cooperation,  co-production, co-design, co-owned with communities socialisation - (into global health work) civil society mobilisation inclusion, empowerment social/cultural/ethnic history social - community - group:  psychology	POWER, poverty global - mental health - physical health (parity of health: determinants^) institutional violence co-ownership paternalism, colonialism humanitarianism NGOs - WHO - Institutions (political) systems decision-making (where, when, who, how ...?) finance - resources 'development' political history

^All of them...

Burgess, R.A. (2023). Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315623788

My source: Twitter

Please also note the inter- multi- transdisciplinary bridges provided by Hodges' model, including well established 'avenues' of psycho-social, socio-technical, psycho-political, geo-political, socio-economic and others.