Dr Adam Benkwitz
Reader at Birmingham Newman University.
Public health, mental health, physical activity, social recovery. PFHEA, CATE.
AVFC STH.
newman.ac.uk/staff/adam-benkwitz/
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzLast month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest. I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care: medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
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- An interesting three days ahead at the @hepaeurope.bsky.social HEPA Europe Network 16th Annual International Conference in Kaunas, Lithuania. Strong public health underpinning from opening talks from @who.int World Health Organization and European Union representatives. #HEPA2025
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzIndia, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths
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- A pleasure to be back at The 7th International Refocus on Recovery Conference for my fifth time talking about mental health, physical activity and personal recovery. Thanks to Nottingham’s Institute of Mental Health and Stefan Rennick-Egglestone Prof Mike Slade for another great event. #RonR2025
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzI’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzI am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzEighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzHappy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzAre you interested in developing better ways to support people living with poor mental and physical health? Then this funded PhD at @newcastleuni.bsky.social could be for you! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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View full threadReposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzIn the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday. By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children. Today, in 2025, that number is *7* And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology. 9/
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzThis is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzScientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzSomeone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
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- Reposted by Dr Adam BenkwitzIf only we had studies on autism and vaccines using nationally-complete healthcare data showing no association between the two. Like, uh, this one from Denmark.
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