Dr Lucinda Hiam
2025-26 Harkness Fellow @Brown School of Public Health and Boston College | GP and global public health doctor | Clarendon Scholar @UniofOxford | Commissioner on the @BMJ Future of the NHS | Member @RCGP | Honorary Member @FPH.
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- 🇺🇸 Have you seen a US health policy move forward even when political views were deeply polarized? We're collecting examples as part of my Harkness Fellowship project on how people come together to advance health policy in divided environments. 🔗Share examples here: forms.gle/tXR6MGby4fee...
- ❓What happens when mistrust of science moves from the fringe to the centre of health policy? 📄 In a new @bmj.com Opinion, I write about the Children’s Health Defense conference in Texas and what it reveals about mistrust, polarisation, and the limits of evidence in public health. 🧵
- 📄 New paper out in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine with @robaldridge.bsky.social, Rachel Burns, and analysis led by @jonminton.bsky.social ❓How does mortality compare by country/region of birth in England & Wales, 2007–2021? doi.org/10.1177/0141... 🧵⬇️
- “Is anyone here carrying a gun?” In @bmj.com I reflect on America’s relationship with guns, and why the leading cause of death for ages 1–17 is missing from MAHA’s child health plan. Whose freedom is being protected? www.bmj.com/content/391/... Thanks to @billkole.bsky.social @nelbamg.bsky.social
- Amid the US shutdown, my latest @bmj.com column asks why the world’s most expensive health system still fails to deliver fair, universal care. 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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- 🚨 PhD Opportunity 🇬🇧 Are migrants in the UK living longer lives but in worse health? Work with the brilliant @mjwdemography.bsky.social exploring the immigrant morbidity–mortality paradox 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 Deadline: 1 August @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social
- ⚖️ Can a digital NHS be equitable? In our @bmj.com editorial @jessrmorley.bsky.social @eleanorbarry.bsky.social & I argue that while AI in healthcare promises transformation, it rests on three flawed assumptions that risk worsening inequalities 👇 www.bmj.com/content/389/... (1/5)
- 1️⃣ Everyone's online. They’re not. 1.6 million people in the UK remain offline limiting access to care, digital services, and health tools. Digital exclusion disproportionately affects many of those already facing the greatest health challenges. (2/5)
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- Our @bmj.com editorial ahead of the #SpringStatement ❌ There’s no evidence that cutting social security boosts economic activity—it’s neither "moral" nor effective. ✅ Gains come from investing in health. 💡 Solving the austerity-fuelled health crisis needs political will & strong public services.
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- 📢 Austerity is a public health emergency Cuts to welfare & public services have worsened health, driving rising mid-life mortality & health inequalities. Yet, more cuts are coming. With @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social & David Walsh in @bmj.com we call for the health community to speak out 1/2
- ✅ Advocate for a reversal of austerity policies to restore public services & welfare ✅ Communicate the role of health as a key economic driver and the impact of economic policy on health ✅ Expose false narratives & push for evidence-based policy Without action, the UK’s health crisis will deepen.
- Honoured to be elected to Honorary Membership of the Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social @profkevinfenton.bsky.social Thank you @martinmckee.bsky.social & @robaldridge.bsky.social for the support, & the FPH board for the award. Looking forward to contributing further to public health.
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- Is the UK public ready for radical change to improve health? A series of citizens assemblies on priorities for action beyond the NHS on health could help provide an answer. With @rebeccamckee.bsky.social & Bob Klaber in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/386/...
