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Associate Professor @UCL |Scholar activist|Communities|Global Mental Health|Deputy Director @UCL_NCD | Views own. Likes & R/T not endorsements. 🇨🇦🇯🇲 in 🇬🇧

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

This is the only thing I have written, then when I read it again, I don't want to throw it in the bin. Perhaps because it is full of my feelings, full of me. Which is so hard to achieve in academic writing. I hope you enjoy it.

@GlobalHealthBMJ

BMJ Global Health

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2 years

“Perhaps, as we look for new ways to ‘fix’ the discipline, we can lean into the complexity of the wake, and ... accept the uncomfortable path which works in search of social change in true partnership with the voices of everyday people” New Editorial ➡️

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

The reason I find academia so hard, is I am wired for a kind of love that this place cannot sustain. I think of ways to cite colleagues, to lift them up, to support them. All the time. It is not reciprocal with so many others. I find it painful. I'm not sure how long I can last.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

Wow. As of Oct 1st, I’ll be an Associate Professor in Global Health @UCLGlobalHealth . Being 👩🏽 and an activist in #academia is only possible through the love and care I have received. Thank you from the bottom of my ❤️. The struggle to change #globalhealth continues ✊🏾

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

No, you may not do this. Sorry, but you may not. Your policy 'recomendations' contributed to the disproportionate death of black people in western countries - particularly in the US. So, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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2 years

"The comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

Hey JCVI - just how many children need to die for you to wake up? Just curious what your number is. Oh, and if you will be planning to personally apologise to all the families who must bear the unimaginable grief of losing a child while you dither and delay?

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

I have felt for a long time that mental health is as much about the worlds we live in, as it is about the mind. My plea for how we build this into our #Covid #mentalhealth response is out today in ⁦ @nature ⁩ 👇🏾

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COVID-19 mental-health responses neglect social realities

Nature - A diagnosis is rarely a solution to problems caused by poverty and inequality.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I have noticed scholars who know me, and my work, write about things I have published on, innovated - without citing me. This is how the erasure of black women's scholarship happens - by the people who claim to be your colleagues. I see you, and my memory is long.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I finished it. Since signing the contract, I : got married. buried a father in law. changed jobs twice. had a baby. had long covid. lost a baby. buried my father. Now it may be messy but a full draft is FINALLY done. @KerryatAuckland some holiday reading coming your way soon.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

This is bad. on so many levels. The anxiety of people in England, is well founded & rooted in BAD policy. There is NO MEDITATION APP that is going to fix government failings. Channel your anxiety into action - write/call your MP, fill their inbox. Remind them who they work for.

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3 years

As #COVID19 restrictions ease, some of us may be feeling a bit anxious. The #EveryMindMatters website shares 11 tips to cope with anxiety about returning back to normal:

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

STAY OUT OF AFRICA YOU HORRIBLE EXCUSES FOR HUMAN BEINGS WHAT THE HELL HAS POSSESSED YOU TO DO THIS????

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2 years

A US Christian legal organisation + a Texas-based think tank linked to the Great Barrington Declaration are among those promoting anti-lockdown + #vaccine hesitancy messages in #Uganda . Joint @allthecitizens + @openDemocracy investigation by me + @SoitaKW

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

@ztsamudzi Honestly I loved that cover and he had to open his damn mouth and just say things. Why. Now it’s tarnished by his foolishness

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

More good news - I will be joining the new and already fantastic editorial board team at @PLOSGPH - as a section editor for Global Mental Health. I am SO excited for this opportunity to push the boundaries in so many ways.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@dgurdasani1 London is a travel hub. I would not be surprised if it was already here. We need a mask mandate and we need it yesterday.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

Thank you all for the encouragement - and the love - and the reminder, that we need to build and find our communities. Perhaps after a real rest (coming up soon) I'll be better able to see (and remember - because I have some brilliant humans out there) who are in mine ❤️❤️✊

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

England’s New #COVID strategy fails at basics of health communication strategies. Much worse- just like every global health crisis before - it individualises risk and ignores structural and relational environments that determine behaviours and outcomes.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

COVID IS NOT OVER. All that's gained, from a desire to believe this, is wave after wave after wave. What do we need for people to care enough, for this to end? Must loss touch each and every one of us directly? Surely we are better than this.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

We lost a good one, a real one. Rest in power @DrNadiaChaudhri

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

After I recovered from covid, I lost a pregnancy; a baby we wanted; a sibling for Theo. Yet, I still didn't know it was #BabyLossAwarenessWeek . This is how far the topic is from our collective conscious. Read this, share it, change this (N.B it may be triggering for some).

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It's baby loss awareness week. So many people I know have been through miscarriage, which can be a devastating experience. Here is the best article I have read on the subject

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

Putting people of colour into big roles that ultimately damage people of colour is not an accident. It is strategy.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

Theo: mummy what day is it? Me: Monday Husband: and international women’s day! Theo: what’s that? Me: once a year the works celebrates that women do amazing things and don’t get paid for it. Theo: that’s not fair. Not sweetie, it isn’t.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

HAPPY NEWS: I have been named in the #CWIGH 2020 Canadian Women in Global Health List !! (which makes me miss home even more) The list formally launches at the Canadian Conference in Global Health, next Tuesday afternoon & you can still register.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Losing a pregnancy breaks your heart in ways you can't fathom, until it happens. Then it is shrouded in secret & you are often alone, feel guilty about feeling sad, and sad about feeling guilty. Thank you @chrissyteigen for making space in your grief, to help make space for ours.

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chrissy teigen

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Well there you have it. The pecking order of British society. Verified in numbers. If you aren’t weeping, like I just spent the past 30 minutes, then you don’t get it. Is this @ONS data enough to act? Or do we still need more? #COVID19 #racism #inequality

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

Let me clearly, and without hesitation, say: NO. A THOUSAND TIMES NO The solution to a broken social world, is not gene editing. It's the repair of the social world.

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Does gene editing hold the key to improving mental health?

Research suggests traumatic childhood experiences embed themselves in our brains and put us at risk of mental illness, but epigenetic editing may offer us hope of removing them

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

5 months

I have not advertised the publication my book, because more important things are happening. But if I had to pick one accomplishment for 2023 it’s this. I hope the world finds some use for it. Also: Free Palestine, and Ceasefire now.

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Rethinking Global Health | Frameworks of Power | Rochelle A. Burgess |

This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

My husband took a picture of me. One of the few with my natural hair. It's about time (also helped by the fact that he's a pretty good photographer).

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

"Listening to those who have the most at stake will pave the way for much needed change and widespread engagement with and support for COVID-19 vaccination campaigns." - our plea for people power to enable uptake for a (people's) vaccine out in @TheLancet

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

Walk good, Daddy. I’ll keep fighting that good fight. Rest in power.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

This is a really exciting appointment for me, as I am hoping to do more work on mental health and vulnerable communities in the UK and Europe - helping translate innovations from the global south in these spaces. Watch this space ! (ok, bye!)

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3 years

Congratulations to @thewrittenro as a new Fellow of the YAE ( #FYAE ) since March 2021. Welcome!

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

It's an honour and a privilege to have been awarded one of the @UKRI_News @ESRC @NewtonFund awards to develop #community led approaches to improving mental health systems in Colombia for those affected by the conflict. Read our press release at the link below to find out more !

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UCL Global Health

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3 years

Improving local mental health services for those affected by conflict is a Colombian national priority. We're proud to work with @GobiernoUAndes + @LSE_PBS using #ParticipatoryActionResearch to design community mental health services from the bottom up: 🇨🇴🇬🇧

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

8 months

Well!! Maybe my author copies will arrive soon !!?! this is insane….

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Nancy Nyutsem 🍉🇵🇸

8 months

Look at what I got in the post today!!!! @thewrittenro So excited to get into this 😊🙏🏽

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Thinking today about the english teacher who read my stories aloud when I was too shy to celebrate myself. She changed me. Tell your teachers that you appreciate them. That they changed you (if they have). Acknowledge their labour to make you feel seen. I wish I had done it more.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

People don't talk enough about pregnancy loss; People don't leave enough space for your grief. People have no idea. That's it, that's the tweet.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Tomorrow I am to have a routine surgical procedure, that should not cause me distress. Except I know the disregard the medical profession has for black bodies, especially female bodies, my inability to control that, and I am STRESSED. This is the Psychological labour of racism.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

I just had a paper I have been working on SINCE 2016 accepted for publication in one of my FAV journals - @HPP_LSHTM It's about exactly what we mean when we use 'community' in relation to women's #MentalHealth - and the challenges & opportunities that raises. Stay tuned!!

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

23 days

Over the past two years we have been working on a project to highlight the mental health consequences of the Home office Windrush scandal funded by @GrandChallenges now, we share the fruits of this work, at a month long exhibition at @bcaheritage (1/2)

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

@jasonhickel Don't call it depression my friend. Then they will try to 'treat' it. And we don't need 'treatments' for failed social systems, we need to imagine and build new ways of living.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

The fact that we haven’t solved HIV/AIDS tells you everything you need to know about COVID and our end date. These things are political, structural. We make and sustain pandemics through politics and the misuse of power. We also deserve better #WorldAidsDay2021

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

I stayed up too late. And it was worth it. and this is why. This is exactly why.

@citeblackwomen

Cite Black Women.

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4 years

Listening to history. Black women are making history. No matter our political differences, we fought and bled and died to get to this moment. Black women did this. We have a long fight ahead of us, but tonight let’s take a breath and celebrate. #CiteBlackWomen 👏🏾📚✍🏾💕

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

We do not have the time for this kind of foolishness. Seriously. Get it together, then go read Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" and then come back and apologise.

@TheEconomist

The Economist

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Could this insect be largely responsible for Africa's underdevelopment? http://t.co/0pb8a4GJww http://t.co/RymWEQGzA2

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

NEW PUBLICATION: When I say communities, this is what I mean. We worked with over 300 people to identify priorities, understand power dynamics, and aspects of the trial design. Hopefully this is helpful to others

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Whose knowledge counts? Involving communities in intervention and trial design using community...

Background Current debates in Global Health call for expanding methodologies to allow typically silenced voices to contribute to processes of knowledge production and intervention design. Within...

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 months

On the list of things I’ll be doing before I go on maternity leave, is the official launch for my book 📕- please join me in conversation with some brilliant women in the global health space. Details below 👇🏾

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Rethinking Global Health Book Launch

Join us to launch Dr Rochelle Burgess new book 'Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power.'

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

Let me make this clear: WEAR A FACE MASK BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE DO NOT CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE, THIS IS A MAN WHO IS TRYING TO SAVE HIS OWN ASS. Case levels are NOT low enough to justify ending masks in enclosed spaces. Mother of mercy.

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Boris Johnson scraps Plan B restrictions: 😷facemasks will no longer be compulsory fr Jan 26 🧑‍🎓they won't be required in classrooms fr tomorrow 💻guidance to work from home ends 💉vaccine passports axed

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

@MissChisomo Yes. I took my two year old around the British museum (pre-covid) and told him, very loudly "EVERYTHING IN HERE IS STOLEN." The looks I got gave me so much joy.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

11 months

This is happening. If you’re looking for me around the 29th of September I’ll be off grid hiding from the world (a 🧵)

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Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power

This book reflects and analyses the working of power in the field of global health– and what this goes on to produce. In so doing, Rethinking Global Health asks the pivotal questions of, ‘who is...

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

I will say this again for the people at the back: there is no such thing as a hard to reach community. There are only excluded communities who are tired of being mistreated by bad systems, bad research etc. PLEASE fix your framing.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

This thread will break your heart. And fill the cracks with rage. And hopefully remind you why the people who made things as bad as they are, must be held accountable.

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James McPhee💙

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3 years

My brother died yesterday from covid, he was 56 years old. My last day with him was at my local hospitals ICU. Me, my sister and his family were called and were told we needed to go quickly to say our goodbyes to Cameron. We all got there as quickly as possible.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

More than 3000 people follow me, which if you think about it, feels unreal. I know that's small in some worlds, but for a hippie/scientist who mostly rants about our need to do better, it means a lot. Thank you !!

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Make this viral. Please. What do you think @trishgreenhalgh @profhelenward @Dr2NisreenAlwan - is this as amazing as I think it is? Or am I just starved for clarity????

@SaskiaPopescu

Dr. Saskia Popescu

4 years

Communicating risk and ways to reduce harm is so important right now - it was a treat to work with Drs. @ZekeEmanuel @DrPhillipsMD @COVID19Consult on a way to approach activities & things to consider. Addressing opportunities for improvement can help guide change

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@Nadine_Writes The levels of failure here. THE LEVELS. Of course he can't tell black people apart. That is standard. BUT YOU CAN'T TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOOTBALL AND RUGBY?? IN THIS COUNTRY???

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@SamerAbdelnour the absolute scenes of twitter at the moment. absolute scenes. People showing themselves out.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@kelechnekoff It was the description of the bracelets for me man. The gold bangles. I could hear them tinkling as she walked around the classroom. How black women make people, save people, lawd.

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3 years

Twenty years ago I graduated high school. If you had told me this kind of happiness was in my future I would have laughed in your face. Thank god for good therapy.

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5 years

10 yrs ago my PhD argued for the need to broaden how we define the social in Global #mentalhealth . Today, along with amazing colleagues, we lay out how to achieve this globally through social interventions in @TheLancetPsych Read more here-

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I wrote this with @netshrink and @PCollins_gmh on the hardest day of my life - before giving my father’s eulogy. Thinking about his life and his struggles with mental health and society, was the starting place for this panel. Maybe if you write with your soul, the world listens.

@TheLancet

The Lancet

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"...under the wrong set of social circumstances, everyone is vulnerable to mental health problems." #WorldMentalHealthDay : prioritise social justice, not only access to care—a Comment by Soumitra Pathare @netshrink and colleagues.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

I’ve said it a lot recently. But it bears repeating. This government is a damn disgrace. And the worst thing is, they don’t care that we know it.

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Kate Clanchy

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R is our school's top English student. She got 9 at GCSE. She got A at AS. She is studious, precise, deeply thoughtful. She has just had her A Level grade reduced from A* to C, apparently just because she goes to a disadvantaged school. It might help if you liked her poem.

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@dgurdasani1 I’m sorry Deepti. It’s heartbreaking and pathetic and exhausting and what you do every day matters. Thank you for it.

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3 years

It’s finally out !! Our critical review takes a snapshot of global mental health and how the idea of community is used, in interventions across Africa. Lots to learn, and further to go, to have community be as transformative as it could be. Free access:

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In search of ‘community’: a critical review of community mental health services for women in...

Abstract. Community is deemed a central resource for the improvement of health, across disciplines, contexts and conditions. However, what is meant by this

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

So, I won an @acmedsci SPRINGBOARD award ! I will have the joy of working w/ @vanyaradzayi and others in #Zimbabwe to explore the #mentalhealth and #childmarriage relationship across families, and develop #community led Rx to change. Using qual. methods. b/c Social sci. matters!

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Being an academic is hard. Being an academic and a mom is hard. Being a pregnant academic and a mother is nearly impossible. Add to that social justice work and I’m just impossibly exhausted. If I owe you something and it’s late - I am deeply sorry.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

The last three years have included my fair share of loss. Two weeks ago, we survived what could have been a fatal crash - unharmed. So I am reminded there is work to be done; there is love to be given, and joy to be had. And that is really all that matters.

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"In current times, where the world is largely full of antagonistic forms of collective activism and organising, love, care and quiet engagement based on the discovery of shared histories and truths could prove a healing tonic for us all." (2/2)

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2 years

The current people in office, are not fit for purpose. In fact, they are the exact opposite. They are dangerous. This is beyond dangerous and the only way to stop them, is to vote. Seriously.

@LawtonTri

𝚃𝚘𝚖 𝙻𝚊𝚠𝚝𝚘𝚗 💙

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Infection control has been subject to political fiddling throughout the pandemic - I guess there's some solace in the fact there's it's no longer hidden: open hostility to efforts to protect the most vulnerable, in the name of efficiency.

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Every morning, I wake up. I feel a little thump from the little girl growing in me, and I fight back tears for the women in Gaza. What have we done. What have we done.

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Haven’t been able to get out of my head the fact that 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza have no access to healthcare right now. It’s unimaginable, the amount of stress & trauma they’re experiencing. 5,500 are supposed to give birth this month. Bringing new life, surrounded by death.

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@ARobertson1972 @GSMValentina @unruliestbush @dgurdasani1 @mugecevik Why even did you feel the need to say this?? “Fit to lace her shoes!?” Barking Mad? What is your exact problem with Deepti? find a good answer that doesn’t make you sound racist.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

@PaperWhispers now this makes sense. I will now try to leave it alone and focus on other things. also- KATE'S ROOMATE

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@Telegraph Step 1. APOLOGISE TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE SIX CHILDREN. Step 2. APOLOGISE TO THE FAMILIES OF ALL THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE DIED. Step 3. Stop being so horrible. just, STOP BEING SO HORRIBLE.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I've been telling my global health students something like this for ages: work to put yourself out of a job. The goal is one day, you don't need to be there. The goal is transformation. Everything else is maintaining the status quo (That's also the final sentence in my book)

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As I’ve said many times, you cannot be an “expert” on health issues experienced by a community that you do not belong to. Your job is to provide opportunities, resources, & training to people from that community so they can lead. Anything else is colonialism.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@RogerEllens_ @rashaabdulhadi @AdeolaNAderemi Liberation happens when enough people make enough noise to establish the political will to change course. It is entirely within our power. Every civil rights movement has happened because everyday people said enough is enough. Every. Single. One. Donations are distraction.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

This would remove citizenship from me & my son, who is punished for having a Non-British born mum- probably for reasons benign as disagreeing with horrible policies like this. It passed today, while we watched a woman cry for apologising for her awfulness. Many more will weep.

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3 years

Nationality and Borders Bill: 'two in every five people from non-white ethnic minorities (41%) are likely to be eligible for deprivation of citizenship, compared with just one in 20 people categorised as white (5%).' - @NewStatesman

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

INEQUALITY IS A COMORBIDITY - is basically the summary of the arguments my work has made for the past decade. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

4 years

COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities. Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions. Inequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 months

It’s next week !! 🤯 For those in farther flung places - there is now a zoom link to join my book launch. Details/link to register on the eventbrite page 👇🏾

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Rethinking Global Health Book Launch

Join us to launch Dr Rochelle Burgess new book 'Rethinking Global Health: Frameworks of Power.'

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

P.S. remember this on #WorldMentalHealthDay ACHIEVING MENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL IS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE. Not (just) treatment.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

Well it's official ! I'm excited to work alongside @CharleneSunkel and @NeuroKMC to create a new space in the academic landscape to advance - and challenge - the status quo in mental health sciences. Stay tuned ! But also read more here:

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

1 year

📢📢 Announcing PLOS Mental Health, a new @PLOS journal! Delighted to see @thewrittenro & @CharleneSunkel as Editors-in-Chief!

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

This is an AMAZING example of what global health SHOULD be. This is the transformative power of meaningful co-production and research that aims to be transformative through power sharing from the start. The magic bullet? TIME. humility. Power transfer. READ IT 👌🏾👍🏾

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Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá

4 years

New paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ - Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge: lessons from Mexico /Indigenous communities have complex bodies of knowledge, but Western health services approach them as vulnerable people in need of external solutions./

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

@ztsamudzi @ProfSunnySingh The way they refuse to allow this woman any peace was my full realisation of just how racist this country is. And I study racism in health services here, and this was still a shock.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

A rare Non #COVID19 related thread. Our new publication and my first in @PLOSGPH is now out in the world ! (1/n)

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

It's possible to get schools re-opening right. All we require, is a government that actually cares about children, to set out policy in line with evidence, rather than their opinions.

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3 years

Opening schools without sufficient mitigation carries risks. Here I, @Dr2NisreenAlwan @DrZoeHyde @martinmckee @trishgreenhalgh @ReicherStephen @SusanMichie @kprather88 @SarahDRasmussen @HZiauddeen & others share recommendations for safer school re-opening.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Did Lots of tweeting about #WindrushDay today incl. rage about the scandal. I also lost followers. Followers are the new metrics of academic performance. My pain & truth drives my passion for my work. I can’t separate them. Not anymore. Come what may, I guess. #BlackintheIvory

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

@LeighanRenaud Nah sah. That nah go mek it. This whole thread makes me remember so much, and the violence of these spaces. I'm sorry. Your son is a King. ❤️❤️❤️

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Working on a paper, (second round of revisions) where a reviewer refuses to let us name the UK as a hostile environment for asylum seekers. Lord give me strength.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

@kelechnekoff There is always a magic money tree for old white men to play out their fantasies of grandeur and colony.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

@MarcusRashford is a brilliant person who has inspired us to act & reminded us what community can do. But we can't stop at local mobilisation. That is what the government wants - for US to clean up THEIR mess. Community spirit also means we push the government to BE BETTER.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I wrote this paper alongside women I admire, using theory and frameworks absent from the global health space. It starts with a quote by AUDRE LORDE. I wrote through long covid, and a miscarriage. It was worth it. Thank you @vanyaradzayi and @FariraiG for trusting me w/the Nhanga

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JCPH

3 years

Decolonising the ‘safe space’ as an African innovation: the Nhanga as quiet activism to improve women’s health and wellbeing by @vanyaradzayi , @FariraiG & @thewrittenro

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

30 days

I often tell my students that change happens when you hold complexity and sit in the discomfort. THIS is a master class in precisely that. The kids (if I can be forgiven for calling ya’ll that) will be alright. Maybe I can retire now.

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Daniel Krugman

1 month

Since @GlobalHealthBMJ doesn't want the world to hear about Global Health's silence during genocide, we will bring it directly to the people. We do not deserve to be called "Global Health" in the face of genocide. A short thread below 🧵

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

@kelechnekoff Some things: 1. The way that you are able to remain calm in these situations is basically poetry in motion. 2. No one understands what it means to LIVE something. That statement on 'their perception' made me want to throw my phone. 3. Tell me where you got those earrings from

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

I just realised my son says “glitter box” instead of litter box, and that gives me joy to no end and I will never correct him.

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4 years

In 2012 during my PhD I co-edited a special issue about the problems of global mental health and the way forward. It was a fringe idea at the time- something that critical voices read, but not others. Seems time to remind the world that it’s out there

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The role of communities in advancing the goals of the Movement for Global Mental Health - Catherine...

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

@prospect_uk @KateClanchy1 I actually think an apology to the women of colour authors who have been abused, attacked and harmed by your actions, would go a long way. Why can't you see that? What you have written here, puts them in even MORE danger. Why can't you see that???

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

Feeling loved for my 40th birthday- and it started early yesterday with love from my @UCLGlobalHealth family. Thank you all for making me feel so loved !

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

New publication alert !! COURRAGE+ is something I am SO proud to have been a part of. Treatment spaces CAN include action on poverty. And low and behold - #mentalhealth improves. Check our #openaccess article, and watch this space!

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

Not a single person who has studied health communication or public health would have agreed to this. We are being led by a bunch of incompetent fools and it makes me want to weep, and gives me chest pains.

@PolicyRelevant

Rob Ralston

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3 years

as someone who researches public health policy, I'd like to say for the record that this campaign is irresponsible, unethical, victim-blaming bullsh*t we need to push back on this individualist model of covid-19

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

Attending parties was not even close to half of it. And it's not over yet. Our piece in @bmj_latest Loved writing with @clarewenham @martinmckee and @GYamey

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Parties may lead to his downfall, but is this the worst of what Johnson has done?

The parties raise a much bigger issue of accountability and poor pandemic response, argue these authors Sometimes it’s the smaller things that end people’s careers: Al Capone, who evaded punishment...

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

9 months

Got a big rejection today. On an idea I spent about a year thinking slowly about. That felt like the future. That was about true coproduction. Telling myself that it’s because I’m ahead of my time. Sharing because this is just as big a part of academia.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

1 year

This week I’m in Japan (manifesting my future title!) with @WHOWPRO discussing the implementation of the new mental health framework for the region. Discussing the importance of building community mental health competencies, listening to best practice across the region.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

5 months

This is my first endorsement from someone who I don’t know and I honestly have to say I am on cloud nine, because I wanted the book to be exactly this- accessible.

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Rodrigo Henríquez

5 months

A must-read for anyone interested in global health! Rochelle A. Burgess' book explores how power influences the field, making it a fascinating and accessible journey for all. 🌍 #GlobalHealth #PowerDynamics @thewrittenro ⬇️

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

2 years

I have had more than my share of grief and loss since 2020. There are things that need doing, and care that needs giving - to myself. So I’m off twitter for a while - come find me the old school way (not that old school - email, phone call- but I do love a letter !!). Be well.

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

3 years

FINALLY. #coproduction unpacked. Read our #openaccess paper - Time is on our side: operationalising ‘phase zero’ in coproduction of mental health services for marginalised and underserved populations in London

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

7 months

This is a problem that is bigger than RCTs. This is a problem that is about who gets to decide what counts as science. And until that changes, we will forever be in this mess.

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Francisco Pérez

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That RCT where they disconnected people's water in Nairobi was even more unethical than I understood when the original scandal broke

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Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social

4 years

Some of us are tired. Really really tired.

@garyyounge

Gary Younge

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Martin Luther King in the season premier of Game of Thrones (For those not fully up to speed with the crass ignorance of our government here's an explainer. )

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