We asked you (our wonderful readers and community) for recommendations… books, articles, podcasts and more, broadly related to population health and epidemiology. Here’s what you said.
Books
Human Compatible, by Stuart Russell Described by @DaniKim_02 as ‘A comprehensive but succinct reading about where the advances in AI are taking us… a great mix of technical practical and philosophical content’.
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data, by David Spiegelhalter For @diegojehu this ‘a rather smooth intro to stats that one can read before bedtime’, which is ‘Hilarious, clever and visually enticing’. And if you’re not already convinced, here’s a review to whet your appetite...
Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods, by Mel Bartley Perhaps straying away from bedtime reading, in the words of @mei_s_chan this is ‘an excellent medical sociology textbook’.
Factfulness, by Hans Rosling This got a 10/10 recommendation from @LilianMEHartman, who described it as ‘an amazing global health book drawing on the use of statistics as to why we all view the health and status of the world in a specific, and often wrong, way.’
Others:
- Governing Global Health. Who Runs the World and Why? by Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
- The Health Gap. The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
- Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by David Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition & Health by Marion Nestle
- Savoury Truth by Marion Nestle
- The Strategy of Preventive Medicine by Geoffrey Rose
- Population Health Science by Katherine M. Keyes and Sandro Galea
- Jamkhed: The Comprehensive Rural Health Project by Mabelle Arole and Rajanikant Arole
- An Introduction to Population Level Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases by Rayner et al.
Podcasts and videos
Free associations This podcast analyses recent publications/ news reports from an epidemiological perspective - with a 'good balance between technical detail and accessibility'.
Joshua Starmer's StatQuest channel According to @lhurilhuri, not only are these videos 'great for brushing up your stats comprehension', they are 'so funny you can watch them while cooking!'
Casual Inference This podcast on 'all things causal inference, in non-technical terms', was described by @R_Walms as having 'a great range of guests' and 'a focus on things which matter in epi/the world'.
Articles and blogs
The Thesis Whisperer Described by @mei_s_chan as ‘a treasure trove of advice on getting through the PhD or writing a thesis’ - who can resist that?!
Mosaic Science Though this one is sadly no longer producing new content, @R_Walms described what’s there already as ‘deep dives on diverse health topics’.
Statistical Thinking (Ok, technically the recommendation from @mei_s_chan was 'anything written by Frank Harrell' - this is his blog) Its topic is 'statistical thinking and its impact on science and everyday life' - wow!!
Others:
- Public health: Ethical issues Report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- Global Health Now
- NCD Alliance blog
- George Institute
- Our World in Data
Over to you
If you’ve been inspired by this to get reading/ listening/ watching, let us know what you think by commenting below.
With many thanks to all the contributors!
What to read next
Public health on the big screen
9 March 2017