Humanising health: conflict, equity, and resilience

Podcasts Analysis Opinion Recordings Meeting report World Health Innovation Summit (WISH) 2024 BMJ Group partnered with the Qatar Foundation to support the World Health Innovation Summit (WISH) 2024, a leading global health event that brings together policymakers, researchers, and healthcare professionals. ...

Gender pay gaps persist among leading science publishers

Findings indicate how women are being undervalued by their employers, argue journal editors Despite promises to close the gender gap, leading science publishers have maintained large and persistent gender pay gaps favouring men since 2017, finds an analysis of eight years of data, published by PLOS Global Public Health today. ...

2025-06-10T15:39:28+01:0010 June 2025|Corporate announcement|

Flour fortification with folic acid

A major step forward for UK public health In November 2024, the UK government announced legislation mandating folic acid fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour, effective by the end of 2026. This landmark policy will reduce neural tube defects (NTDs), serious birth defects affecting brain and spinal cord development that can ...

2026-04-09T13:23:56+01:0010 June 2025|Corporate announcement, Our impact|

Why an intersectional gender approach matters for social innovations in health 🌍

Health challenges go beyond clinical interventions—social, cultural, and political factors deeply influence outcomes. Recognising how gender intersects with socio-economic factors is crucial for achieving health equity.   The latest collection in BMJ Innovations, produced in partnership with TDR, explores innovations to ensure interventions are inclusive and responsive to marginalised groups ...

BMJ Future Health and Learner+ partner to transform continuing professional development for health professionals

Helping health professionals turn everyday learning into accredited continuing professional development reflections BMJ Group's comprehensive education programme, BMJ Future Health, has partnered with Learner+, the UK's first smart reflective platform, to transform continuing professional development (CPD) for health professionals. This collaboration makes capturing and converting everyday learning into structured CPD ...

2025-05-09T10:05:19+01:009 May 2025|Corporate announcement, Partnership|

China’s malaria-free status offers crucial lessons for other areas

Special BMJ collection explores China's path to elimination and how it may inform strategies elsewhere, but experts warn that funding declines would reverse hard won gains China’s success in achieving malaria-free status in 2021 offers crucial lessons for the global malaria fight, say experts in a special collection of articles published by The ...

BMJ Investigations Unit empowers councils to challenge fast food planning decisions

An exclusive BMJ investigation has uncovered how McDonald’s is systematically undermining councils’ efforts to block new outlets—particularly in deprived areas of England, where rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high. Based on freedom of information requests to the Planning Inspectorate, The BMJ found that McDonald’s has lodged 14 planning ...

2026-04-09T13:23:59+01:0014 April 2025|Corporate announcement, Our impact|
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