Nason Maani

@spidermaani

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) @GHPUEdinburgh Visiting @BUSPH @LSHTM @theRSAorg, Senior Harkness Fellow. Podcast: tinyurl.com/4auryeyf #CDoH

Edinburgh sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/nason-ma… Joined December 2011

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Nason Maani @spidermaani Oct 28

Congratulations and well done Mohammed for speaking so eloquently to this!

The BMJ @bmj_latest Oct 27

"Nature doesn't decide whether people go to war or not, right? People do. Institutions do."

Mohammed Abba-Aji joins The BMJ Podcast to discuss climate and conflict, and how humans decide where funding is spent: on militaries, or on health.

Listen now: apple.co/4uZfh61

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Nason Maani @spidermaani Dec 31, 2025

New substack post, a year in review: nasonmaani.substack.com/p/2025-in-revi…

nasonmaani.substack.com 2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise Some personal reflections and a note of hope

Nason Maani @spidermaani Nov 27, 2025

Thanks so much @CaulfieldTim!! :)

Timothy Caulfield Verified account @CaulfieldTim Nov 19, 2025

Sum: $$$$

Politics & Profit of Disinformation in Public Health annualreviews.org/content/journa… by @marco_zenone @spidermaani et al. 🙏

Really important piece by some terrific colleagues. The incentives baked into our current information economy drive bunk.

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Nason Maani @spidermaani Oct 11, 2025

This weeks substack essay is with @sandrogalea on what public health can learn from the history of ideas in navigating the challenges of the moment: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaani…

Nason Maani @spidermaani Oct 4, 2025

New Money Power Health substack essay just out: The Hidden Shallows of Academic Impact Metrics 📊

Why “impact” is too often defined by what can be measured, not what matters.

Full piece here: open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaani…

nasonmaani.substack.com The hidden shallows of academic “impact” metrics and the importance of acknowledging the important, however unmeasurable