Kamran Abbasi

Cambridge

Editor-in-Chief at The BMJ

Articles

Why we should forgive debt for poorer countries-and medical students

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi

Editor's Choice BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r744 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r744 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chiefThe BMJkabbasi{at}bmj.comThe global conversation is locked into trade deficits. While tariffs can be temporary, as we’re seeing, debt has a longer term impact. The question is, if we truly believe that people and countries should have an opportunity to flourish and prosper, how do our finance systems—that hardwire debt—support those ambitions?
The assault on US science: a deep dive with Ashish Jha

2 weeks ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi |Mun-Keat Looi

Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief, Mun-Keat Looi, international features editorThe BMJThe BMJ’s editor met with Ashish Jha, dean of public health and former covid response coordinator to President Biden, to discuss the state of science and public health in the USAshish Jha is dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and previously professor of global health at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Smartphone and social media harms: why we failed in our duty of care

3 weeks ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi

Editor's Choice BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r658 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:r658 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chiefThe BMJkabbasi{at}bmj.comThe Netflix series Adolescence is hard to escape.
Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War: The Role of Health Professionals

1 month ago | ncmedicaljournal.com | Kamran Abbasi |Parveen Ali |Virginia Barbour |Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

To the Editor -In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war. In August 2022, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the world is now in "a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War". The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear-armed states.
NHS England: divorced, beheaded, died

1 month ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi

Intended for healthcare professionals News & ViewsNHS England: divorced,...
Trust and the Palantir question

1 month ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi

Editor's Choice BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r452 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r452 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chiefThe BMJkabbasi{at}bmj.comIn healthcare we trust—or do we? A breakdown in trust, like the schism in the transatlantic alliance, should make us think again about whether the current model requires reinvention.
Medical journals should use the term “public health and social measures”

1 month ago | bmj.com | Azeem Majeed |Kamran Abbasi

Editorials BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r409 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r409 Azeem Majeed, professor of primary care and public health1, Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief2 1Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK 2BMJ, London, UK Correspondence to: A Majeed a.majeed{at}imperial.ac.uk @Azeem_Majeed on X It’s time to move away from talking about “non-pharmaceutical interventions” The covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of public...
The dilemmas of investing in health and humanity

1 month ago | journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi

A 10 year NHS plan is expected this year. It is rightly a long term plan, however, it will require a clear sense of hardwired values as well as concrete actions to address the immediate challenges to patient care. Seeing health as an investment should be central to the plan. The UK government has frequently acknowledged the link between a healthy workforce and economic growth. In turn, a healthy workforce is dependent on health in all policies and, importantly, the wellbeing of staff in the NHS.
The UK’s cuts to development aid are morally repugnant

1 month ago | bmj.com | Kamran Abbasi

Editor's Choice BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r416 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r416 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief The BMJ kabbasi{at}bmj.com It’s hard to ignore Donald Trump and the deep harm he’s inflicting on health, both in the US and worldwide (doi:10.1136/bmj.r370 doi:10.1136/bmj.r357 doi:10.1136/bmj.r356 doi:10.1136/bmj.r279 doi:10.1136/bmj.r395 doi:10.1136/bmj.r288 doi:10.1136/bmj.r289).1234567 The assault is so multipronged that it’s mindboggling to fully identify,...
COMMENT: Pakistan need a miracle after India loss exposes team’s white-ball shortcomings

2 months ago | dawn.com | Kamran Abbasi

PAKISTAN’S winless return after two matches in their own tournament is an absolute humiliation for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). I say the PCB because it is they who have overseen the humbling decline of Pakistan’s white-ball cricket. The players don’t pick themselves or decide strategy alone; it is the PCB that selects the coaching staff and the players, and therefore, controls how the team will represent the country.