Kamran Abbasi

“The NHS was founded on principles of fairness of a comprehensive service universally available based on clinical need free at the point of need funded through Collective contributions otherwise known as general Taxation and this debate is not about a mixed model or where the NHS is failing it's about whether or not we'...”

— From Dr Kamran Abbasi | This House Would Privatise The NHS | Cambridge Union, Cambridge Union (October 01, 2024)

“Privatization does not work take the railways take the water companies the energy companies all privatized in this country in the 1980s and 1990s all now struggling and potentially being renationalized.”

— From Dr Kamran Abbasi | This House Would Privatise The NHS | Cambridge Union, Cambridge Union (October 01, 2024)

“our policy is this that for all clinical trials you have to share your data before we publish your trial and that doesn't apply to observational studies or to cohort studies but for all for all studies you have to share your code because it's possible to do so”

— From The BMJ: Transparency and trust in medical science - Kamran Abbasi, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science (December 05, 2024)

“we're being besieged in medical journals through fraud research misconduct like never before and Open Access publishing has made that more of a challenge the business model of Journal is being challenged so we're in a bit of a you know I think we've never had a situation like this it's a bit of a firestorm and that's w...”

— From The BMJ: Transparency and trust in medical science - Kamran Abbasi, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science (December 05, 2024)

“We need experts because experts synthesize evidence, they synthesize policy, they support politicians, they support decision makers, and they support democracy. They support democracy by providing another view on the political decision-making that actually helps populations hold their governments accountable and that i...”

— From Kamran Abbasi | This House Has Had Enough of Experts, Cambridge Union (December 23, 2022)

“The political role of transparent scientific advice is not just to enable policy making, it is also to enable accountability for failures such as the ones we saw in the covid-19 pandemic. Two hundred thousand excess deaths speak for themselves.”

— From Kamran Abbasi | This House Has Had Enough of Experts, Cambridge Union (December 23, 2022)

“the main lesson to emerge from the pandemic is this reaffirmation that despite all the modern technology and the modeling and the modern ways of doing things and treatments and new approaches that people might be proposing or hypothesizing about that traditional old-school public health still has a very important place...”

— From Why is The BMJ still so successful after 180 years? Dr Kamran Abbasi explains in his own words., BMJ Group (June 09, 2022)

“my editorship will be about arguing for what I've just described to you which is the prioritization of health and well-being outcomes globally in society in arenas that you know that argument needs to be made and to me that is the way of creating a better world and a healthier world and a healthier planet.”

— From Why is The BMJ still so successful after 180 years? Dr Kamran Abbasi explains in his own words., BMJ Group (June 09, 2022)

“we're also one of the only journals where all our research is open access so anybody anywhere can read our research papers access them online and we believe that's a public good and and good for Science and for healthcare”

— From Dr Kamran Abbasi, Executive Editor, The BMJ, London, ETHealthWorld (June 25, 2017)

“unfortunately the message is that yes there has been progress but that doesn't mean that the problems still aren't huge there are still very large problems and challenges faced by the re region and new new ones have emerged so the issues of communic communicable diseases stay U with South Asia but we're increasingly se...”

— From Dr Kamran Abbasi, Executive Editor, The BMJ, London, ETHealthWorld (June 25, 2017)