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ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2025

How Can 'Health in All Policies' Help Maximise the Potential of Microbial Biotechnologies for Health, Equity and Sustainability?

Margaret J Douglas, Liz Green, James Timmis, Timo Clemens, Kenneth Timmis

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Review in Microbial biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Margaret J DouglasPublic Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1560-5451
Liz GreenDepartment of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute - CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-3526
James TimmisDepartment of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7773-0859
Timo ClemensDepartment of International Health, Care and Public Health Research Institute - CAPHRI, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6820-2202
Kenneth TimmisInstitute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0066-4670

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial biotechnologies could affect health through multiple pathways, including impacts on food, nutrition, and the physical, economic, and social environment. Health in All Policies is an approach to ensure that plans and policies in all sectors maximise health gains and minimise any health risks. This approach often uses health impact assessment as a structured process to identify and assess positive and negative health impacts and make recommendations to improve these. There are very few examples where HIA has been applied to the implementation of microbial biotechnologies. As more biotechnologies are developed and implemented, more routine use of HIA could help to avoid adverse effects and realise their potential to improve health and reduce health inequalities. This will require greater awareness and understanding of the breadth of links to health, research to build the evidence base for these links, and governance mechanisms to oversee the development and implementation of microbial biotechnologies that prioritise health, equity and sustainability.

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BiotechnologyHealth PolicyHealth Impact AssessmentHumansgovernancehealth impact assessmenthealth in all policiesmicrobial biotechnologysocietal impact

Identifiers

PMID40629758
PMCPMC12238679

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