Adjunct Prof @terryslevin, CEO of @_PHAA_ recently published an overview @CroakeyNews of the Dept of Health & Aged Care's discussion paper on the plans for a national CDC
"Looking at that quote & the Grattan Report side by side, it’s easy to feel like not much progress has been made in general practice policy in the three decades between them" – @JenniferDoggett
"Traditional Owners, health researchers, doctors and concerned community members have called for real-time ambient air quality monitoring to be undertaken and for data to be made publicly available" – @Jade_Braddy
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* sourcing health updates via Twitter, media releases etc
* attending webinars & meetings
* commissioning stories
* working on special projects
* editing opeds & other stories
Our social journalism team of editors, contributing editors, columnists & collaborators come from across Australia (and one from the UK!), with a wide range of backgrounds & skills.
As @MelissaSweetDr has tweeted this morning, one of her favourite stories of #ResearchTranslation is how @AKction2 go about it...with an important focus on involving patients in the research from the beginning! AB
Huge shout out to funding consortium members @AHPA_AU, the only professional association in Australia specifically for people involved in practice, policy, research & study of health promotion.
.@AHPA_AU have member branches in each state/territory and keep busy advocating for health promotion, such as their submission to gambling harm Inquiry, & supporting members through their #healthpromotion activities
On #AppreciationDay, the @CroakeyNews & @CroakeyServices team sends a big shout out to @LowitjaInstitut for wide-ranging work for health and wellbeing through quality research, knowledge translation and by supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health researchers
The @LowitjaInstitut & @JanineMilera have been longstanding supporters of public interest journalism in so many ways, including as a #HealthEquityStar member of the Croakey Funding Consortium
The connections between public interest journalism and research translation are many; something @MegBastard will explore tomorrow as part of the #CroakeyFundingDrive. Don't miss this new Pathways to Research toolkit lowitja.org.au/page/services/…