Thread by @WePublicHealth

Good afternoon from #Naarm

Featured in this tweet and the one following are all pieces of street art from Naarm (some legal, some sneaky) that celebrate First Nations Australians. Perhaps some of you recognise where they are from?

The tram one should be familar to most Victorians and is part of @risingmelbourne 2022 First Peoples art trams rising.melbourne/wormhole/2022-… It is called Blak Love and is by Dr Paola Balla (Wemba Wemba-Gunditjmara)

This afternoon I want to start by saying that both illness & lack of internet coverage down in Somers (on Bunurong Country) threw a real spanner in the works for my @WePublicHealth tweeting 😥

https://twitter.com/LopeyPen/status/1634795767423713282

Penny from the past excitedly emailed Croakey asking to tweet for the week on the things things I'm passionate about (#SystemsThinking #PublicHealth #PublicHealthLearning #InternationalWomensDay) but Penny from the future was over subscribed, lacked energy, didn't have internet!

So this afternoon/evening I am going to try and make up for it and hope that (a) I make some sense and (b) Croakey team still kind of likes me 🫰🙏

Photos taken last time I was on #lutruwita which was also the last time I saw @MelissaSweetDr in person ❤️

But first some housekeeping. The photographs included in this thread includes photographs taken by Monica Clements ❤️

https://twitter.com/WePublicHealth/status/1633429319530971138

I am not sure who is hosting @WePublicHealth next (I may have missed this though! @CroakeyNews) but I hope they will do some tweeting about this week three years ago.

This thread from yesterday was quite the trip down memory lane

https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1634485371785338882

@CroakeyNews I looked through my photos today to remember exactly how I felt three years ago. I was on #Larrakia land, very far away from most of my community (although definitely not alone) feeling very confused about all that was happening.

https://twitter.com/LopeyPen/status/1240151166270480384

And....apparently according to my twitter account I was ONCE AGAIN hosting @WePublicHealth & I would say probably doing a better job than I did this week!

PS - when was the last time - if you are able to - you donated blood? @lifebloodau

https://twitter.com/LopeyPen/status/1239396324060983296

@lifebloodau Its super interesting - now that I know how to do it - to use Twitters advance search to explore what people were tweeting about in March 2020, like this one

https://twitter.com/ProfPCDoherty/status/1243330134104371201

And this one

https://twitter.com/MelissaSweetDr/status/1240761247810772992

also this one

https://twitter.com/Globalbiosec/status/1240755061728268288

No matter what, three years on, as we discuss a pandemic that some of us (including me) need reminding isn't over...are we applying lessons learnt? changing the way we work?

And on topic for where I started this week tweeting - how can #SystemsThinking be part of this process?

This article is a great place to start if you are new to pondering #SystemsThinking & our response to not only #Covid19 but more broadly in #PublicHealth

https://twitter.com/ElaineS_Hobart/status/1569558893021495296

Also for those of us who missed this @PHAA event last year or want to revisit

https://twitter.com/mishymorgs/status/1577841138052239360

@phaa It is the fourth tweet in this thread which needs significant systems change from my perspective....

https://twitter.com/peoplesvaccine/status/1634353506600509440