Health Advisor @PunainenRisti | Nurse and Midwife with my ❤️ in community health systems and my 🧠 on behavioural design. she/her
Oct 17, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
I have a story about MENSTRUATION. Specifically my menstruation. Which is not in itself a special thing because like many people on earth I BLEED.
But it’s special because it happened in Istanbul’s International Airport @igairport Also I’m pretty angry. 1/
To set a scene that I think many people might recognise, I unexpectedly found myself without my chosen menstrual hygiene method in the airport between two long flights. 2/
Jun 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
This is my favourite modern public health experiment ever. After years of my life focusing only on this crappy #Aedes mosquito I could not be more happy to read this. But, hidden here amongst the incredible science is what it took to get this to work 1/5 theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
To make this successful, and when I say successful I mean wildly successful: 77% reduction of dengue in an urban setting! Urban is hard! They undertook some of the best #CommunityEngagement I have ever seen.2/5