anita

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Infectious Disease Epidemiologist working on paediatric #AMR
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I've always been an advocate for reducing waste, but when a mainstream media site is giving instructions on darning it speaks volumes to the cost of living crisis #auspol

Darn it! How to mend holey socks at home

Darn it! How to mend holey socks at homewww.theguardian.com With a few tools, it’s possible to bring back your favourite pair of lost soles from sock-drawer purgatory Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Socks that develop holes are one of life’s small irritations. A discomfort and inconvenience so slight it’s easy to forget to remedy it until once again, you’re rummaging through drawers searching for a pair in the right colour that haven’t been split by your big toenail or worn out at the heel. Due to convenience and, well, capitalism, for most of us the remedy is to buy new socks. I relegate the odd ones and holey ones to a canvas tote bag shoved into the back of my wardrobe. There they enter the specific purgatory of broken household items that shouldn’t go in the bin, aren’t fit for donation and can’t be recycled. Mostly I forget about this bag until it’s time to move or reorganise – until now. Continue reading...

Hi #episky, #IDsky, #academicsky - how many of you actually interact with virtual conference poster presentations? A conference has offered this as an option instead of in person, noting that all posters are submitted electronically and viewable on the conference website.

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Rogier van Doorn talks about #AntimicrobialResistance in #Vietnam OUCRU Hanoi tackles widespread resistance due to #AntibioticOveruse via research including trials, stewardship, and surveillance 🧫🔬🧪🧬 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face... #IDSky #MicroSky

Rogier van Doorn: Antimicrobial resistance in Vietnamwww.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk OUCRU Hanoi runs a research program on antimicrobial resistance, focusing on the widespread resistance due to antibiotic overuse. Causing over 1.2 million deaths annually, AMR surpasses many major dis...

Anyone out there want to build me a #globalhealth feed please?

Happy Caturday! #caturday #catsky

Targeting programs and interventions based solely on location is a lazy method - disadvantages Australians are in all areas

Up to 40% of Australia’s disadvantaged children live outside low-income areas, study finds

Up to 40% of Australia’s disadvantaged children live outside low-income areas, study findswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Researchers say authorities will miss many kids in disadvantaged households if they only target lower-income areas Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Up to 40% of disadvantaged children live in middle-to-high income areas, research commissioned by the government has found, making it critical to identify the range of factors associated with disadvantage – not just location. About 22% of Australian children start school developmentally vulnerable, meaning they lack the experiences and environments needed to thrive for preventable reasons. This rises to 33% of children in the most disadvantaged communities. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

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#CDC was informed of 2 more pediatric flu deaths in the week ending 7/6. Both occurred in April. They bring the pediatric death toll for the 2023-24 season to 186, making it the 4th deadliest season, flu-wise, for kids since CDC started collecting these data. www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

Why do people request access to articles through ResearchGate when it's open access... #academicsky

#AntimicrobialResistance has often been described as a silent pandemic - but here is another report saying we need to be shouting louder about this issue which will affect us all #AMR #episky #publichealth #globalhealth #newpublication #newarticlealert academic.oup.com/ofid/advance...

Extensively Antibiotic-resistant Bacterial Infections in Trauma Patients Managed at the Médecins Sans Frontières Tertiary Orthopaedic Centre in Mosul, Iraq: A Case Seriesacademic.oup.com Abstract. The Médecins Sans Frontières Tertiary Orthopaedic Care centre in Mosul, Iraq, provides reconstructive surgery, microbiological analysis, integrat

Hey #episky, join me in celebrating @marybrushe.bsky.social being a finalist in the South Australian Science Excellence and Innovation Awards! She researches the link between screen time and toddler language development - super important #academicsky #scisky www.telethonkids.org.au/news--events...

Early childhood researcher a finalist in peak South Australian science awardswww.telethonkids.org.au A Telethon Kids Institute researcher whose PhD studies highlighted the link between screen time expo

The Aus Gov announces energy discounts for everyday Australians starting July 1. The energy companies (in my case Synergy and AGL) raise their tariffs. Gov should have just sent them the money directly. #auspol

I love how it's assumed I'm a doctor - because goodness forbid a non-clinician/non-phd researcher be doing good work in the infectious diseases field...

This afternoon the House of Representatives in Australia passed a motion to support the recognition of a state of Palestine based on several conditions. This hasn't been reported in mainstream media, only by @6newsau.bsky.social #auspol #polisky #thisisaustralia

Hey Australian #episky - any good examples of active vs passive surveillance? #publichealth

You know it's school holidays because the buses run on time #busthoughts

Anyone else think of male artists for today's connections (1 July) @nytimes.com #nytgames

Whoop whoop, got a poster for #IDweek24 - AMR in adults vs children in Australia. How about you? #episky #IDsky

#episky #globalhealth

Policy Epidemiology: Identifying What Works In Outbreak Preparedness And Response www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/f...

Policy Epidemiology: Identifying What Works In Outbreak Preparedness And Response | Health Affairs Forefrontwww.healthaffairs.org At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts had to extrapolate and design policy recommendations from an insufficient evidence base—a situation that can be improved through policy research and analysis designed to generate better evidence for decision making during outbreaks.

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As a lifelong germspotter, statements like this really frustrate me: "We don’t typically associate hot weather with viral illnesses" www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/covid-...

COVID Is Surging Right Now. Here's What Alarms Doctors The Most.www.huffingtonpost.co.uk Infectious disease experts share what's different about this latest wave and what to know about the new variants.

The decision for @msf.bsky.social to shut down the #accesscampaign is devastating. For an organisation that prides itself on listening to their people, this is one decision we do not agree with #globalhealth #msf #doctorswithoutborders #timefor5 #episky www.treatmentactiongroup.org/letter/an-op...

An Open Letter to Médecins Sans Frontières — Urgent Call to Reverse the Devastating Decision to Shutter the MSF Access Campaign – Treatment Action Groupwww.treatmentactiongroup.org TAG's emergency plea to our allies at MSF to preserve its life-saving and world-changing MSF Access Campaign (Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines) — we need them now more than ever!

Happy Friday, especially to those scrambling to get their WACRF grants finalised #episky #academicsky #grantseason

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❗️Everyone sign this new petition❗️ 🔗 www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... PhD students shouldn’t be in poverty. Simple as that. The Universities Accord said #RaiseTheStipend, but nothing’s happened. Tell parliament you want action! 📢 And tell everyone you know in Oz to sign as well❗️

I understand the importance of good governance but my project has been delayed 7 months so far because of a data transfer agreement that is going around and around in circles... Ugh #academicsky #episky #publishorperish

Hey Belong/Telstra - I don't want more data thank you. So no, I don't want to be automatically moved to a more expensive plan. Why do you have to shut down the cheaper plan options? Yet another example of the cost of living increases. #auspol

Manuscript reviewer commented "you should consider comparing your results to local findings"... There actually are no other manuscripts on this point published in Australia for children. In fact, the only other paper I found in Australia specifically excluded <18 years. #episky #medsky #academicsky

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#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟 In JAMA Pediatrics: "This cohort study ... found that the Texas abortion ban was associated with unexpected increases in infant and neonatal mortality in 2022." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Infant Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancyjamanetwork.com This cohort study of recorded infant deaths examines infant mortality after the passage of the 2021 ban on early abortions in Texas.

The Spotify algorithm for ads on my account is hilarious - I get ads in Dutch, French, ads for children, and ads for car stuff... I feel like I've beat the system when I get ads that are not for me.

Ahh, Reviewer no. 2 strikes again, this time basically telling us to redo the whole premise of our scoping review to what they think would be more useful to them. Am thinking I will reply with some doi's of reviews that already exist addressing those points. #episky #academicsky #publishorperish

Whilst working in Sierra Leone, a man came to the clinic with his son who had been bitten by a dog that may have been rabid. Turns out there was no post-exposure vaccine anywhere in the country. All the clinic could do was clean the wound... #episky #globalhealth 🛟 🩺

#Rabies is a terrible death, and an unnecessary death. With rapid access to post-exposure vaccine, rabies deaths can be averted. That still isn't happening often enough in the developing world. #Gavi is hoping to help fix it. www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/g...

On the road to eliminate rabies deaths, Gavi announces plan to improve human vaccinationwww.statnews.com Rabies is one of few diseases that can be effectively treated by vaccines after exposure — but many countries lack access to the shots. A new global health effort aims to change that.