🦠In the six months after COVID-19 infection, children have a higher risk of developing rare and serious heart inflammation, but the COVID vaccine does not have the same effect, according to the largest study of its kind, looking at the health records of almost all UK children (nearly 14 million). 👧🧒

Experts from #MonashUni, #BurnetInstitute #UQ #UNSW, and #KirbyInstitute respond to the report.

https://buff.ly/LzpVjij

#science #research #STEM #facts #knowledge #COVID19

@mattotcha

Writers are from #BurnetInstitute and #KirbyInstitute.

"At a societal and an individual level we need to re-think the risks of accepting wave after wave of infection."

Thinking this is a non-offensive way for them to be saying, "Vax and Relax was always bullshit. #MaskUp and contact your local members of parliament."

#Covid #JN11 #Australia

I’m speaking at the #KirbyInstitute seminar next Tuesday on Take Blaktion and strengths-based approaches to #Aboriginal #SexualHealth. This is a repeat of a keynote I delivered at the Joint HIV and Sexual Health conference that was very well received. Please do dial in if you are interested and available! https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/event/heather-mccormack-laugh-shame-away-take-blaktion
Heather McCormack - Laugh the shame away: Take Blaktion and strengths-based approaches to Aboriginal sexual health

In this seminar, Heather McCormack uses Take Blaktion as a case study to demonstrate strengths-based approaches and advocate for a different way of working in Aboriginal sexual health.

Kirby Institute

Still feeling this place out, but I thought an #introduction was due

✔️ Live and work in #Sydney #Australia. Currently managing #SexualHealth programs in the public service and completing a #PhD through #UNSW #KirbyInstitute

✔️ My work:
#HealthPromotion
#Communications
#Youth
#LGBT
#MSM
#PublicHealth
#HealthServices
#DigitalHealth
#HIV
#STI

✔️ My research:
#RoutineCare
#PrimaryCare
#HealthLiteracy
#HealthEquity
#FirstNations
#Indigenous
#Aboriginal
#DriedBloodSpot #DBS
#syphilis
#hepatitis