TEDxDarwin – Kishan Kariippanon – Bringing “the Egypt” to Indigenous Youth...
TweetJust how bad are we in promoting good health to Indigenous youth. My mate Kishan Kariippanon who puts all his energy into what he does says it needs a serious rethink. “Social media is becoming a...
View ArticleRecent Reading
TweetHere’s some (i.e: when I remember to note them) of the articles I thought might be of interest I have been reading (also viewing or listening) recently that haven’t made it to the blog. I hope you...
View ArticleInside the World’s Most Biosecure Laboratory – the CSIRO’s Australian Animal...
TweetThere is increasing concern about the lack of antibiotics in the research pipeline with more “superbugs” – resistant to many antibiotics – being discovered and many bacteria and viruses jumping...
View ArticleAustralia’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) Initiative
TweetWhere is Australia’s transition to the PCEHR up to? Here’s a presentation from Andrew Howard, head of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record, NEHTA, given on 25th November 2011...
View ArticleBen Goldacre: Battling Bad Science
TweetA great 15 minute presentation highlighting ways in which evidence can be hidden, data distorted and trials designed to give the “right” answers to assist with the marketing of a drug....
View ArticleDr Chris Sarra on positive strategies to improve school attendance rather...
TweetRather than cut parents’ welfare payments when their kids don’t attend school how about adopting some strategies that work and also improve community relationships with the school. I have seen...
View ArticleAIDS. Prevention is the only cure we’ve got
TweetThis TV ad from the Australian Aids Campaign in 1987 was one of the strategies to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS. While doubts remain as to whether it changed behaviour it certainly increased...
View ArticleLearn CPR from Vinnie Jones while listening to Stayin’ alive
TweetJust remember in Australia you call 000 or 112 from a digital mobile phone
View ArticleThe Strange Power of the Placebo Effect
TweetWhen I first started pharmacy there would be the little old lady who would come in for that special pick-me-up we made specially which would be perhaps an aspirin crushed up in some wonderful...
View ArticleKungkaku Yungupalaku Healthy Relationships Project – a Improving Sexual...
TweetThese stories were developed and mostly filmed, animated by young people in Warburton and Warakurna. They have identified ways of health seeking, appropriate services, supporting each other,...
View ArticleWorld Meningitis Day
TweetI’m a bit late with this as it occurred on 24th April. However their video “Meningitis: Two Lives, Two Different Outcomes” may be of interest as it explores the disease, symptoms and treatments...
View ArticleThe end of the travelling school
TweetThe Queensland Government has funded the Queensland School for Travelling Show Children (QSTSC) that have moved around Australia with the carnivals educating the kids of carnival workers through...
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Sydney Pharmacy Indigenous Camp
TweetIf you are an Indigenous student in Year 10 or 11 and unsure of what you would like to study at university then this might be worth a look. The University of Sydney is running a pharmacy ‘camp”...
View ArticleGo to school – Dustup
Tweet Education is the only thing that will allow you to do whatever you want – Daisy Ward The Ngaanyatjarra Lands Schools annual Desert Dustup is finished for another year. The Indigenous Hip Hop...
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Can Indigenous education afford to wait for a real response to Gonski?
TweetIn my view Indigenous education cannot wait for Gonski. This article by Marie Brennan, Victoria University In all the discussion, media releases, press conferences and TV coverage of this week’s...
View ArticleAboriginal Literacy Foundation
TweetLiteracy is one of my passions. Working in remote Aboriginal Australia improving literacy is essential to fully understand discussions – which are mainly in English – with health staff. The...
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Medicines in the Bush workshop
Tweet The 12th Rural Health Conference is on in Adelaide from April 7th-10th. I’ll be going and if you have an interest in rural health I hope you are as well. There are a number of pre-conference...
View ArticleThe Travelling School Reborn
TweetOne year and one day ago I wrote on the end of the travelling school. A school that travelled with the carnival families to teach their children. Today on Twitter Kerry Blades tweeted: These are...
View ArticleFeedback on the draft Clinical Care Standard for Stroke
TweetThe Australian on Safety and Quality in Healthcare has released a draft document “Clinical Care Standard of Stroke” This is available for comment until the 23rd of May. The goal of the Clinical...
View ArticleEbola Advice for Clinicians by the Australian Health Protection Principal...
TweetThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa is finally becoming noticed by western nations months after it should have been. Our health department are putting out plans and guidelines in case infected...
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