Announcing the ACTnet TB Nursing & Public Health Webinar, featuring three case discussions from TB management across Australia 🗓️ Wed Oct 11, 2023 ⏰12 noon - 1:30 PM AEST (Syd/Melb time, GMT +10:00) RSVP at: events.humanitix.com/tbnursing

Our review on melioidosis is out - thanks ++ to the amazing team Susanna Dunachie Joost Wiersinga Direk Limmathurotsakul & Bart Currie. So much more work to be done!

21 out of 22 remote polling booths in NT First Nations communities resoundingly wrote “yes”. The “no” vote in the major non-Indigenous centres of Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs trumped that in the NT’s final count. We sure have some reckoning to do. pollbludger.net/fed2023ref/Res…

“A great majority of Indigenous people support constitutional recognition through a Voice to Parliament,” writes Thomas Mayo.  “We seek self-determination over who speaks for us. Claims otherwise are an incontrovertible lie.” satpa.pe/gfgAsBk

Thrilled to share our first issue of First Nations Health and Wellbeing The Lowitja Journal. 🙏to all the authors, reviewers and editors who have brought this dream to life. Bring on the Indigenous Rennaissance! youtube.com/watch?v=YkBB3p… Lowitja Institute Bronwyn Fredericks @WWeno7

Some personal reflections on the night before returning home. Part of me will remain forever behind.

It’s been 4 months since the Voice was defeated. With Jan 26 upon us, in an essay for Esquire, Thomas Mayo writes about why a greater familiarity & understanding between Indigenous & non-Indigenous peoples is key to ending entrenched inequalities #auspol > loom.ly/JQlP9u4

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

Our concise melioidosis review is out. To learn more, please join us in sunny Darwin for the World Melioidosis Congress in October. Registrations & abstracts: wmc2024.org.au

Volume 48 is now online! This issue includes new research on chronic hepatitis B care, non-small cell lung cancer and healthcare associated infection. Read the full volume here: thelancet.com/issue/S2666-60…

★ Just published: #Communicable podcast episode “Melioidosis goes global” Joshua Davis & Angela welcome Ella Meumann & Bart Currie for an update on #melioidosis Listen: ow.ly/vHLM50ST2nr Read: #CMIComms concise review ow.ly/255X50SR8yG #IDtwitter #idxtwitter

Want to select multi-SNP markers for your malaria research? Our new study in Nature Communications provides novel tools for marker selection and evaluation - take a look! nature.com/articles/s4146… Sasha Siegel MalariaGEN Julian Rayner Ric Price ACREME

What a week!

We are advertising for a Network Supervising Scientist in Genomics at Territory Pathology (Darwin, Australia) - please get in touch if you are interested in this exciting role! jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetail…

In March 2025 I’m running 22km through the takayna wilderness in northwest Tasmania - a fundraising event for the Bob Brown Foundation, to protect the natural environment. Any support much appreciated! takaynatrail2025.raiselysite.com/ella-meumann

🧵1/ We are excited to share our Nature Communications piece where we explore methods for #onehealth genomic epidemiology and identify links between humans, animals, wildlife, food and the environment. Check it out here - rdcu.be/d5oTo. Doherty Institute Australian Institute for Microbiology & Infection

Are you a health practitioner working in northern Australia? The Tropical Health Orientation Manual (THOM) 2025 provides best practice advice for diagnosis, identification & treatment of conditions specific to the tropical north. Download: tinyurl.com/ahw6jyk8

NEW STUDY | Researchers have led the largest-ever study of people living with a unique strain of chronic hepatitis B (C4 Hep B), uncovering significant impacts on liver health. Learn more about these findings and the work of the Hep B PAST Plus program: menzies.edu.au/page/News_and_…

Commentary: #Melioidosis in Asia-Pacific Nations: Expanding Boundaries but Unknowns Remain onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

Curtain Raiser Announcement 4th South Asian Melioidosis Congress, Guwahati, Assam Youtube link: youtu.be/kaeBEL0c89M?si…