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INTRODUCING THE HEALTH HIVE 🐝 🌏 A project designed to empower youth to take an active role in research about their health and wellbeing. 📌 Read more here: intouchpublichealth.net.au/launching-the-… ➡️ Follow us on Instagram: @YouthHealthHive Stephanie Partridge Sydney Health EMCR #SydneyNursingSchool

Our paper, published today in The BMJ, highlights concerning trends in direct-to-consumer testing that pose risks to consumer safety bmj.com/content/387/bm… Patti Shih Tessa Copp Annette Pluddemann David Ransohoff Steven Woloshin

- Home tests with poor accuracy - Hormone tests rebranded as “wellness” assessments heavily influenced by conflicts of interest - Blood-based multi-cancer tests currently marketed and sold in the US without evidence of improved health outcomes

Participants wanted! Are you an editor of a health or medical journal? 🏥🩺⚕️💊 Take part in our interview study on plain language summaries. Sign up link: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7N… Karen Gainey Danielle Muscat

🧵 Top 5 projects for 2024: 1. Heart Health Checks: link.springer.com/article/10.118… 2. Heart Yarning Tool: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 3. PhDs: preventioncentre.org.au/resources/how-… 4. Health literacy editor: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 5. New journal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

3. My 2 PhD students presenting their codesign projects at international conferences, with first Western Sydney Diabetes PhD paper for Sumathy Ravi (ijic.org/articles/10.53…) & first podcast for Melody Taba with Prevention Centre: preventioncentre.org.au/resources/how-…

Recruiting #adolescents for virtual clinical trials? Social media is key! Led by Rebecca Raeside, Instagram was most effective, $3.9/participant. Now to navigate recruitment with social media ban in Aus! Health4Me MRFF-Funded Trial Julie Redfern AM ♡ IAAH pediatrics.jmir.org/2024/1/e62919/

Opportunity to get involved in health research! We’re looking for new members to join the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Consumer Panel (Co-SHeLL) for 2025! If you’re passionate about making health info easier to understand or have ideas on improving health systems, learn more ⬇️

Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds theguardian.com/society/2025/f…

Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Wiser Healthcare Sydney Health Sydney Health EMCR University of Sydney

Finally submitted my PhD after 3.5 years of study! Super grateful to my Sydney Health Literacy Lab supervisory dream team for supporting my research on social media health communication to young people 🥹 #PhDone (more or less 🤫)

🎉 New PhD paper out now!   We co-designed 5 recommendations with young people and health communicators for social media health communication to young people!   Read the full article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 🧵for more ⬇️

“By incorporating a variety of messaging approaches and actively involving young people in content development, public health agencies can better reach and engage young people, including during public health emergencies.” Nice work Melody Taba and team! #publichealth

Calling all researchers! 🚨 I'm guest editing a collection for BMC Pediatrics on 'lifestyle habits and their impact on children and adolescents' health'. If you have upcoming research in this area, please consider submitting! 📚 Please share widely #Pediatrics #AdolescentHealth

We’re conducting a study to assess researchers’ views of large language models to help with mental health research. If you’re a researcher in mental health, please do consider completing this 5-10 min anonymous survey to share your thoughts! researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_1N…

*New Publication* AYAC communication experiences- results of a structured questionnaire. Thank you to all who helped this reach young people Open access Please share doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon…