PHAA SA Branch, AGM and Careers Night, 5:30pm Tues 24 June. Guest speakers Dr Stefania Verlado and Kristen Foley. Tickets $15-35. Jarmer's Kitchen, 18 Park Tce, Bowden.

PHAA SA Branch members, here's a chance to boost your networking opportunities.

The Annual General Meeting is also a Careers Night.

Guest speakers Dr Stefanie Verlado & Kristen Foley on career pathways and opportunities.

Starts 5:30pm Tues 24 June
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Our award application portal is now open! Please go to www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for details on applying for each award.

When you're ready to apply, please go to forms.gle/QL2icC8giNLo...

We look forward to receiving your award applications by April 30!

#SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth

New paper shows relationship between skipping #breakfast & poorer academic achievement for school aged students. 🍎📚🍳

Highlights the importance of school breakfast clubs to ensure access to food for improvements in children’s learning. #episky #publichealth

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Life course epidemiology and public health Life course epidemiology aims to study the effect of exposures on health outcomes across the life course from a social, behavioural, and biological perspective. In this Review, we describe how life co...

A new review in The Lancet PH on the field of life course epidemiology. Covers: advances, challenges, theory, methods & policy implications.
Congrats to the authors (Wagner et al) on this excellent paper that should become mandatory reading in the field 👏🏼 #episky

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Modeling the Texas measles outbreak An explainer

An excellent explainer for anyone wanting to understand #infectiousdisease models better 👇🏼 #episky

“Modeling the Texas measles outbreak” from @epiellie.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

An excellent commentary Naomi 👏🏼 such important considerations and ideas for moving the field forward.

Ooh! This looks really good. #EpiSky

E is for Epi: coming soon! How to make sense of scientific research and all things public health!

There is a lot of bad public health information out there and it's only getting worse.

So I'm starting a newsletter to help you distinguish the bad from the good.

E is for Epi: coming soon!

Link: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Exciting Opportunity Alert! ANU NCIG seeks a researcher in social sciences, science communication, health literacy or education. Join our Academic Level A role ($85k-$107k pa, hybrid work in Canberra/Adelaide). Boost Indigenous health outcome. Apply by 22 Mar 2025 via jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Let’s be completely clear… rejecting a “woke” agenda, dismantling DEI initiatives & telling people to “get over” intergenerational trauma inflicted by governments is only to further a white (usually male) agenda.

This is not the world we want our children growing up in.

Very sick of politicians throwing around the term “woke” as if it’s an extreme negative agenda… when at its core it’s about giving all humans the respect, kindness & dignity they deserve, when for generations many people have not been afforded that by those in power.

We're still working on expanding this list, but here is Version 1 of our Social Epidemiology Starter Pack—just in time for the holidays! Please like & repost! And Happy Holidays & Happy New Year! ☃️🫒🥂🎉

#SocialEpiSky
#EpiSky😷
#PublicHealth 🛟

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Smoke clouds over a black background. Text reads: "Up in smoke. The unravelling of world-leading policy changes in Smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand" "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health"

Aotearoa NZ set a global precedent in 2022 by moving to implement #tobacco endgame measures. These have since been repealed.

This new commentary calls for "a return to evidence to ensure the continued improvement of public health and reduction of avoidable inequities."
doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🛟

#EpiSky! As the Education Co-Chair of SER SPC, we are planning a career development event in March 2025, focusing on job search! Speakers are wanted with diverse backgrounds who were recently newly hired as faculty, in industries, or are experienced in recruitment. Recommendations? Call the names!

A short course through Bristol University. It’s all online but live during UK Timezone 😊

Spending the week learning all about #geneticepi with @uob-ieu.bsky.social 🧬👩🏻‍💻
Day 2 and already such an interesting & interactive course! 👏🏼👏🏼

South Australia prioritises preventive health

South Australia is prioritising #publichealth & #prevention by officially passing the Preventive Health SA Bill & establishing a new independent agency 👏🏼👏🏼

Congrats to the SA Gov & all the public health advocates who have made this possible.

Find out more 👇🏼
ahj.com.au/new-content/...

I would second Causal Inference: What If by Robins & Hernan - an excellent resource 👏🏼👏🏼

Yeah the longest one has actually been quite communicative and apologetic but they’ve struggled to find reviewers 😔

My new favourite kind of thread 😂

I’ve just signed up and really looking forward to it! 😊

Last week I was awarded the PhD research excellence award at the South Australian Science & Innovation Awards. I was shocked and honoured and couldn’t think of a better way to close out the #PhD chapter of my life. Thankful to so many people who supported me on this journey! 🥳 #SAScienceAwards

New York Times headline about RFK Jr potentially being tapped to run the Department of Health and Human Services

This is your periodic reminder that the greatest increases in life expectancy over the past 125 years have come through public health innovations that this man wants to roll back.

Leaky Clinical Prediction Models

The "Leaky prognostic model adoption pipeline" by @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social and colleagues is probably one of my most used figures when discussing building useful clinical prediction models. See the full paper here: publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/... #MLSky #stats #rstats #statistics

I think I have just found my new favourite paper 👏🏼 👏🏼

Thanks for sharing @episconroy.bsky.social & for your reviewer comments (yes I even read the review comments because the paper was that good)! #episky #biology

Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths" Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...

I have some refs below that I use as a reviewer, responding to reviewers, and as a stat methods collaborator. This information is not unique, many statisticians have posted similar lists (such as Andrew Althouse discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...) but hopefully can still be helpful. 1/n

Thank you this is very helpful!

Very excited to connect with more epidemiologists from around the world 😊 Introduce yourself in the thread below ⬇️

Hi #episky 😊 I’m a postdoc public health researcher & social epidemiologist from Australia. I focus on children’s health & development, but more recently moved into chronic disease, Indigenous health & social determinants.
In my spare time you’ll find me hanging out w/ my two pugs 🐶🐶

Such a great day at the South Australian Population Health Conference! Always so inspiring hearing about the local #publichealth efforts to improve the health & wellbeing of our community.
@publichealthaus.bsky.social