If we can't teach health equity in med schools, where else are we supposed to teach it?

Every health professional has a moral responsibility to address inequities in health

Not shit Sherlock #auspol

Somehow it took all day to update the citations for the resubmission of a review article (with a team meeting in the middle of the day)

This is what science can do 👏

Three European countries have reached ≥90% HPV vaccine uptake in girls—a major step toward preventing cervical cancer and other HPV-related cancers.

When science, policy, and trust align → real impact.

Medical research delivers almost $4 of economic value for every $1 invested, with clinical trials producing even higher returns. The governement has money put aside for this industry already. That money is sitting unspent in the Future Fund while the sector struggles.

Without immediate government support, 10 of Victoria's 14 medical research institutes will be forced to close within 5 years. This would be a devastating outcome for a sector which has contributed greatly to the health and economic prosperity of this country www.theaustralian.com.au/health/ten-v...

In Australia, measles cases have continued to grow most strongly in New South Wales. They blew past last year’s tally for the state about a month ago.

Some sign of the pace slowing lately, but with an 18 day incubation period it is too early to relax.
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It's not only Cefiderocol

Increasing observation of Aztreonam-Avibactam resistance, especially in China

We are losing these drugs before most people even have access to them...😩

#EscmidGlobal2026

What’s driving soaring rates of adult ADHD? - ABC listen Over the past eight years ADHD diagnoses among Australian adults have surged, especially among women. You might be surprised to hear where the ADHD capitals are. Today, Dr Norman Swan on his Four Co...

In this interview Dr Norman Swan dives into some of the points from his ADHD investigation aired on Four Corners last night.
At one point he goes into how many of the authors for the papers cited in guidelines were funded by pharma companies.
Umm, where else is the funding going to come from?!

Call for abstracts now open!
We invite you to submit an abstract for presentation at ACIPC26.
Theme: From Knowledge to Action: Delivering Impact in Infection Prevention & Control.
More information: https://acipcconference.com.au/abstracts/
Call for abstracts close 29 May 2026.

TB, power, and the political economy of neglect The cure exists. The evidence exists. What is missing is the political commitment to treat TB as the development crisis it is.

The cure for TB exists. The will to deploy it universally does not, yet. That gap is not scientific. It is political.

globaldevpod.substack.com/p/tb-power-a...

My takeaway from the pandemic is that people were way more traumatized by the interruption to their lives than by all the death and I don’t think people want to think about that because, man, it’s really uncomfortable!

Line chart showing under-five mortality in Palestine from 1975 to 2024 (deaths per 1,000 live births). The rate falls steadily from 109 in 1975 to 14 in 2022, indicating decades of improvement in child survival. In 2023, the trend reverses sharply, rising to 42, and remains high at 38 in 2024. Earlier years are shown in green to emphasize the long decline, while recent years are highlighted in red to show the sudden increase. Made for #30DayChartChallenge2026 Day 18 prompt: Unicef

#Day18: Unicef @unicef.org
With hospitals bombed, food and medicines in short supply and and limited access to essentials, the war on Palestine has undone decades of progress in child survival.
#30DayChartChallenge #dataviz

Tbh I hate it, gives useless results, and it sucks to find anything Australian. But I like the privacy the browser provides and the search engine is default.

For those that don't know (included me!), Gremubamab binds specifically to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PcrV protein and the Psl exopolysaccharide.

Both are virulence factors used for adhesion and biofilm stability.

Thanks @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social !

#ESCMIDGlobal2026 #IDSky #ClinMicro

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.

I use duckduckgo haha

Selective decontamination (SDD) in ICU patients (~9,300, 26 ICUs) reduced new antibiotic-resistant organisms but did not lower in-hospital mortality vs standard care. #InfectionControl #AMR #ESCMIDGlobal2026

Gilead’s latest announcement on lenacapavir to provide injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to up to one million more people in three years falls far short of what's needed to make a real dent in HIV transmission globally.

Image of a young student in grade school with their head propped in their hand, appearing to have fallen asleep in class. A teacher is standing next to the student, appearing to nudge the student to wake up.

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention span, and social life.

School-aged children with long COVID had more than double the risk of decreased academic performance than those without the condition. 📝

Read more: ow.ly/uLlh50YLc1t

Maybe add some hashtags like microsky or AMR so this gets picked up by the feeds.

I think one of the hardest realisations I’ve had is having to accept just how much some people enjoy seeing other people suffer.

Civil liberties. Senate to approve extraordinary ASIO powers - Michael West New laws to pass Senate and enshrine ASIO's extraordinary powers of interrogation without proper judicial, parliamentary or public review.

Considering the speech went on to say he would install "US-style" social media checks, I don't think this man actually knows what liberal democracy means.
Not that Albo is any better. The extension of the ASIO Amendment Bill takes Australia further away from being a "liberal democracy"
#auspol

Taylor said he wants people from liberal democracies. Does he mean "a system of government based on the belief that freedom and equality between people should be protected, and in which power is limited and is held either by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves"
#auspol

Great to see The Klaxon's investigative series on climate disinformation recognised by the Local & Independent News Association (LINA):

“Journalism like this helps protect the integrity of Australian democracy"

Does anyone (ideally in Australia or Singapore) have recommendations for a Delphi method training course? I have to put something into my annual planning for PD and I'd like to learn this method for some upcoming project ideas
#publichealth #globalhealth #episky #academicsky

got really nauseous reading this excerpt. these are cruel and wicked people, and they must brought to justice for their crimes against humanity.

Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

Should have read the book.