A presentation yesterday on the relationship between media coverage and Indigenous policy-making was timely in the lead-up to this week’s #IHMayDay Twitter day of action for Indigenous healt... Read more
It’s that time of the year: for making lists of media lists. (After the list of lists below, the bottom section of this post covers recent discussions about social media and health). In rece... Read more
Thanks to Froncesca Jackson-Webb, for providing this update of the latest health and medical reading at The Conversation. From scraping by to pizza and pie: how protein price drives obesity... Read more
The Therapeutic Goods Administration faces something of a shake-up if there is effective implementation of the recommendations of a review, released today, that is aimed at improving the age... Read more
If you have read the funding arrangements for Croakey, you will understand that editing this blog is, by necessity, very much a part-time activity for me. I am usually writing and editing ar... Read more
What is the point of health and medical research? Is it to keep researchers in jobs? To boost the economy and increase corporate profits? To add to the prestige and power of universities and... Read more
If you’ve an interest in the relationships between media, healthy societies, public health, the digital revolution and the Gov 2.0 agenda, have I got some reading for you… The Federal Commun... Read more
As Don Perlgut’s previous post on the digital divide illustrates, there are many barriers to realising the full potential of the digital revolution, including lack of capacity amongst those... Read more
As foreshadowed at Croakey last year, the media liaison/issues management contract for the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is up for grabs, and details of the tender document are outl... Read more
At the national rural health conference in Perth this week, I gave two presentations. The first was about the opportunities that are rapidly emerging for under-served groups and issues (like... Read more
