ICYMI: a column from the Croakey team

ICYMI…catch up on climate, COVID, monkeypox, upcoming events and the latest news

Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Climate emergency, COVID-19, ICYMI, Tobacco, Indigenous health, HIV/AIDS, Infectious diseases, Mpox, Global health, Health regulation, Human rights

Welcome to the second edition of a new column at Croakey – for those who don’t have time or inclination for Twitter-scrolling.

This week, we range across global health, COVID, monkey pox, climate action and human rights developments. Also featured are snaps from the recent AIATSIS Summit, the Indigenous Suicide Prevention Forum, CrazySocks4DocsDay and more.

Climate matters

Read the article on Hesta here.

COVID update

See this Twitter thread by Professor Kathy Eagar, which generated a lot of discussion. Read the article in Global Health BMJ here.

In the news: monkeypox

Read the article in Science here. Read Kai’s Twitter thread on monkey pox here.

Global health

#AusPol

Controversies

Human rights

Events

Coming up

Media bites

The articles below were recommended by many.

Read the New Daily article here. Read Andrew Podger’s article here.

Read the Crikey article here.

Appointments

Shout outs

See you next week…

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Former MP

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public health journalist and Croakey founder

Croakey Health Media is an outstanding service and team. They covered our 2023 Planetary Health Equity Hothouse Policy Symposium, generating incredible communication about complex issues in easily digestible ways and with massive reach. We are incredibly lucky to have Croakey Health Media – access to reliable, quality public interest journalism is vital for democracy. I would highly recommend this service and team.

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Director, Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, ANU – #HothouseSymposium (2023)

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Director, Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, ANU

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Emeritus Professor Stephen Leeder

The University of Sydney

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Flinders University

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Curtin University

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Charles Maskell-Knight PSM

A senior public servant in the Commonwealth Department of Health for over 25 years before retiring in 2021. He worked as a senior adviser to the Aged Care Royal Commission in 2019-20.

ICYMI…catch up on climate, COVID, monkeypox, upcoming events and the latest news

Climate matters

COVID update

In the news: monkeypox

Global health

#AusPol

Controversies

Human rights

Events

Coming up

Media bites

Appointments

Shout outs

See you next week…

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