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Part 2: Rolling reports from #CommunityControl Twitter Festival, on World No Tobacco Day

Melissa Sweet
Friday, May 31, 2019

Tobacco, Indigenous health, Social media and healthcare, Public health and population health, Public health, #CommunityControl Twitter Festival

The #CommunityControl Twitter Festival is spotlighting the work of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in tobacco control. Below is the second in a rolling series of reports from the guest tweeters (read the first one here).

The Festival is sponsored by the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW (AH&MRC) and hosted by Croakey Professional Services. The moderators are Amy McQuire, Dr Tim Senior and Hayley McQuire. Bookmark this link to follow the rolling posts.

The event’s two hashtags were trending nationally before 9.30am.

Celebrating success in tobacco control initiatives in the South Coast region of NSW

Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation

@WamindaSthCoast

Waminda addresses the social determinants of health while providing a center of excellence for women’s health and is a leader in linking culture with education, health and well-being, For more info please contact us http://www.waminda.org.au

Waminda’s Comprehensive Care program is a combination of healthy lifestyle & chronic disease prevention/management strategies delivered through a strength-based, individualised culturally driven framework offering a whole-of-life approach to health & well-being #Unfunded

Our Aboriginal Health Worker being a role model… #exerciseismedicine #cleanair #nosmokes #AHW

Linking Tobacco Control & Culture

• Cancer Institute NSW

@cancerNSW

Watch the videos via Aboriginal Quitline.

@AQuitline

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

VACCHO

@VACCHO_org

International Perspective

IndigenousNCDs

@IndigenousNCDs

This is the second in a series of posts from the Twitter Festival. Bookmark this link to follow the rolling posts.

The Twitter festival is hosted by Croakey Professional Services on behalf of the AH&MRC. We thank the AH&MRC for organising the program.

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Part 2: Rolling reports from #CommunityControl Twitter Festival, on World No Tobacco Day

Celebrating success in tobacco control initiatives in the South Coast region of NSW

Linking Tobacco Control & Culture

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

International Perspective

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