Catch up with useful news and sources on the new coronavirus
Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 18 January 2021. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2020. This article was fi... Read more
Budget2020Health – insights from Twitter
As humanity faces existential threats of the climate crisis and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention growing inequality, how does the Morrison Government’s budget stack up for hea... Read more
#HealthReImagined snapshot: a Twitter takeaway on food, work, cities, equity and prevention
Over the past five weeks or so, Croakey’s rotated, curated Twitter account, @WePublicHealth, has been shared among participants, viewers and organisers of VicHealth’s #HealthReImagined serie... Read more
Catch up with useful news and sources on the new coronavirus
The pace of news and developments with the novel coronavirus – #2019nCoV – is so rapid that at this stage, one of the best services we can provide is to connect our readers with useful sourc... Read more
On People’s Health Day, tune into this #Health4All Twitter Storm
This Saturday (7 April) is World Health Day, and the World Health Organization has designated the theme Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) has decla... Read more
Unpacking the collective impact of @WePublicHealth: check out the latest news
In 2017, guest tweeters for the rotated curated Twitter account @WePublicHealth covered international conferences on public health, quality and safety in healthcare, stillbirth, tobacco cont... Read more
If brevity be the soul of wit, longevity lies in the rise of Twitter. So why are many academics wary? In an era of fragmenting audiences, proliferation of new sources of news and views and a... Read more
How @WePublicHealth packed a punch in 2016
When our rotated curated Twitter account – @WePublicHealth – launched in August 2013 (borrowing from the successful model of @IndigenousX), it was billed as a new model for citizen jou... Read more
Calling for expressions of interest for #IHMayDay17 – with a focus on “Representation”
Please make a note in your diaries – the fourth annual Indigenous Health May Day Twitter festival will be held on Wednesday, May 17. You can track the discussions and news at #IHMayDay17. Th... Read more
A final, multi-media wrap of LowitjaConf2016 – plus Wall of Selfies
Our final post from the Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2016, held recently in Melbourne, compiles the video and broadcast interviews, and reports... Read more