What are the policy makers missing? Panel discussion featuring (clockwise from top left) Caitlin Figueriedo, Franklin Hooper, Georgia Gardner and Corin Boughton

Youth voices reshaping health at the national summit

Marie McInerney
We Public Health
Saturday, January 8, 2022

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Croakey is closed for summer holidays and will resume publishing in the week of 10 January 2022. In the meantime, we are re-publishing some of our top articles from 2021.

This article was first published on Monday, September 27, 2021

Croakey’s rotational Twitter account @WePublicHealth covered the recent Youth Health Forum (YHF) National Summit, ‘’Youth voices shaping health”, convened by the Consumer Health Forum of Australia and its Youth Health Forum.

See below for a selection of tweets on the day from Croakey journalist Marie McInerney, providing a companion piece to this wrap of the event.

Bookmark our ongoing overage of the event for the Croakey Conference News Service here.

What the data tells and what it doesn’t Conversation stations to set the scene

What are policy makers missing?

Building better capacity: codesign and advocacy

Lightning Youth Talks from across Australia

Reflecting on young people as change makers

Shifting the focus from health to wellbeing, globally

Developing the summit’s calls to action

#YHFSummit analytics and participants

Twitter data via Symplur for #YHFSummit from Friday 3 September to Friday 24 September 2021

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