kids with long covid are losing huge chunks of their childhood to a devastating illness few people take seriously. but in too many cases doctors, teachers—the very people who should be helping them—are shrugging their shoulders, blaming them, prescribing potentially harmful

📢 Burnet Institute HEAL long COVID is looking for an enthusiastic Research Coordinator to support a great multidisciplinary team lead by Suman Majumdar Dr Michelle Scoullar (she/her) &Emma Tippett in developing an adaptive clinical trials platform. See info 👇 seek.com.au/job/76637820?t… #LongCovid

This is how you do it!

Burnet received A$274K from the Australian Government’s MRFF for the HEAL project, to design a clinical trial for novel #longCOVID therapies — collaborating with diverse communities to find effective treatments. Read more: burnet.edu.au/knowledge-and-… Suman Majumdar Dr Michelle Scoullar (she/her)

Incredible resource for us all. A big thankyou Karen Cutter and The Mortality Working Group.

"It's really important that we don't let this lack of a diagnostic marker get in the way of diagnosing people with long COVID, because we can do it now." ⁦Dr Michelle Scoullar (she/her)⁩ ⁦Burnet Institute⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1…

New infographic on #Mpox

There is an ongoing outbreak of mpox in Victoria and other Australian jurisdictions caused by Clade IIb of the virus.   In Victoria, mpox vaccination is currently available for eligible at-risk groups.   More info on vaccines and symptoms: go.vic.gov.au/3MfHhyc 🧵1/3

When this happens to women it gets dismissed as ‘cultural’. When this happens to men…sorry…what am I talking about? This never happens to men.

When I became Education Minister 12 months ago, little did I know I’d be stepping into a half-century-long policy debate about how we teach our kids the basics of reading. The reading wars are not quite over, but they should be. My op-ed in today’s The Australian. #SpringSt

Long ϹΟVΙD appears to be driven by ‘long infection’. Here’s what the science says canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/11/28/lon… Prof Brendan Crabb Dr Gabriela Khoury Dr Michelle Scoullar (she/her)

Love this from ⁦Prof Brendan Crabb⁩ ⁦Dr Michelle Scoullar (she/her)⁩ et.al. “increased awareness of the biomedical basis of #longCOVID should prompt clinicians to take patients more seriously.” insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/48/long-c…

Congrats to James B on being awarded NHMRC e-ASIA 2024 Joint Research Program (JRP) grant. The grant will help accelerate vaccine development for P. Vivax malaria, a type of malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax. shorturl.at/7NgOt 👏

long covid isn't just stopping people from working, exercising, socialising, living independently. it's also snuffing out patients' dreams of having children, and complicating pregnancy for those who are able to conceive abc.net.au/news/2024-12-2…

I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵