Rheumatic Fever (RF) Week is aimed at raising awareness about the harm RF can cause to young children and individuals.

ACCHOs already do 'social prescribing'. Celebrating Indigenous invention/innovation improves the Australian health care system. Recent reflections with Uday Yadav Fiona Cornforth & Ray Lovett from YardhuraWalani. Our Health in Our Hands ❤️💛🖤 RACGP @coalition_peaks Lisa Whop Dr Raglan Maddox

Group A streptococcal colitis: an under‐recognised entity? ow.ly/MknZ50T0N9l

In 2021 an outbreak of acute rheumatic fever was identified in a remote Aboriginal community. This paper shows the value of working with community members to implement household-level, outreach-based public health responses. doi.org/10.1016/j.anzj…

Social prescribing plays a significant role in managing CVD. By incorporating social determinants of health into clinical prediction models and community-based interventions, we can address the root causes of health disparities. Achamyeleh Htet Lin Htun ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Wonderful to be hearing from Office of Australia's Ambassador for Global Health at ANUPopulationHealth today and reflecting on the contribution of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 in supporting our Pacific RHD Program work to tackle rheumatic heart disease. Joseph Kado Krystal Millar Jonathan Carapetis Fiji Rheumatic Heart Disease Programme Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research Cure Kids

#ApplyNow 📢-The Impact Program on Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is now accepting applications for its Masters Research Fellowship. The program aims to nurture emerging research leaders in Uganda to generate high-quality evidence on RHD across the lifespan. See advert 👇 #EndRHD

Our latest #CVD risk paper is out - with interviews showing GPs still faced many of the same barriers to CVD risk assessment guidelines as we documented a decade ago. The new guidelines with an updated risk calculator will address some of these issues: www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2024/sept…

The Lowitja Journal invites experienced authors and reviewers with significant research experience in First Nations health and wellbeing to submit an EOI to join the editorial team as an Associate Editor. Learn more and apply: hubs.li/Q02Pr5hC0

From #StrepA #MaliceInChains to #ChainsOfMisery, I ❤️ this latest piece with outstanding Paed ID physicians & PhD candidates Drs Kim Davis & @YaraAbo2 😊 Well done!@MCRI_for_kids journals.lww.com/co-infectiousd…

Pleased to share our gratitude for TIS National phone interpreters in our piece in MJA InSight today insightplus.mja.com.au/2024/39/celebr…. An essential service and a really special fleeting relationship - with Dr Steph Davis RACGP ANU Media

Fantastic to see our SToP Trial results published in the The Lancet profiled by ABC News today! The Kids Research Institute Australia Asha Bowen Hannah Thomas Nirrumbuk EH&Service @Steph_Enkel Jonathan Carapetis abc.net.au/news/2024-10-0…

Take a look at this year's Listen To My Heart event in Belo Horizonte, Brazil! This is the 3rd annual event, with educational stations about RHD, a platform to share their personal stories and interact with their providers in a relaxed setting: youtu.be/WBf-Jggufgo

The role that interpreters play in health care is complex, difficult and largely unacknowledged. We couldn’t do our job without them. ow.ly/8buI50TGnBo

Join us and Pacific Friends of Global Health as we host Dr Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for an oration & panel discussion on vaccines' lifesaving, community-transforming roles.💉 🗓️ Thursday 7 Nov, 5-7pm 🌆Level 6, Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Kambri at ANU ✍️Register now at bit.ly/GaviANU

WHO lists #StrepA as pathogen for which we urgently need a vaccine. We are working on a universal glyco-conjugate vaccine together with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and @GIB - thanks to funding from The RIGHT Foundation & Open Philanthropy

It's here! My Churchill Fellowship report on my visit to Deep End GPs is published! You can download it from here churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/tim-sen… Of course you should read it - it's not dull - but if you want a quick spoiler, here are my recommendations - a brief thread...