There are both ethical and scientific arguments for people with severe mental illness to be prioritized in vaccine strategies, says Livia De Picker🌻 #EquallyWellAu23

Us elves were lucky enough to see the wonderful Jackie Curtis from Mindgardens Neuroscience Network speak recently at #EquallyWellAu23 Jackie Curtis - can you tell us a bit more about what you'll be talking about at #AUSPC2023 #bethebridge 👂

Great to see so many GCMH members and the Queensland Health team present, participate in panels, and live blog at the Equally Well Symposium #EquallyWellAu23 recently. Donni Johnston Sally plever Victoria Stewart @AmandaJWheeler1 Justin Chapman

Congratulations to the RANZCP Community Collaboration Committee (CCC) and Lived Experience Australia on receiving the achievement award at the #EquallyWellAU23 Symposium for outstanding partnership and collaboration. livedexperienceaustralia.com.au/post/lonelines…

Another conference done! Equally Well Au provided a fantastic platform to talk about the importance of mental AND physical health. I had the opportunity to present a qualitative paper I’ve been writing in this space. #EquallyWellAU23 #Psychology #PhD #conference #research

CATCH UP OR REVISIT THE CONTENT ☑️Presentation replays on Youtube: youtube.com/@equallywellau… ☑️Event Blog thanks to Mental Elf: nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/… ☑️Twitter thread: #EquallyWellAu23 thanks to Mental Elf ☑️Instagram highlights ☑️Equally well news: equallywell.org.au/latest-news/

Equally Well Au Dr Laura Hemming Justin Chapman Russell Roberts Margaret Sinclair voted YES! De Backman-Hoyle Jackie Curtis Dave Peters Terry Slevin Andrew Watkins Public Health Australia Dr Michelle Blanchard We loved taking this fantastic Equally Well Au event #BeyondTheRoom. Thanks again for inviting us along to #EquallyWellAu23 You can find out more about this great work here: equallywell.org.au/equally-well-s… Improving the physical health of people with severe mental illness!

Equally Well Au Dr Laura Hemming Justin Chapman And finally a BIG thank to YOU if you joined in at #EquallyWellAu23 Here are some of our top tweeters: Russell Roberts Margaret Sinclair voted YES! De Backman-Hoyle Jackie Curtis Dave Peters Terry Slevin Andrew Watkins Margaret Sinclair voted YES! Public Health Australia Dr Michelle Blanchard Great work everyone!

Equally Well Au Dr Laura Hemming Thanks to our Elf Correspondent Dr Justin Chapman Justin Chapman who dutifully blogged his way through the whole #EquallyWellAu23 symposium, keeping us up-to-date with everything going on in Sydney, & entertaining us all along the way. Great work Justin! nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/…

Equally Well Au Special thanks to our Elf Coordinator Dr Laura Hemming Dr Laura Hemming who led the #EquallyWellAu23 live tweeting and single-handedly sent 350 tweets across the 3 days. Go rest those sore thumbs Laura!

🌟 #EquallyWellAu23 🌟 BIG thanks to everyone who joined in with the live tweeting, blogging & general hobnobbing at the Equally Well Au 2023 Symposium in Sydney this week. We had a HUGE impact: - 83 people - sent 584 tweets - making 38.5 million hashtag impressions 🧵 THREAD

It’s been great to be part of the Equally Well Symposium and see the response to the Equally Well Healthtalk project. Thank you Chris Maylea and all involved. Healthtalk Australia was co-funded by National Mental Health Commission Mental Health Commission of NSW Victorian Department of Health #EquallyWellAu23

Be sure to follow @EquallyWellAU to keep up to date with what they’re doing, including where and when the 2024 symposium will be held! #EquallyWellAu23

And of course, a ginormous thank you to our #BeyondTheRoom correspondent Justin Chapman for doing such a fantastic job of live blogging #EquallyWellAu23 - you can read his summary of the conference below: nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/…

And that’s a wrap on #EquallyWellAu23 folks! Thank you to all of our wonderful presenters and delegates and to all you tweeps who have been following along at home!

Dave Peters just gave a shoutout to Dr Laura Hemming and Justin Chapman for their tireless efforts to take #EquallyWellAu23 #BeyondTheRoom - I think we may both need a rest from the woodlands after our elf duties of the past few days!

@EquallyWellAU co-chairs John Allan and Dave Peters are providing their closing reflections on #EquallyWellAu23. John Allan is highlighting the diversity of presentations we have heard here.

"The new Australian Wellbeing Budget is right in our wheelhouse" Public Health Australia Equally Well Au #equallywellau23

Terry Slevin's four take-home messages: 1. Focus on building better public health capacity and infrastructure 2. Build a better bridge between public health and mental health 3. Promote and support new entities 4. Become better allies #EquallyWellAu23