Important message from UK Health Security Agency. Recognising the symptoms of possible measles is first step to prevent spread to others. Lots of us have never seen a measles rash, this short video explains what to look for.

Are you passionate about improving health services for consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds? If so, we are looking for you to complete this short consensus survey mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9… Australian Institute of Health Innovation Reema Harrison, PhD Bronwyn Newman

Our paper highlights that strategies implemented to support communication with ethnic minority patients during formal tasks require expansion to less formal and everyday care tasks to co-create safer cancer care with them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…

The Australian experience in establishing a network of social researchers and practitioners in immunisation. Proud to have started COSSI with Kerrie Wiley supported by @ncirs + Dr Sami Carlson. Grew under🌟leadership of Prof Margie Danchin A/Prof Holly Seale A/Prof Katie Attwell Jessica Kaufman

Supporting patients & their carers to participate in IPC activities: The views of patients family members & hospital staff from Bangladesh Indonesia & South Korea American Journal of Infection Control ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-… Great paper from A/Prof Holly Seale & colleagues on cultural context, IPC & empowerment

Very lucky to back in Vietnam as part of the Global Pertussis Initiative meeting! Hearing updates about coverage and vaccine program strategies from across South-East Asia #Vaccine

Teleconferences done for the evening… was looking forward to heading to bed at midnight only to find one of the kids has snuck in and taken my place! Off to single bed and dinosaur doona! This is the culprit!!!

It has been a busy couple of weeks with teaching and marking, but I can't believe that I missed spotting that the new Australia CDC has a logo!

Out in the field running co-design workshops focused on antimicrobial stewardship in rural Bangladesh. Needed to do a little multitasking for todays community session! Lots of great ideas about reducing inappropriate antimicrobial use. UNSW Medicine & Health

Back to my old stomping ground- talking about #influenza vaccination! Lots of movement is needed in vaccine uptake across the risk groups to get back to pre-COVID levels. UNSW Medicine & Health abc.net.au/listen/program…

The things you come across on the ‘local mum’ social media pages.. someone trying to offload extra packs of Zithromax that were preemptively bought while waiting for the tests to return. Missed opportunity to promote delayed prescribing.

Expanding the places people can get a flu vaccine could help, explains A/Prof Holly Seale from UNSW. theconversation.com/too-many-austr…

Community pharmacists support optimal antimicrobial use, but how can this better supported? Sharing new research paper from UNSW Medicine & Health Kathryn Lim, which explored this question through a modified Delphi study with global pharmacy sector. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fantastic to be able to catch up with the Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation family! Our annual workshop is underway with a focus on the use of technology in vaccine social science! Kicking us off A/Prof Katie Attwell as our current Chair! Find out more via ncirs.org.au/COSSI

What a way to start a conference… the opening session focused on Women in Global Security. Dr Ayoade Alakija, Chair, FIND “70% of health staff are women but they don’t have the microphone” interested to see what comes next at #GHS2024

Are you passionate about enhancing participation of CALD consumers in consumer engagement activities? We are looking for eligible consumers, consumer representatives, staff and academics to fill in a 5-10 minute survey - url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/DEMNCP7L1NfK… Reema Harrison, PhD Australian Institute of Health Innovation