📢 Don't miss this exclusive evening with Anders Nordström a prominent figure in global health, with extensive experience as a former Swedish Ambassador for Global Health!!

📅 Friday, April 26
⏰ 5:30 - 7pm AEST
📍 Doherty Auditorium

Register 👉 lnkd.in/guZWRscg

BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders drafts proposal for Long Covid Moonshot.

The proposal earmarks $10B in Long Covid research funding over the next decade.

Cosmos article/retraction on the “zero deaths” debacle.

cosmosmagazine.com/news/deaths-de…

Pemivibart, a long-acting antispike monoclonal antibody, has received emergency use authorization for preventing #COVID19 in high-risk patients. jwat.ch/3Ud7FgU

#IDTwitter Dan Kaul, MD

The vibrant murals designed by Daru Island's school students now decorate the SWEEP-TB screening truck in PNG — a symbol of community engagement and commitment to #EndTB .
Together, we're painting a brighter future free from #TB ! #WorldTBDay2024

More: burnet.edu.au/knowledge-and-…

Papua New Guinea has one of the highest rates of #tuberculosis transmission in the world, and Daru is at the epicentre.

Meet the woman who leads a team of counsellors ensuring patients feel empowered and supported during the course of their treatment.

burnet.edu.au/knowledge-and-…

Today is World Health Day. Everyone has the right to basic health services, including clean indoor air. We are advancing actions to improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of airborne diseases #WorldHealthDay #globalhealth #HealthForAll #CleanIndoorAir

A person in #Texas caught #BirdFlu after mixing with dairy cattle. Should we be worried? Read our analysis of the #H5N1 #influenza situation: theconversation.com/a-person-in-te… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Replacing the 2+ year old hepa in the kids bedroom. New filter at left in both images; Old filter pre-external dust removal (left image; we do this every few months) & after dust removal (right image).

As this shows, indoor air is not clean unless you make it so, often…

Exceptional work. A vital blueprint for the future. Indoor Air Quality standards are a must. To prevent transmission of infectious diseases. To mitigate OHS and public liability risks. To ensure buildings are safe. And to protect the health of users of buildings.

ICYMI: last week we assembled an expert panel to discuss TB eradication at Parliament House 💊💉💪

Jamie Triccas (USyd), Simone Barry (SA Health)and Khai Lin Huang (Burnet Institute), moderated by Dr Lucas de Toca

Listen here: results.org.au/world-tb-day

Prof Brendan Crabb World Health Organization (WHO) CERN Mandating indoor air quality for public buildings | science.org

Source: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

1/ New paper in Science Magazine: 'Mandating Indoor Air Quality for Public Buildings'

Explaining current status of indoor air quality standards (in short: bad or non-existent), the huge health benefits that would arise from them & proposing a path forward
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today, a group of international experts led by Prof Lidia Morawska FAA (QUT) has presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in Science Magazine. How can indoor air quality standards be monitored and enforced? Read: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In reference to the gross inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said 'we felt like we were beggars'. It was a 'never-again' clarion call if ever their was one. This video demonstrates an impressive commitment of countries & regions…

NEW: World Health Organization now acknowledges #CovidIsAirborne & presents a model to quantify risk in public, residential, & #publichealth settings. Hope our govts, schools, hospitals,
& #MedTwitter read & improve indoor air quality. /1

#COVID19

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CDC releases ventilation guidance for curbing indoor respiratory virus spread

Advice includes optimizing HVAC systems and other steps to improve air quality and circulation.

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Photo: Adam Winsor/Flickr cc

Fantastic to host Helen Clark at the first Parliamentary Friends of Global Health briefing for 2024. Quizzed on everything from preventing the next pandemic, to how 🇦🇺 can work to improve the health of many in the region. Great to see strong interest from MPs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 and sector!

Congratulations Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá on leading one of the most provocative and original journals of our times, for your courage in challenging powerful interests so inimical to health, and for helping to redefine the very meaning of global health itself. You are not going away.

⏰🚨 Please do not miss out on the opportunity to join the Tuberculosis Journal Club initiative led by the Burnet Institute and supported by ACTnet.

Visit our website to find out more: actnet.org.au