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Isabel Hanson
@aussieisabel.bsky.social
NIHR DPhil at Oxford 📚 Flying GP in Aus ✈️ Youth mental health 🧠❤️‍🩹 She/her. Aussie abroad 🦘 #medsky
Cream tea in the snow in front of the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford

My British transformation is complete 🦘❄️🫖🇬🇧
November 19, 2024 at 12:08 PM
🤳 Is social media causing youth self-harm—or just an easy scapegoat?

This balanced article from the MJA breaks down the weak evidence, moral panic, & addresses real harm risks for young people.

It offers sensible health and policy recommendations (see pic) 📋

www.mja.com.au/journal/2024...
November 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM
AI in Primary Care by Dr Jessica Morley (Oxford/LSHTM webinar):

😲 Only 2% of AI algorithms move from lab to frontline (GP&hospitals)
📊 Statistical accuracy ≠ clinical efficacy
❓ The key question for any AI in healthcare project: WHY?

Benefit must be the metric, with evaluation cycles to prove it
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
AI in Primary Care by Dr Alexander d’Elia (Oxford/LSHTM webinar)

Map of AI equity in healthcare:
🛑 Health equity impacts are varied & contextual
💸 AI hype can divert funding, pushing out effective human interventions
⚠️ Poor implementation & privatisation risks ⬆️ system inequities
November 13, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Fantastic talk by @bprainsack.bsky.social on Personalised and Precision medicine in the digital era

We do we need to do?

1. Consider all faces of power (and their implications)
2. A political ethics
3. Stronger public value orientation
November 12, 2024 at 2:41 PM
The moment the sun comes out in Oxford…

Drop everything. Go outside 🏃‍♀️☀️
November 12, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Commercial Determinants of Youth Mental Health talk @woncaeurope2024

🧠 Commercial factors impact youth mental health

📖 Narrative cases ground global health in real stories

👩‍⚕️Primary care perspectives are essential for public health & policy 🏥✨
September 27, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Great talk from Dr Matt Baines on the diversification of the primary care team.

Work load did not decrease for GPs.

Some roles were a helpful complement (pharmacist, paramedics)

GP trainees felt totally unprepared to supervise other professionals!
September 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Prof Susan Smith at WONCA Europe 2024 revisiting Hart’s inverse care law (access & need are inversely correlated)

and importantly…

how exposure to market forces makes it worse!

Accessible primary healthcare is key in tackling health & social inequity.
September 26, 2024 at 11:25 AM