Huge thanks to my Catalyst team, who supported our pitch for a new Heart Health Literacy Tool along with 18 other ideas at this inspiring Heart Foundation event. Danielle Muscat & @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social are our health literacy gurus; @julieayre.bsky.social & Adam Dunn are our AI guides.

Excited to be in Melbourne on a beautiful day to pitch our idea for the Heart Foundation Catalyst scheme! The Heart Health Literacy Tool will combine the careful principles behind our SHeLL Editor with the speed of AI, to create patient friendly text, images, videos & translations in minutes.

After celebrating @melodytaba.bsky.social's recent PhD submission with @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social, we're thrilled to announce her main paper has been published! She codesigned a framework for better social media health communication with young people: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

More @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social research from the @publichealthaus.bsky.social #Screening2025 conference, with a focus on psychosocial support to enable informed decision making about breast and lung cancer screening @jenna-smith.bsky.social @brookenickel.bsky.social @kmcfadden.bsky.social

Day 1 of #Screening2025 closes with reflections from community & patient perspectives, including GP @rosemarywyber.bsky.social highlighting the importance of shared decision making with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities & holistic discussions over time. @publichealthaus.bsky.social

Garry Jennings makes the case for a targeted (as opposed to population) risk screening program in clinical settings for CVD prevention - find out more at my 1.30 concurrent session presentation on the first day of the #Screening2025 conference @publichealthaus.bsky.social

#Screening2025 Next we hear about de-implementing screening where risk reduces (e.g. via HPV vaccination), and more on balancing benefits vs different types of harm (e.g. overdiagnosis, carbon emissions) from @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social epidemiologist @katyjlbell.bsky.social

Great opening session for @publichealthaus.bsky.social #Screening2025. Emphasis on criteria to ensure benefits outweigh harms, and interesting examples of biased industry/media reporting of emerging screening tests. Excited to present a Heart Foundation targeted #CVD risk screening trial at 1.30!

🧵 Top 5 projects for 2024:
1. Heart Health Checks: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2. Heart Yarning Tool: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
3. PhDs: preventioncentre.org.au/resources/ho...
4. Health literacy editor: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
5. New journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Sydney Health Literacy Lab is coming to Bluesky soon! This is about half of us, working across a huge range of health topics. We're passionate about #healthcommunication that meets #healthliteracy needs to improve equity, using behavioural & social science methods with a codesign approach.

Today I'm at the Leeder (formerly Menzies) Centre for Health Policy, Economics & Data HDR showcase, with my amazing PhD students Sumathy Ravi & @melodytaba.bsky.social! They codesigned solutions to support diabetes patients & gov health communication with young people, at the University of Sydney