Vicky Sullivan
@vics-echidna.bsky.social
PhD candidate w. University of Queensland, SPH. Researching nature-based physical activity for cardiovascular and planetary health 🌳😍 Nature Prescription, healthy settings, IUHPE Health Promotion Practitioner 💪🐦 🐷🐳🐮🐟🦔 Working with @uqcchw.bsky.social
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Our #Springfield In Step w. Nature group walked for the #Mater ChicksInPink 5k My Way this week, after the main event was cancelled due to torrential rain. Lovely group, beautiful park, good chat, birds, flowers, and always coffee ☕️ #NatureMatters #MoveMore💪 @uqcchw.bsky.social #HeartFoundation 💓
Wonderful morning at #RobelleDomain @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social in the beautiful park 🌲 So many winter blooms and frisky brush turkeys 🦃 Fabulous event crew as usual 💞 #loveparkrun #naturelover 🌸🦜 #Springfield 🌇
June 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Wonderful morning at #RobelleDomain @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social in the beautiful park 🌲 So many winter blooms and frisky brush turkeys 🦃 Fabulous event crew as usual 💞 #loveparkrun #naturelover 🌸🦜 #Springfield 🌇
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We are always so impressed by our HDRs! Here are @pearlwong.bsky.social and @vics-echidna.bsky.social presenting at the UQ School of Public Health Research Seminar on their topics of psychosocial benefits of cooking for adolescents, and the benefits of nature-based physical activities
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We are always so impressed by our HDRs! Here are @pearlwong.bsky.social and @vics-echidna.bsky.social presenting at the UQ School of Public Health Research Seminar on their topics of psychosocial benefits of cooking for adolescents, and the benefits of nature-based physical activities
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📱💉 Diabetes Digital Health
In a diverse, low-income Brisbane community, 85% of adults with T2DM owned smartphones, 59% use apps. Age not language was an app use barrier.
Older adults need tailored support for digital health adoption.
#mHealth #Diabetes #HealthEquity
📜https://doi.org/10.1071/AH24289
In a diverse, low-income Brisbane community, 85% of adults with T2DM owned smartphones, 59% use apps. Age not language was an app use barrier.
Older adults need tailored support for digital health adoption.
#mHealth #Diabetes #HealthEquity
📜https://doi.org/10.1071/AH24289
Are people with diabetes mHealth-ready? Smartphone utilisation in a socioeconomically marginalised urban Australian general practitioner-led diabetes clinic
Objective Mobile Health (mHealth), a subset of digital health, requires people to own smartphones, but ownership barriers overlap with social factors linked to type 2 diabetes (T2D) burden. We describ...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
📱💉 Diabetes Digital Health
In a diverse, low-income Brisbane community, 85% of adults with T2DM owned smartphones, 59% use apps. Age not language was an app use barrier.
Older adults need tailored support for digital health adoption.
#mHealth #Diabetes #HealthEquity
📜https://doi.org/10.1071/AH24289
In a diverse, low-income Brisbane community, 85% of adults with T2DM owned smartphones, 59% use apps. Age not language was an app use barrier.
Older adults need tailored support for digital health adoption.
#mHealth #Diabetes #HealthEquity
📜https://doi.org/10.1071/AH24289
Beautiful hibiscus 🌺 on the Gold Coast 😊 #NatureMatters🌏
May 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Beautiful hibiscus 🌺 on the Gold Coast 😊 #NatureMatters🌏
Love this photo of a silver gull on the beach 🕊 #NatureMatters🏖
May 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Love this photo of a silver gull on the beach 🕊 #NatureMatters🏖
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Oh my! The black bird I saw was a spangled drongo 😍 the tail is a give away... first I've seen in 2.5 years! ⭐️ Nb not my photo... #NatureMatters🐦
May 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Oh my! The black bird I saw was a spangled drongo 😍 the tail is a give away... first I've seen in 2.5 years! ⭐️ Nb not my photo... #NatureMatters🐦
Oh my! The black bird I saw was a spangled drongo 😍 the tail is a give away... first I've seen in 2.5 years! ⭐️ Nb not my photo... #NatureMatters🐦
May 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Oh my! The black bird I saw was a spangled drongo 😍 the tail is a give away... first I've seen in 2.5 years! ⭐️ Nb not my photo... #NatureMatters🐦
Beautiful #parkrun #parwalk at #VarsityLakes. I spotted 19 bird species: water, sea & woodland birds. Swan families, the willy wagtail, the black & white usual suspects & an unknown bird I'll have to look up. Egrets, herons, swamphens. Photos below not from today. @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social 🦜🐦⬛🐦
May 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Beautiful #parkrun #parwalk at #VarsityLakes. I spotted 19 bird species: water, sea & woodland birds. Swan families, the willy wagtail, the black & white usual suspects & an unknown bird I'll have to look up. Egrets, herons, swamphens. Photos below not from today. @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social 🦜🐦⬛🐦
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Want to sharpen your skills in introductory coffee meetings? Check out my reflections on how to be strategic to enable collaborations, insights, mentoring, and deeper interpersonal connections with colleagues. Let me know other tips you may have! ☕
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How do leading researchers make the most of introductory coffee meetings?
One of the simplest yet most powerful tools in a researcher's toolbox is the introductory coffee meeting. These short, informal conversations can lead to collaborations, insights, mentoring, and deepe...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to sharpen your skills in introductory coffee meetings? Check out my reflections on how to be strategic to enable collaborations, insights, mentoring, and deeper interpersonal connections with colleagues. Let me know other tips you may have! ☕
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Post conference walk in the peace gardens with more bird activities, including king parrots, crimson rosella, & another big gang of cockies active at dusk. Beautiful sunset. #Canberra @publichealthaus.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Post conference walk in the peace gardens with more bird activities, including king parrots, crimson rosella, & another big gang of cockies active at dusk. Beautiful sunset. #Canberra @publichealthaus.bsky.social
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Our recent research highlights the value of working in partnership with community, to genuinely listen to their views, amplify their ideas and respond accordingly as researchers. Check out this latest paper by the fabulous PhD candidate, Shanti Kadariya!
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Community listening to understand determinants of healthy eating in an Australian priority community
Abstract. Unhealthy dietary behaviour is associated with several adverse health outcomes. However, individual dietary choices aren’t solely the function of
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April 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Our recent research highlights the value of working in partnership with community, to genuinely listen to their views, amplify their ideas and respond accordingly as researchers. Check out this latest paper by the fabulous PhD candidate, Shanti Kadariya!
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
#Canberra! Autumn in full colour 🙂 So lovely to see red-gold oak tree avenues 🍂🍁 and so many birds 😍 Sulphur cresties, galahs, maggies so far. Looking forward to some new bird encounters over the next few days 🦜🐦⬛🐦🕊 Maybe some new species to get to know 😃 #PHAAConference @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Beautiful morning walk from hotel to conference. More lovely oak trees, galahs, plus Parliament House old and new, Magna Carta structure and cool sunshine ☀️ #Prevention2025 @uqcchw.bsky.social #NatureMatters 🌳🦜
April 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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'Brianna Harvey from What Were You Wearing Australia, told the crowd violence was "not random, it is a pattern and it is preventable".
"Where is the outrage from those in power and where is the emergency level funding?"'
#HerNameWasAudreyGriffin #femicide #Australia
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"Where is the outrage from those in power and where is the emergency level funding?"'
#HerNameWasAudreyGriffin #femicide #Australia
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Hundreds brave rain to protest gendered violence after death of woman
Protest organisers decried the lack of action around violence against women as hundreds marched in the NSW Central Coast inspired by the death of local Audrey Griffin.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
'Brianna Harvey from What Were You Wearing Australia, told the crowd violence was "not random, it is a pattern and it is preventable".
"Where is the outrage from those in power and where is the emergency level funding?"'
#HerNameWasAudreyGriffin #femicide #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
"Where is the outrage from those in power and where is the emergency level funding?"'
#HerNameWasAudreyGriffin #femicide #Australia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Beautiful walk at dusk via Parliament House 🏛 #Prevention2025 conference #Canberra.
April 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Beautiful walk at dusk via Parliament House 🏛 #Prevention2025 conference #Canberra.
Beautiful morning walk from hotel to conference. More lovely oak trees, galahs, plus Parliament House old and new, Magna Carta structure and cool sunshine ☀️ #Prevention2025 @uqcchw.bsky.social #NatureMatters 🌳🦜
April 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Beautiful morning walk from hotel to conference. More lovely oak trees, galahs, plus Parliament House old and new, Magna Carta structure and cool sunshine ☀️ #Prevention2025 @uqcchw.bsky.social #NatureMatters 🌳🦜
#Canberra! Autumn in full colour 🙂 So lovely to see red-gold oak tree avenues 🍂🍁 and so many birds 😍 Sulphur cresties, galahs, maggies so far. Looking forward to some new bird encounters over the next few days 🦜🐦⬛🐦🕊 Maybe some new species to get to know 😃 #PHAAConference @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#Canberra! Autumn in full colour 🙂 So lovely to see red-gold oak tree avenues 🍂🍁 and so many birds 😍 Sulphur cresties, galahs, maggies so far. Looking forward to some new bird encounters over the next few days 🦜🐦⬛🐦🕊 Maybe some new species to get to know 😃 #PHAAConference @phaa-onehealth.bsky.social
Sun up just in time for @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social at #SurfersParadise 🏖 after a very wet couple of days. Hot n steamy though with lots of Corella and Cresty activity. Very squawky 😄🦜🕊 #loveparkrun @parkrunstats.bsky.social @pauls-h.bsky.social 🥰
April 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Sun up just in time for @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social at #SurfersParadise 🏖 after a very wet couple of days. Hot n steamy though with lots of Corella and Cresty activity. Very squawky 😄🦜🕊 #loveparkrun @parkrunstats.bsky.social @pauls-h.bsky.social 🥰
Reposted by Vicky Sullivan
Our most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
Doctors call for greater pressure on Israel over Gaza – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/doctors-call...
Doctors call for greater pressure on Israel over Gaza – Croakey Health Media
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Doctors call for greater pressure on Israel over Gaza
*** This article was updated on 21 May to include the Australian Medical Association's statement *** Introduction by Croakey: Two
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April 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Our most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
Doctors call for greater pressure on Israel over Gaza – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/doctors-call...
Doctors call for greater pressure on Israel over Gaza – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/doctors-call...
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Our second most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
Queensland Government urged to lift “cruel and unnecessary” restrictions on gender-affirming care – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/queensland-g...
Queensland Government urged to lift “cruel and unnecessary” restrictions on gender-affirming care – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/queensland-g...
Queensland Government urged to lift “cruel and unnecessary” restrictions on gender-affirming care
Introduction by Croakey: Health and medical groups are sounding the alarm about the Queensland Government's recent announcement restricting access to
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April 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our second most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
Queensland Government urged to lift “cruel and unnecessary” restrictions on gender-affirming care – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/queensland-g...
Queensland Government urged to lift “cruel and unnecessary” restrictions on gender-affirming care – Croakey Health Media
www.croakey.org/queensland-g...
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Our third most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
As another general practice closes, new report calls for practical action to better support primary healthcare – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/as-another-g...
HT @timsenior.bsky.social
As another general practice closes, new report calls for practical action to better support primary healthcare – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/as-another-g...
HT @timsenior.bsky.social
As another general practice closes, new report calls for practical action to better support primary healthcare
Introduction by Croakey: General practice is becoming unviable in the areas of Australia where patients most need primary healthcare, creating
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April 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our third most-read article in the first quarter of 2025:
As another general practice closes, new report calls for practical action to better support primary healthcare – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/as-another-g...
HT @timsenior.bsky.social
As another general practice closes, new report calls for practical action to better support primary healthcare – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/as-another-g...
HT @timsenior.bsky.social
Fantastic morning at Paradise Point #parkrun celebrating a friend's 250 milestone (another one!) Beautiful course by the water & thru the park, families celebrating #Easter & the lovely weather 🌤 Followed by a swim after ☕️ Best start to the day ✨️🦜💪🏊♂️ @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social @pauls-h.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Fantastic morning at Paradise Point #parkrun celebrating a friend's 250 milestone (another one!) Beautiful course by the water & thru the park, families celebrating #Easter & the lovely weather 🌤 Followed by a swim after ☕️ Best start to the day ✨️🦜💪🏊♂️ @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social @pauls-h.bsky.social
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I'm excited to share about our experiences at Springfield and how we are living and breathing the academic impact agenda!
Join @proflaurenball.bsky.social, Director of the UQ Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, as she shares insights from Springfield – Australia’s largest master-planned community and a unique “living lab” for research.
Register for free now! researchimpactacademy.com/2025-webinar...
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Register for free now! researchimpactacademy.com/2025-webinar...
#webinar
April 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I'm excited to share about our experiences at Springfield and how we are living and breathing the academic impact agenda!
Fabulous #parkrun at Main Beach, celebrating my 250 milestone and a friend's 600th!!! Great to celebrate with others 😍 #loveparkrun @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social @parkrunstats.bsky.social ✨️🦜
April 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fabulous #parkrun at Main Beach, celebrating my 250 milestone and a friend's 600th!!! Great to celebrate with others 😍 #loveparkrun @parkrunaustralia.bsky.social @parkrunstats.bsky.social ✨️🦜