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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 19

From peer-reviewed publication last week to @aunz.theconversation.com this week, #UQCHSR Affiliate @dcurioussc.bsky.social is showcasing the full range of his work - this time with the great @proflaurenball.bsky.social on a topic relevant to LOTS of us daily (or perhaps several times daily 😳☕☕)

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Jun 16

Barista milks promise foamier, creamier coffee, but what’s really in them? Here’s what sets them apart from regular milk.

What’s the difference between barista milk and regular milk? It’s what gets added to it

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 12

🤳'They’re smart and engaging, but they don’t think like humans...'

Great to see this article led by our Centre for Online Health team featured in @aunz.theconversation.com this morning!

🔗 tinyurl.com/4kzes7da

#AI #chatbot #telehealth #mentalhealth #research

Screenshot of article title 'Do you talk to AU when you're feeling down? Here's where chatbots get their therapy advice'.
With accompanying image: a young person looking at a phone in a dimly lit room with a neutral expression on their face.
Along with author listings: Centaine Snoswell, UQ; Aaron J Snowell, QUT; Laura Neil, UQ.
Click link for reader-friendly version of article.

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 9

#agedcare #frailty #behaviouralsciences #telehealth #healtheconomics #kidneyhealth #digitalhealth #substanceuse

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 9

3-minute read 🤓
An efficient enews catch-up on top-line #UQCHSR activities, right across our research groups.
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#healthcare #research

May recap

Centre Director's message If you’re a regular follower of our Linkedin feed, you may already have noticed that May has been a big month of milestones and publications for our PhD candidates and early ...

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 5

Latest research led by #UQCHSR's REMODeL Project—Rethinking the Model of Outpatient Diabetes Care Utilising eHealth. Congratulations team!

dcurioussc.bsky.social @dcurioussc.bsky.social · May 28

📱💉 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

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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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 4

Great to see you in mainstream media (again!) @piatkowskitim.bsky.social 🙌

Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · Jun 3

Talking about @enhanced_games; Interview via Mamamia: www.mamamia.com.au/james-magnus...

“People in the community use these substances… We need to legitimise and elevate that knowledge more" said Dr Piatkowski.

@griffithcmh.bsky.social
@uqchsr.bsky.social

There’s an alternative Olympics where everyone’s on performing enhancing drugs.

An Aussie swimming champion is the first major athlete to sign on.

www.mamamia.com.au

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Jun 2

Register now to hear from #UQCHSR Adjunct Senior Fellow @piatkowskitim.bsky.social later this week ⬇️

Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · Jun 2

Join Me to learn about the key findings from Wave 2 of the world-first #steroid checking trial.

🗓️ Thursday, 5 June
⏲️ 3pm AEST
📍 Zoom webinar

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@NDARC
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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 25

Dr Jackie Huggins, Director Indigenous Research for our Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences faculty is featured in SBS #NRW25 coverage: tinyurl.com/37nnn7yr

See #UQ's week-long program: life.uq.edu.au/nationalreco...

Reconciliation Week is bridging the past and future for First Nations Australians

Every year in conjunction with National Reconciliation Week from 27 May to 3 June, Australians are presented with the opportunity to learn more about the nation’s shared histories, cultures and achiev...

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 13

💻 Next Tue 20 May: for health professionals only (thank you 🙏)

#UQCHSR's Centre for Online Health delivers Palliative Care ECHO nationally, and their next monthly session focuses on caregivers of people with a disability.

How do sessions work? lnkd.in/gM2Y29-R

With @helenmhaydon.bsky.social

Birds eye view of telehealth session presenters from #UQCHSR's Centre for Online Health

Text flyer for event, please click link in post for ready-friendly details

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 12

Extending @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social's celebration of their nurse-researchers into the #blueskysphere this #InternationalNursesDay #IND2025

Happy International Nurses Day tile from International Council of Nurses

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you for sharing @jillmarette99.bsky.social!!

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 8

✨Scholarship opps ✨

#UQCHSR Director @monikajanda.bsky.social is supervising two new PhD projects, incl fellowship support.

Both advance key aims of the award-winning
@acrf-acemid.bsky.social project.

Visit #UQ: study.uq.edu.au/study-option... + search ‘Janda’ for details.

#PhDposition

Prof Peter Soyer accepting ACEMID's 2024 Eureka Award

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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · May 7

Our one and only QuIVAA Board Member, Steroid Harm Reduction Research Superstar, and now new @uqchsr.bsky.social Adjunct Senior Fellow @piatkowskitim.bsky.social! 💜✊️💉💊🌟
Queensland, Represent! 🤩

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 7

#UQCHSR's new Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr Tim Piatkowski shared his #HR25Bogotá experience generously here on @bsky.app!
Follow @piatkowskitim.bsky.social for a steady stream of latest research in harm reduction, esp re steroids, in close partnership with #UQexperts like @jasonferris22.bsky.social 🙌

Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · Apr 28

@harmreductionintl.bsky.social
Day 1 Plenary
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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 8

🙌🙌 #queenslander 😂

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · May 7

#UQCHSR's new Adjunct Senior Fellow Dr Tim Piatkowski shared his #HR25Bogotá experience generously here on @bsky.app!
Follow @piatkowskitim.bsky.social for a steady stream of latest research in harm reduction, esp re steroids, in close partnership with #UQexperts like @jasonferris22.bsky.social 🙌

Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · Apr 28

@harmreductionintl.bsky.social
Day 1 Plenary
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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 29

Dr Lee (Leanna) Woods, Senior Research Fellow in #UQCHSR's Queensland Digital Health Centre, and co-authors ask:

What does it really take to implement digital health successfully in rural and remote Australia?

📖 Read the full open-access article here: lnkd.in/gWGsQCPw

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 28

Two important new publications from our AFN team to start the week, led by Dr Kristiana Ludlow and Dr Fred Graham respectively. Congratulations team!

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The Daffodil Centre @daffodilcentre.org · Apr 23

JOB OPPORTUNITY👋| Are you passionate about cancer research and looking for an exciting role? The #DaffodilCentre is seeking a dedicated #ResearchAssistant to join our team and contribute to an impactful #ClinicalTrial.

📅DEADLINE: 7 May 2025, 11:59PM AEST.

🌐APPLY NOW🔗 daffodilcentre.org/careers/

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 22

Two weeks to go! Clinicians and researchers, register now to lock in your diary on the other side of the public holidays 📆📆

Australian Frailty Network @ausfrailtynetwork.bsky.social · Mar 18

Frailty & Ageing in Prisons
How does incarceration affect older adults? Join the AFN Geriatric Medicine Seminar to explore challenges and solutions for better care.

📅 6 May 2025 | 🕛 12:00–13:00 AEST | 📍 Online

👉 Register: bit.ly/41rPkPu

#GeriatricMedicine #Frailty #Ageing #JusticeHealth #AFN

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 14

Didn't catch the latest issue of our Linkedin enews?
Catch up here➡️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/march-...

Photo of a Health Service directional sign, with accompanying text UQCHSR snapshot

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 9

Continuing last night's conversation on AI in health...

Sax Institute @saxinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 9

💡 There’s a lot of hype and promise around the use of AI in public health, but what does current research say about its potential and the risks involved? A new paper in PHRP reviews the evidence 👉 www.saxinstitute.org.au/news/ai-in-p...

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 8

💡 Reminder: Hear #UQCHSR Director @monikajanda.bsky.social's consumer-centred perspective, free online from 6pm - registrations remain open! 💻

ACRF Melanoma Imaging & Diagnosis Centre @acrf-acemid.bsky.social · Mar 25

🗣️Professor @monikajanda.bsky.social is one of two expert speakers in the Australian Academy of Science Public Speaker Series 2025, on April 8 @ 5.30pm AEST.

Register now for free online attendance to learn more about "AI and our Health"!🤖

🔗 aas.eventsair.com/public-speak...

@uqchsr.bsky.social

UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Apr 7

Caught our Substance Use & Mental Health deep dive lately: tinyurl.com/jsj5f4vz ❔
Let's continue the conversation across our channels.

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Apr 3

Telling people to ‘just say no’ to drugs has never worked. Better education and awareness of the harms is key.

Get big or die trying: social media is driving men’s use of steroids. Here’s how to mitigate the risks

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UQ Centre for Health Services Research @uqchsr.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thank you for reposting @piatkowskitim.bsky.social 🔁🙌

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Cheneal Puljevic @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social · Feb 12

And then this paper describes the results of the world's first steroid testing trial conducted right here in Queensland, led by the incredible Tim @piatkowskitim.bsky.social in partnership with The Loop Australia and the others.

Tim Piatkowski @piatkowskitim.bsky.social · Feb 6

World 1st Steroid Testing Trial in @addictionjournal.bsky.social w. amazing team some who are here: @chenealpuljevic.bsky.social @jasonferris22.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social

@griffith.edu.au @griffithcmh.bsky.social @uqchsr.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/add....

The world's first anabolic‐androgenic steroid testing trial: A two‐phase pilot combining chemical analysis, results dissemination and community feedback

Background and Aims The clandestine production and distribution of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) poses health risks due to the uncertainty of their contents. This study aimed to test the chemic...

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