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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Facts about Health,
Technology and Working with Local Communities
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Below are some of my explainer pieces, mythbusters, feature articles and radio and television appearances for health agencies and media outlets.
Motor Neurone Disease
Community Health
COVID-19 and Local Sports, Care at End of Life, Medically Supervised Injection Facilities, Smoke and City Life, Refugee and Migrant Health
(Image taken by Mercury Newspaper, available at Libraries Tasmania)
What are Platform Trials, Sport and Motor Neurone Disease, the Ice Bucket Challenge
(Image courtesy of MND Australia)
Technology
Radio & TV
Sunrise on Channel 7 – Dealing with Opioid Painkillers, ABC NSW Radio – Rural Communities of Australia and Opioid Painkillers, 3RRR Melbourne Radio – A 2nd Medically Supervised Injection Centre for Melbourne (starts at 01hr:16min)
Managing Pain and Medications
Dealing with Stress
Ben (mid) and the MND Australia team (2020).
Work for organisations
Motor Neurone Disease Australia
Fact sheets, guides and other information resources
Swinburne University
Alcohol and Drug Foundation
I lived most of my life in Melbourne where I worked in community health research and science communication, before moving to Canberra in early 2018 to live with my wife. I love finding ways of making information about health easy to understand, and evidence based.
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