🔍Exciting PhD project alert! Seeking to understand how kids aged 6-12 experience parental cancer & what support they need.  We want to co-produce psychosocial supports for better outcomes for kids!

See: behaviouralsciencesunit.org/parentalcancer… 

Jordana McLoone, PhD Claire Wakefield PhD 🎗️
#ResearchWithKids

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Such a joy to co-lead today’s workshop on strategies to support optimal palliative care for adolescents+young adults w these brilliant women: Dr Holly Evans, Dr Toni Lindsay, Dr Amanda Fernando💪🏼 #AYACSM #PedPC #IWD2024 Anthony Herbert Canteen Australia

Last 3days remaining before this survey to develop guiding principles for consumer engagement with CALD communities in cancer care closes. If you haven’t had a chance to complete yet, please use the link below - mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9…

Great talk by Monica Tang on common challenges faced after #cancer treatment at our #Survivorship Centre Open Week! 💪🏼

Excited to co-design better psych services for young adults after cancer in our new project w Joanna Fardell Monica Tang -funded by #POWHospital Foundation 🙌🏻

Up to $14.5 million was awarded to our researchers across the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network in the recent rounds of #MRFF grants helping to transform #ChildrensHealth 🔬
🎊Congratulations to all our researchers who were successful! Read more➡️kr.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/articles/2024/…

Further excel your research career and open up new outreach opportunities...become a Young Tall Poppy science award winner and join over 1000 Young Tall Poppy alumni!
Nominations open later this week (22nd Feb)
aips.net.au/2024-young-tal…

#ytp24 #tallpoppy #scienceawards

Instead of 'G'day', today we say 'K'day' for kids with cancer

Any donations kindly made on 15 February are matched by @thekidscancerproject, having DOUBLE the impact on vital kids’ cancer research, and support researchers like myself

👉kday.org.au

#Kday #Kday 2024

Ta da - great to see this back and out there - don’t forget call for abstracts open tomorrow 🦞🐨🦘🔬

Our team is keen to hear from young people who have had brain #cancer , and their families/carers & health professionals 💪🏻 so we can tailor better support programs to help beyond brain cancer #AYACSM #BTSM

pls RT!

Canteen Australia Redkite Cancer Council NSW 💉💉💉A/Prof. Haryana Dhillon💉💉💉 Annie Miller 💉 💉

11 Feb is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
We'd like to celebrate our 35 female 2023 YTP's who are doing amazing things - from identify emerging poisoning threats to improving our understanding of what seafood species we eat.
aips.net.au/tall_poppy_fin…
#WomenInSTEM

1/2 Self-guided #digitalhealth interventions can ⬆️ access to psychosocial cancer care, but does the lack of personal touch constrain impact? Our #SysRev & #MetaAnalysis found ⬇️ engagement & efficacy 4 non-guided vs guided interventions for most outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/po…

Now in the #PalliativeCare Special Issue Current Problems in Cancer & CPC: Case Reports with Holly Evans, PhD Ursula Sansom-Daly, PhD “Examining the Cultural Appropriateness of Advance Care Planning Tools for Adolescents and Young Adults with #Cancer .” Kristina B. Newport #hapc #PedsPC sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Calling for 💫 applicants to do a PhD to develop #telehealth support for families of children w cancer 🙌🏻

🔜 DUE 28 Jan 2024

Based at the Behavioural Sciences Unit UNSW Medicine & Health, with a great supervisor team 💪🏻

More 👉🏻behaviouralsciencesunit.org/positions-vaca…

Pls RT! Claire Wakefield PhD 🎗️ Child UnLimited

Beautiful presentation by one of our #BehaviouralSciencesUnit PhD students Rhea Felton starting with a child-centric Acknowledgment of Country 💛

Rhea’s PhD is using child-centred participatory methods to understand how children <12y make meaning of their parent’s #cancer 💪🏻

Our paper on trauma-informed care for sexual and gender minority (SGM; LGBTQI2S+) patients with cancer is out in ACS Journal Cancer! #sgm #cancer
LGBTQ Health Research Hub 🌈 Natl LGBT Cancer Net @LGBTcancer Laura Sinko PhD, MSHP, RN Chris Wheldon #alexfauer
URochester School of Nursing Temple University UC Davis Health

Dying can feel lonely….even when lots of people are around.

Surrounded by positivity, a person can feel silenced & not permitted to share what’s really on their mind.

Many dying people are waiting for the invitation to get real.

Listen for loneliness.
#Medtwitter #Meded

#PrecisionMedicine has transformed #ChildCancer treatment-with it, come new hopes+uncertainties.

Yet, as this data shows, ppl rarely regret taking part in the trials👉🏻ow.ly/egXL50PQsSO

Open communication about all these hopes+concerns is key. Fab blog by Jacqueline Hunter below!

Persistent pelvic pain💥incl. from #Endometriosis affects ~2.6M Australian women. We need to hear from you!

Dr Supuni Kapurubandara’s research aims to better understand women’s lived experiences of pelvic pain, to improve diagnosis+ care.

Please RT👉🏻 redcap.unsw.edu.au/surveys/?s=YJ7…

EndometriosisAust