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lcalaisferreira.bsky.social
Epidemiologist (PhD) focused on improving population health equity through science, evidence, and change. Profile: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/ao98
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Really useful thread!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Hopefully not too rushed given I've got a Year 11 English exam tomorrow - but behalf of all of @6newsau.bsky.social, I have made a submission to the relevant Committee regarding the social media ban for under-16s There's less than 24hrs to make a submission: aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

submitted 132 days ago • 84 comments

Happy to see this platform finally taking off. I look forward to learning and connecting with folks with similar interests (epidemiology, data linkage, social epi, justice health, twin studies, etc.) #epi #episky

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

submitted 475 days ago • 38 comments

Another paper from my PhD has been published: Mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children with experience of out-of-home care: a Western Australian data-linkage study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment