Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈

@CochraneAus researcher for evidence-informed decision-making. White person living on unceded Gumbaynggirr land. All views here my own. They/them.

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@JBracchiglione @Tari_Turner Thank you for the feedback @JBracchiglione! We learnt so much doing the evidence review for the guidelines and writing the paper. We are always looking to how we can better centre both structural concerns and people in the work we do. So much to learn!

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

Congratulations to Zaachariaha Fielding on winning the Wynne! A breathtaking visual artist and electrifying musician.

[SBS Voices @SBSVoices]

"The work is music, and I am music. My work is a celebration and is a song in itself and the sound comes from my community," says Zaachariaha Fielding, who won the Wynne Prize for best landscape painting, & is one half of electric-pop duo Electric Fields.
https://t.co/KS0wWhqdVO

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

What a skilled and diverse team and approach! This project will hopefully contribute to surfacing critical health equity considerations for use in both systematic reviews and guidelines. And that can only be a good thing. #methods #guideline #health #systematicreview

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

#Pride #parkrun on #Gadigal land. Best song on playlist #TreatyNow. Tomorrow I’ll be walking in solidarity with First Nations and Palestinian people on their sovereign lands and the world over. #TogetherStronger

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

Sandy O'Sullivan responds to Lidia Thorpe's protest action at Mardi Gras and speaks to the history of, and continuing need for, protest alongside celebration.

https://t.co/tUQvqP19Gi @sandyosullivan @SydWorldPride
#SydneyWorldPride #IndigenousX

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

Brilliant thread and resources - thanks @geetreddy! I'd encourage those working in research outside of the psychological sciences to engage with this.

[Geetha கீதா @geetreddy]

All this talk about positionality in psychological sciences and lots of it missing decades of work from decolonial scholarship & critical psychology on this very thing. Using work I know to share words of ancestors. A 🧵 and feel free to add (1/n)

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

"Global health research will advance from greater
recognition of the value, expertise, perspectives, and
approach of LMIC researchers and communities." Great article @manasikumar229 et al with call to action for people working from high-income settings. https://t.co/6JWc4qfCcM

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@sandyosullivan The whole ‘G&L’ Mardi Gras thing is one way to maintain the orthodoxy and practise exclusion.

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

If you’re wondering who to follow to increase your knowledge of thinkers and thinking for your health equity work, these commissioners are top of my list. Yep. #TrailBlazing indeed.

[Ngozi @udnore]

What an honour it is to finally announce the commissioners of @oneillinstitute -@TheLancet Commission on #Race Structural Discrimination & #GlobalHealth. I admire each of these dynamic leaders.

Blessed to Chair this with my sister @drtlaleng

#Trailblazing #groundbreaking

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@emilie_skb Fiction takes me to other places, let’s me walk alongside people and their experiences, teaches me history and geopolitics, and connects with my heart so I can bring all of that into my work. As important as reading research papers.

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@MartaSchaaf @HRPresearch @ColumbiaPopFam I wish this paper had been published when we were doing our work on induction of labour recommendation updates - so powerful and informative at the structural level! https://t.co/4WAXD5fXEH

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@EpiEllie @Dr_S_Jefferson On my reading list for today!

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@Tari_Turner, @chou_dc, @laura_unicamp and I reflect on using the WHO-INTEGRATE framework for updating induction of labour recommendations: https://t.co/4WAXD5fXEH. How are you addressing issues of equity & rights in guideline development? #EvidenceSynthesis #guidelines #equity

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

Health equity, rights and representation in research: moving towards an action- and justice-oriented approach. I pondered this question here https://t.co/2vpBEgfSxJ, and would love to hear your thoughts and experiences. #guidelines #EvidenceSynthesis #equity #justice

[Julia Robinson @JuliaE_Robinson]

Just over a year since this piece by @NoorAbdisalan was published - I think about it all the time:

"Speak up when you can, do your best to behave conscientiously, it is the collective, sustained behaviors of individuals that shape institutional culture."
https://t.co/AitogoiuNm

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

@janet_rice Sounds like the system is working exactly as intended.

[Cochrane Australia @CochraneAus]

📰Cochrane Australia's quarterly newsletter is out! Catch up on the latest news, reviews, training, events, and more!
You can read it here: https://t.co/NUgXj2eYMS
and subscribe: https://t.co/qgQnrugZpS

[Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre @TAClutruwita]

101 Things you should know about the National Apology - including that is not intended to be a 'forgive and forget.'
It was a step in a guided process of reparation against human rights, not persuade us to 'get over it' or 'move on' https://t.co/vDNnkYcBef
#TruthTelling

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

I am continually grappling with shifting my thinking and work from a descriptive/analytical approach to an action-oriented transformative one. Stepping outside my lane and making sure I'm reading and following leading Indigenous scholars and activists is one key strategy.

[Melissa Murano 🏳️‍🌈 @MelissaMurano]

And this /"[Health researchers] cannot pretend to be objective and impartial observers; in fact, our intellectual work must be put to work legally and politically if we are seeking to effect change, rather than just track deaths.”/ @drcwatego

[Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá @seyeabimbola]

Great profile of Prof @drcwatego out in @TheLancet: https://t.co/Za9wlGcnYe

/“the public health physician in the colony was a central apparatus of colonial control”; “racialised knowledge that continues to be produced” in public health “sustains our ongoing dispossession” today/