Beth Meertens

Curious: health policy, decision making & nutrition science | RT/follow ≠ endorse (just curious) | Evidence Manager @heart_aust | Views mine

[Julie Anne Mitchell @julieannemitch]

@HeartAust is hiring -a new exciting role as National Manager Food and Nutrition closing day 31 Jan https://t.co/Nr1fM3uVgV @_PHAA_ @DAA_feed @georgeinstitute @VicHealth @_bethTM @alikjones @NSWHealth @rosestant70 @_Amanda_J_Lee_ @Foodwatch

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

“It’s a bloody nightmare”
Meaning: Something is proving a mild inconvenience; typically used to describe slightly heavy traffic, or the internet not working

“It’s not ideal”
Meaning: Something terrible has happened and life is almost certainly ruined

[Rohan Greenland @GreenlandRohan]

Some new key dates relevant for Australian public health advocates:
Dec 16-18: ALP Nat Conference
Dec 17: MYEFO
April 2: Federal Budget
May: Federal 🗳 election possibly May 11 or 18 @_PHAA_ @HeartAust @ACDPAlliance #NCDs https://t.co/lmJSfVlYvA

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

Highly recommend this upcoming webinar on food literacy 🍏
Don’t know where to start with food literacy in your practice? 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏻‍♂️
Start with this webinar!
#nutrition #PublicHealth #communityhealth

[Academia ɐɹnɔsqO @AcademiaObscura]

Tfw your co-author uses multiple line breaks to create a page break and you change the font size and all hell breaks loose.

[Cia Connell @CiaConnell]

There have been recent reports of patients stopping their #aspirin inappropriately, misinterpreting the media regarding #ASPREE as also applying to secondary prevention. We wrote this blog to help demystify things for patients @HeartAust https://t.co/XN6TaXJAwq

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

@CiaConnell And thanks @CiaConnell for being an amazing pharmacist I’ve been lucky enough to work with!! 👩‍💻👩🏻‍🔬

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Ways to look busy:

1. Turn up later than everyone else but rush into the office looking annoyed
2. Act like spending half an hour in the toilet has annoyed you
3. Rush around with an open laptop looking annoyed
4. Get annoyed at a printer
5. Just generally look annoyed

[Brad Schoenfeld, PhD @BradSchoenfeld]

With the advent of the internet, this unfortunately is how many interpret research

[seanna davidson @seannalee]

wanna build your #systemsthinking capacity and not sure where to start? try our #systemspractices things you can do in your everyday work, on a small scale to get you thinking systemically https://t.co/gEBxTw95ax created w/ @mishymorgs and I at @TAPPCentre

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

" ..an appreciative and graceful approach to (peer) reviewing invariably elicits a human moment from us."

This holds for any opp to comment on a colleagues work. Peer review or no. Thx to all who've been gracious in their feedback to me over the years (:

https://t.co/QpjilU1sf0

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

Who creates value (and how do we define it)?

Discusses the importance of long term thinking in public policy, and positioning government as an investor of first resort.

https://t.co/NL68QqpXIm

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

Weight bias in exercise and nutrition professionals. Sys review of x-sectional and qualitative studies.

https://t.co/lNxEsC8u9T

I like the use of a table to clearly set out suggested future research areas #loveagoodtable

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

Sys review of sys reviews; Oh, and it's on low carb diets.

Read the paper yourself. My take home? LC one of many (not only) ways to adapt a diet.

More interesting is the exploration of factors which may contribute to biasing outcomes of sys rvs.

https://t.co/Dk1wR5cNcx

[Dr Susie Cartledge @susiecartledge]

How many computers and PhDs does it take to do a big @HeartAust project?! A lot apparently but we are getting there @_emma_thomas! Always a pleasure working with you. #cardiacrehab #deleriousresearchers #tgif

[Academia ɐɹnɔsqO @AcademiaObscura]

The best graph you are likely to see this week.

[A/Prof Katherine Livingstone @Katmlivingstone]

What makes a good partnership between researchers and policy makers? The ideal partnership is based on co-production! #policy #research #partnership @SaxInstitute

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

One for you @pottjane

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

"We will never address health inequalities with kale, hummus and artisan sour dough."

[Angry Chef @One_Angry_Chef]

Think it might just be time for a new Angry Chef post.

Sorry, low carb again, but they do go on.

On headlines, dietary obsessions and nutrition's big problem.

https://t.co/tmp98jTE0r

[Beth Meertens @_bethTM]

That's not a knife, this is a knife...Are we talking about the same thing when we're using the same words? In nutrition, labels are thrown around willy nilly.

This article explores uncertaintly in diet classification, using ketogenic diet as an example. https://t.co/FNaKhLtiHW