Amali Lokugamage

Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Medical Educator, MSc Epidemiology & Author. (Views are my own)

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

@elisaperego78 @Nat_E_Pearson @LCawarenessInt @LongCovidAHP @SupportingHH_UK @Ra2myl This article distorts the true history of how the terminology of long covid came about. It wasn't just Twitter, but also other groups on FB etc and the authorship of many blogs in journals & activists that met with WHO after a documentary 'Message in Bottle' by LC SOS. 😔

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

I remember it well. I could barely speak with #longcovid vocal and speech issues at the time.

[Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social @LongCovidSOS]

Our historic meeting with @mvankerkhove @WHO took place in August 2020 - we invited a range of speakers with lived experience

Afterwards Director General @DrTedros told us he had received our SOS

3/3
https://t.co/gGTe9FrNzz

[Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social @LongCovidSOS]

Our historic meeting with @mvankerkhove @WHO took place in August 2020 - we invited a range of speakers with lived experience

Afterwards Director General @DrTedros told us he had received our SOS

3/3
https://t.co/gGTe9FrNzz

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

My book The Heart in the Womb. Photo taken by Eva Rose, Norwegian birth photographer and doula at Birthrights Norge conference, Norway.

[ScienceOpen @Science_Open]

'Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems' a @PLOSGPH article on #ScienceOpen: https://t.co/W3nvsjdc7k

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

PHARM-LC: What role can Community Pharmacy play in supporting.... Kingstone T et al., published by NIHR Open Research, https://t.co/74GECamLP4

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

A new study suggests the extreme mental and physical fatigue experienced by many long COVID patients is, in fact, observable in the central nervous system. #LongCovid

https://t.co/3pbPvso3g0

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

@elisaperego78 I am glad we wrote that @bmj_latest blog https://t.co/O8rV6Oihex plus other blogs to raise awareness #LongCovid @Juliet_hd 🙏

[Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78]

@lapsyrevoltee @somatosphere Support groups by patients for patients were being created like @apresj20 @long_covid @LongCovidSOS. @WHO recognized #LongCovid after a meeting with advocates on 21 August 2020

[Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE @dunkleybent]

Looking forward to chairing the @NHS_RHO this group https://t.co/pQmctNiwJi tomorrow with Daghni Rajasingam. We will focus on equity& equality review of our work past, present &future. Also thanks&call to further action at our partners meeting tomorrow pm https://t.co/pQmctNiwJi

[Tereza Hendl @TerezaHendl]

Such an important text. And thank you for problematizing Euro-Western-centric health systems and knowledges. Some of us have raised that many Euro-Eastern knowledges are commonly dismissed, thus I so appreciate the distinction made and will use your terminology and cite this work

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

@BenjamBlack you may be interested?

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

A lot of forthright speaking in this paper about #Epistemicide & #PlanetaryHealth. Co written with 3 Indigenous experts. So grateful @PLOSGPH had the insight and courage to publish it. @paimadhu @JuliaE_Robinson @DrNicoleRedvers @drmattjharris https://t.co/xfV5x3QiaB

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

@NaiduThirusha

[Nicole Redvers @DrNicoleRedvers]

We call it out in this paper: Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems @ph_alliance @SchulichMedDent @UN4Indigenous @IPRightsIntl @PLOSGPH @FAOclimate @UNFCCC @WHO @courtghoward @WesternU @RenzoGuinto https://t.co/rhi2bv8eCX

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

This is an incisive piece published today, that looks at biomedical inequity at the roots of knowledge production. From the individual to #planetaryhealth and taking into account #ecology.
#decolonization https://t.co/xfV5x3QQ09

[Thirusha Naidu🇿🇦🇨🇦 @NaiduThirusha]

Clear and POWERFUL voices of @SaleemRazack @RicharLisa
@suntoshpillay on the occult, insidious, kaleidoscopic & ubiquitous epistemic violence in medical curriculum. Echoes Said Spivak and @DocAmali
Your must-read in #meded 2024
https://t.co/IIjW8VCo8v

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

Interesting study findings regarding why some people got #covid and some didn't

#LongCovid

https://t.co/dg0wbifx0i

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

Excited to take part in this transformational learning based medical education session at St George's Medical School tomorrow on disrupting coloniality in knowledge production #MedEd

[Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali]

Supporting workers with #LongCovid to sustain work: what do we know and what next?

From the Society of Occupational Medicine - seminar next Tuesday

Free for all

https://t.co/DGGSh0Kb4s