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Amali Lokugamage @DocAmali

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

Joined May 2012
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I remember it well. I could barely speak with #longcovid vocal and speech issues at the time.
Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social@LongCovidSOS
13 Dec 2024
Replying to @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 longcovidsos.org/post/longco…
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Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social@LongCovidSOS
13 Dec 2024
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 longcovidsos.org/post/longco…
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My book The Heart in the Womb. Photo taken by Eva Rose, Norwegian birth photographer and doula at Birthrights Norge conference, Norway.
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ScienceOpen@Science_Open
6 Sep 2024
'Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems' a @PLOSGPH article on #ScienceOpen: scienceopen.com/document?vid…

Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems

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PHARM-LC: What role can Community Pharmacy play in supporting.... Kingstone T et al., published by NIHR Open Research, openresearch.nihr.ac.uk/arti…
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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 sciencealert.com/long-covid-…
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Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE@dunkleybent
16 Sep 2024
Looking forward to chairing the @NHS_RHO this group nhsrho.org/what-we-do/adviso… 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 nhsrho.org/what-we-do/adviso…

Maternal and Neonatal Health Working Group

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Tereza Hendl@TerezaHendl
3 Sep 2024
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
1 Sep 2024
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 journals.plos.org/globalpubl…
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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 journals.plos.org/globalpubl…
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@BenjamBlack you may be interested?
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@NaiduThirusha
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Nicole Redvers@DrNicoleRedvers
29 Aug 2024
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 dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…

Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems

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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 journals.plos.org/globalpubl…

Epistemicide, health systems, and planetary health: Re-centering Indigenous knowledge systems

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Thirusha Naidu🇿🇦🇨🇦@NaiduThirusha
13 Jul 2024
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 asmepublications.onlinelibra…

The violence of curriculum: Dismantling systemic racism, colonisation and indigenous erasure within...

The authors confront the coloniality, systemic racism and Indigenous erasure inherent in medical curricula and propose a way forward through pedagogies of love and shared humanity.

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Interesting study findings regarding why some people got #covid and some didn't #LongCovid theconversation.com/we-final…

We finally know why some people got COVID while others didn’t

In a human ‘challenge trial’ we deliberately infected volunteers with COVID to get the answer.

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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
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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 som.org.uk/civicrm/event/inf…
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Andy Hazel@Andy_Hazel
5 Jul 2024
Based on Labour’s shadow cabinet, 84% went to comprehensive schools, 10% went to private schools and 6% to state grammar schools. That would mean for the first time the cabinet closely reflected British society. theguardian.com/politics/liv…

Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor; former Tory chair says party faces ‘oblivion’ –...

Rachel Reeves becomes first woman to hold post in 800-years as Angela Rayner named secretary of state for levelling up

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Something I contributed to in the British Journal of GPs Life with other colleagues either affected with #LongCovid or allies that research longcovid. @BJGPjournal bjgplife.com/long-covid-why-…
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Scottish Perinatal Network@ScotPerinatal
19 Jun 2024
If you have given birth in the last 5 years and would like to share your experiences, @DrFeeleyRM and @KingsCollegeLon are carrying out a Birth Experience Study - scan the QR code in the image or head over to kcl.ac.uk/research/best-uk for more information.
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