Merryn Gott (she/her)

Don’t miss this PCPLD conference on 19th June. Best conference you’ll go to this year!
Hosted by my team at Kingston University
Early bird tickets extended to 30th April

Register:
bit.ly/4chvf3n

Ten PERCENT??

Dying for Beginners: An Interview with Kathryn Mannix - Good Grief IN PERSON at 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB We are excited to welcome to Bristol Dr Kathryn Mannix, palliative care doctor and therapist, and best-selling author. Since taking early retirement fro...

Coming soon: 'Dying for Beginners: An interview with @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social'

📆9 May 2025, 12-1pm
🏢University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB

Join us for this special event to mark #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek

www.goodgrieffest.com/events/dying...

@bristoluni.bsky.social

Hīkoi to defend gender-affirming healthcare in Wellington. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids

Great opportunity 👇

Let them eat Marmite sandwiches | E-Tangata “Despite producing enough food to feed 40 million people annually, Aotearoa allows its most vulnerable tamariki to go hungry. Food insecurity here is one of the worst in the OECD, and disproportionate...

“Despite producing enough food to feed 40 million people annually, Aotearoa allows its most vulnerable tamariki to go hungry. Food insecurity here is one of the worst in the OECD, and disproportionately affects Māori and Pasifika children.” — Dr Madeline Shelling.

Some good news with your coffee this morning folks? 🙌

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

“Quite often institutionalised racism is done by accident, but this is a purposeful, deliberate, known act of institutionalised racism”

- Dr Nina Scott on Minister removing health equity funding from bowel cancer screening.

archive.ph/4tCW8

#WendellBerry 🌱

Will be great to see you ☺️

Map of New Zealand with Kathryn's tour dates written across the ocean.

New Zealand Tour Dates - the full list!

I’ve been invited on a tour of Aotearoa NZ by
ANZSPM and Hospice NZ. I’m grateful for their hard work in arranging this trip.

Here’s where I’m going, a list of professional and public events, and ticket links for individual events.

Tell your Kiwi pals.

In 2018, 20% of trans people in Aotearoa had avoided seeing a doctor because of fear about how they'd be treated for their gender. In 2022, that had dropped to 11%! There's been so much work that has gone into this - and tho there are other barriers, I think this is a win we should celebrate

One in five trans and non-binary people threatened with physical violence Trans and non-binary New Zealanders say they have been threatened in the street and run off the road on their bikes.

Good news everyone. Counting Ourselves 2022 has been released! Such an invaluable document. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Read our latest publication here ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article...

It was written a while ago when there was more hope and positive change in our research sector but it is very relevant within the current climate we are working in

Amazing!

There's still time to submit.
Even just a couple of sentences expressing your opposition to this heinous bill - it all adds up.

Please.

#NZpol

"Owning up to our troubled past requires guts and grit. No one ever said it would be easy. But it is an essential step in the process of maturing as a society."

The TPB is part of a naked appeal by ACT to all who'd prefer we remain stunted in our national growth.

Get a submission in TODAY!

Addressing Racial and Ethnic Bias in Pulse Oximeters This Viewpoint discusses the racial and ethnic bias of pulse oximetry devices and presents interdisciplinary proposals to address it.

"Despite the problem of #racial and #ethnic #bias being known for decades, global use of pulse oximetry continues to increase, and it is incorporated into risk scores, triage algorithms, and artificial intelligence." #AI

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This thread is so important.

Just take 5 mins to write that you oppose X bill. If you need, cut and paste a few lines from someone else’s work.

But KEY message- lots of really smart people will use their expertise to articulate complex things well, your job is to simply state your position.

Transgender children deserve access to healthcare This is my submission to Manatū Hauora's consultation on the rights of transgender children in Aotearoa to access the healthcare they need.

I've just published my own submission to Manatū Hauora's consultation on the right of transgender children in Aotearoa to access the healthcare they need - consultation they have opened on request from Minister Reti, with no good justification.

It's long, but may be useful for your own submission.

Will be great to see you irl!

Did my submissions...used some of the amazing tools others have developed to help (thank you)...they weren't lengthy, but they are done.

Now need to do something calming as the need to do it makes me so angry.....

Overall yep...but I'm on study leave so will be in the UK before and after so shouldn't arrive totally jet lagged 😅

That’s great! I’ll be there…!

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