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Kellie O’Callaghan

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Lived Experience, Patient & Community Engagement 🧩 Governance & Regional Development 🔗 Wayfinding 💭 Chair, Regional Development Australia - Gippsland 🦘 Chair, Mental Health & Wellbeing IRB 💬 Mayor, Emeritus 👩‍⚖️ Gunaikurnai Land, Gippsland Australia 🏡

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Today, our thoughts remain with the victims of the horrific terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, their families and loved ones, who are grieving such a profound and senseless loss

Sunday, 21 December 2025 has been recognised as a National Day of Reflection

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#BondiBeach

21.12.2025 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💬 Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into #paracetamol. Have researchers found the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs?

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#Health
#Research
#MedSky

25.06.2025 03:34 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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💬 is climate change linked to dangerous #sleep #apnea?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#Codesign #Collaboration
#MedSky

25.06.2025 03:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Gut Microbiome Study Links #ParkinsonsDisease to Environmental Chemicals

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#Codesign #Collaboration
#MedSky

25.06.2025 03:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you to Senator Dr. Jess Walsh & Tony Cantwell & the Committee for Gippsland team for the invitation to be part of the Net Zero Economy Authority roundtable with a great group of Gippsland stakeholders.

#RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #EnergyTransition #EconomicDevelopment

15.03.2025 09:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great to spend time with the Net Zero Economy Authority in Gippsland last week. Always appreciate the opportunity to discuss our region’s energy transformation.

#RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #Regions #EnergyTransition #RegionalTourism #RegionalHealth #EconomicDevelopment

15.03.2025 09:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Neuroimaging study reveals viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth
#Research
#MedSky

15.03.2025 09:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Income, education, and the clustering of risk in #cardiovascular disease in the US

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#MedSky

15.03.2025 09:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Consumption of Red Versus White Wine and Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

🔗 www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#MedSky

15.03.2025 09:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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💭 Experiencing 5 or more blistering sunburns between ages 15 & 20 increases one’s melanoma risk by 80% & nonmelanoma skin cancer risk by 68%

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research
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15.03.2025 09:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It was an absolute pleasure to host the RWAV - Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Conference sub-theme "Working Together, Designing, and Innovating for Workforce Sustainability."

#RWAVConference2025 #DreamingBig #DrivingChange #RuralHealth #WorkforceSustainability

26.02.2025 16:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great to see Gippsland so strongly represented in the enthusiastic audience for the first Q&A of 2025.

A one-on-one with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.

It was fantastic to be in the audience for this discussion

#RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #EconomicDevelopment

24.02.2025 16:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An absolutely brilliant few days partnering with Rural Workforce Agency Victoria team.

Thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to host the #Workforce panel discussions at #RWAVConference2025

#RuralHealth #MentalHealth #PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement

23.02.2025 01:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Latest in a series of studies showing that milk is a highly effective drug-delivery vehicle.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#MedSky

16.02.2025 02:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our Regional Development Australia Gippsland work is informed by opportunities for economic growth and development in our region

Always an absolute pleasure to spend time with the Australian Hydrogen Council team

#RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #Gippsland #RDA #EnergyTransition #EconomicDevelopment

14.02.2025 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RWAV Conference Join us as we bring together health professionals, service leaders, and policymakers to tackle the most pressing challenges in rural and regional healthcare. This year promises to inspire and drive

When: 19–21 February 2025
Where: All Seasons Resort Hotel, Bendigo

Don’t miss this essential conversation on shaping the future of rural healthcare!

Register now: bit.ly/3ZtQXgk

14.02.2025 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Looking forward to hosting this richly informed conversation "Working together, designing & innovating for workforce sustainability" at the RWAV Conference 2025

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Collaboration
#MedSky

14.02.2025 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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💭 “They Only Silence the Truth”: COVID-19 retractions and the politicization of science

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
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14.02.2025 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 While music’s effects on emotion are widely appreciated, its effects on cognition are less understood

Your lo-fi study playlist might actually help you focus

tinyurl.com/2usj23f5

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research
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14.02.2025 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭Maternal climate-related exposures and prolonged pregnancy: Findings from a statewide population-based cohort study in Western Australia

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RegionalHealth
#Research
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11.02.2025 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Digoxin for reduction of circulating tumor cell cluster size in metastatic breast cancer: a proof-of-concept trial

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research
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11.02.2025 10:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance & disease resistance

Genes in bats that protect them from viruses could lead to new approaches to combat viral diseases.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#Health
#Research
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11.02.2025 00:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Engineered commensals for targeted nose-to-brain drug delivery.

Bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains of mice.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#Health
#Research
#MedSky

11.02.2025 00:39 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How to sell your science without selling out
A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research
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06.02.2025 23:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours Lab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response.

💭 How to trick the immune system into attacking tumours
Lab-grown viruses make cancer cells resemble pig tissue, provoking an organ-rejection response.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth
#Research
#MedSky

26.01.2025 23:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Study finds gender gap with children when it comes to negotiating

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#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#Codesign #Collaboration
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26.01.2025 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The associations of positive and negative mental well-being with physical activity during the COVID-19 across late adulthood - BMC Public Health Background Mental well-being (MWB) may play an important role in physical activity (PA) behavior, but the independent associations of affective MWB indicators and depressive symptoms with PA are spars...

💭 The associations of positive and negative mental well-being with physical activity during the COVID-19 across late adulthood

tinyurl.com/2az57kcv

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth #RegionalHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials

#MedSky

26.01.2025 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations, Neale Daniher AO on being named the 2025 Australian of the Year!

Your tireless efforts in raising money and awareness to find a cure for MND have given hope to the thousands of other Australians.

25.01.2025 10:47 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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💭 Medical conditions that deprive testes of oxygen may be contributing to decline in male fertility

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PatientExperience #LivedExperience #PatientEngagement
#CommunityEngagement #Health #RuralHealth
#Research #ClinicalTrials
#Codesign #Collaboration
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25.01.2025 00:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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$6.35 million from the Australian Government’s Growing Regions Program for the brilliant Gippsland Lakes Shared Community Hub development in Paynesville.

Growing Regions Program tinyurl.com/mryzzkyy

#RegionalDevelopmentAustralia #RDAGippsland #Gippsland #Tourism #EconomicDevelopment

25.01.2025 00:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0