🆕 NEW! A FREE guide to setting up a Youth Advisory Group 👏Designed by @rebeccaraeside.bsky.social @allysontodd.bsky.social 🙌🏽 With Masters Students Tsun Tsang & Shun Wong 📊 Case study from @sisijia.bsky.social 📲 Download at youthwelllab.com/hapyus → tap “Researcher Resources”
Dr Rebecca Raeside (she/her)
@rebeccaraeside.bsky.social
Research Fellow | The University of Sydney Board Director | Australian Association for Adolescent Health Harnessing digital strategies to improve adolescent health and wellbeing
🌏 We’re heading to Auckland! We are excited to be on our way to the @isbnpa.bsky.social 2025 conference this week in Aotearoa, New Zealand, catch us on Thursday @rebeccaraeside.bsky.social @sisijia.bsky.social @allysontodd.bsky.social @stephaniepart.bsky.social
📺 Youth Well Lab on 9 News highlighting how digital environments shape heart health and why prevention matters 🔗 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4iJ... 📰 More: www.9news.com.au/national/con... #HeartWeek2025 @sisijia.bsky.social @rebeccaraeside.bsky.social @allysontodd.bsky.social
Vaping, technology, junk food: Fears younger generation could die earlier | 9 News Australia
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Thrilled that I was able to celebrate my PhD with my supervisor and colleagues ❤️ I feel so grateful to have had such an amazing experience with @youth-well-lab.bsky.social @stephaniepart.bsky.social @usydnursingschool.bsky.social Special thanks also to Julie Redfern and the SOLVE-CHD team!
'Eats for teens' allows 13-17 year olds to order off Uber Eats under their parents account.. but at what cost to their health? Regulation is needed to support young people to make healthy food choices in the digital food environment 📲 @publichealthaus.bsky.social @usydnursingschool.bsky.social
New Uber Eats feature risks fuelling unhealthy eating habits among young Australians www.croakey.org/new-uber-eat... #publichealth
Welcome to the official #SydneyNursingSchool Bluesky page! We’re excited to join this space and connect with our incredible community of students, faculty, alumni, and healthcare professionals.
Calling researchers! 🚨 I'm guest editing a collection for BMC Pediatrics 'lifestyle habits and their impact on children and adolescents' health'. If you have forthcoming research, please consider submitting. Submissions are open till 25 November. Please share! www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...
My latest state-of-the-art review published in @healthpromint.bsky.social provides insights to advance adolescent digital health promotion. Key takeaways: ✅ youth engagement is essential ✅ stronger digital governance is needed ✅ digital determinants must be considered doi.org/10.1093/heap...
A great read in @mja.com.au Insight+ today on the Aus social media ban - we need more evidence to understand what young people are seeing on social media and how this impacts them to inform policy insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/4/socia...
Social media needs a public health approach, not a blanket ban
Australia has passed new rules banning children under 16 years from social media, yet University
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Back online after a lovely summer break. Starting 2025 as a full-time Research Fellow with @stephaniepart.bsky.social at #SydneyNursingSchool 🤩
In the Health4Me RCT, 390 adolescents from across Australia enrolled in about 12 months using digital recruitment strategies. Key takeaways: ▶️ social media was effective and low-cost ▶️ need to build trust about health information on social media for adolescents pediatrics.jmir.org/2024/1/e62919/
Recruitment of Adolescents to Virtual Clinical Trials: Recruitment Results From the Health4Me Randomized Controlled Trial
Background: Preventive interventions are needed to provide targeted health support to adolescents to improve health behaviours. Engaging adolescents in preventive interventions remains a challenge, hi...
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Please read and share my new article with @croakeynews.bsky.social. This piece reflects views on why including youth voices in public health decision-making may improve health and wellbeing outcomes now and into the future. www.croakey.org/to-improve-h...
To improve health policies, programs and outcomes, young people must be at the table
Introduction by Croakey: In the second of a series of essays from the 2024 National Public Health Student Think Tank Competition,
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