@melody_taba

Postdoctoral Research Fellow @Sydney_Uni @HealthLitLab | curious about youth health + social media + digital health literacy 🤔

Joined April 2020
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🎉 New PhD paper out now!   We co-designed 5 recommendations with young people and health communicators for social media health communication to young people!   Read the full article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 🧵for more ⬇️

Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory...

Background Social media became a key communication channel for public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for reaching younger populations less engaged with traditional channel...

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Study: social media health communication experiences of health communicators and young people during and after the #COVID19 emergency Recommendation: involve young people in future messaging to make communications consistently engaging @JulieLeask doi.org/10.1080/10810730.202…
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📴 Writing a story on the social media ban? 🔦 Chat to today's #EXPERTSPOTLIGHT @melody_taba from @Sydney_Uni 🤳 Melody is an expert in digital health literacy and young people 🔎 Contact details here: scimex.org/experts?a=1193252
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Many Australians encounter health information that is hard to understand, with 6 in 10 adults struggling with common health tasks. A/Prof Danielle Muscat is working to ensure health information is clear, accessible and culturally appropriate. 🔗 go.sydney.edu.au/xvpRpI
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Better ways to communicate health messages to young people croakey.org/better-ways-to-c… #publichealth
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"Young people expect engaging and trending content on social media, even from public health agencies. Health communicators can collaborate with influencers, use humour, memes and trends that young people use." croakey.org/better-ways-to-c…

Better ways to communicate health messages to young people

Introduction by Croakey: Social media is the main source of news for young people, according to the 2025 Australian Digital News Report,

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*New Publication* AYAC communication experiences- results of a structured questionnaire. Thank you to all who helped this reach young people Open access Please share doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2025.…
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🎉 New PhD paper out now!   We co-designed 5 recommendations with young people and health communicators for social media health communication to young people!   Read the full article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 🧵for more ⬇️

Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory...

Background Social media became a key communication channel for public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for reaching younger populations less engaged with traditional channel...

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Calling all researchers! 🚨 I'm guest editing a collection for BMC Pediatrics on 'lifestyle habits and their impact on children and adolescents' health'. If you have upcoming research in this area, please consider submitting! 📚 Please share widely #Pediatrics #AdolescentHealth
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“By incorporating a variety of messaging approaches and actively involving young people in content development, public health agencies can better reach and engage young people, including during public health emergencies.” Nice work @melody_taba and team! #publichealth
Melody Taba@melody_taba12 Mar 2025
🎉 New PhD paper out now!   We co-designed 5 recommendations with young people and health communicators for social media health communication to young people!   Read the full article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 🧵for more ⬇️

Co‐Designing a Framework for Social Media Health Communication to Young People: A Participatory...

Background Social media became a key communication channel for public health agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for reaching younger populations less engaged with traditional channel...

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Our final 5 recommendations for social media health communication to young people are:   1️⃣ Involve young people 🤝 2️⃣ Pitch at right level ✅ 3️⃣ Capture attention fast‼️ 4️⃣ Use current social media marketing 🤠 5️⃣ Engage more with the public 🤳🏽 🔗: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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We’ll be sharing these recommendations with health orgs in the coming months, but feel free to share to anyone who wants to improve #SocialMedia #HealthCommunication to #youth 💡 @HealthLitLab @syd_health @Sydney_Uni @digitalhealthn @julieayre32 @JulieLeask @KirstenMcCaffer
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Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @msk_health @wiserhealthcare @syd_health @sydFMH_EMCR @Sydney_Uni

Social Media Posts About Medical Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis

This cross-sectional study examines the tone and content of social media posts that discuss popular medical tests with potential for overdiagnosis or overuse.

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Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study finds theguardian.com/society/2025…

Social media influencers are ‘fearmongering’ to promote health tests with limited evidence, study...

Researchers warn of harms of overdiagnosis for generally healthy people as well as the cost of tests themselves

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Opportunity to get involved in health research! We’re looking for new members to join the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Consumer Panel (Co-SHeLL) for 2025! If you’re passionate about making health info easier to understand or have ideas on improving health systems, learn more ⬇️
Sydney Health Literacy Lab@HealthLitLab23 Jan 2025
Interested in shaping the future of health research? Join the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Consumer Panel (Co-SHeLL) and help us in our research! If you're a patient, consumer or community member, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe…
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Recruiting #adolescents for virtual clinical trials? Social media is key! Led by @RebeccaRaeside, Instagram was most effective, $3.9/participant. Now to navigate recruitment with social media ban in Aus! Health4Me MRFF-Funded Trial @JRedHeart @IAAHglobal pediatrics.jmir.org/2024/1/e…

Recruitment of Adolescents to Virtual Clinical Trials: Recruitment Results From the Health4Me...

Background: Preventive interventions are needed to provide targeted health support to adolescents to improve health behaviours. Engaging adolescents in preventive interventions remains a challenge,...

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🧵 Top 5 projects for 2024: 1. Heart Health Checks: link.springer.com/article/10… 2. Heart Yarning Tool: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 3. PhDs: preventioncentre.org.au/reso… 4. Health literacy editor: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… 5. New journal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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3. My 2 PhD students presenting their codesign projects at international conferences, with first Western Sydney Diabetes PhD paper for @SumathyRavi23 (ijic.org/articles/10.5334/ij…) & first podcast for @melody_taba with @TAPPCentre: preventioncentre.org.au/reso…
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Participants wanted! Are you an editor of a health or medical journal? 🏥🩺⚕️💊 Take part in our interview study on plain language summaries. Sign up link: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe… @KarenMGainey @Dmuscat92
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