Why Twitter Can Be Useful In Travel Medicine
Twitter is a great source of medical and health information. Yes I know, this may sound obvious but many medical professionals are unfamiliar with the benefits of social media and I still hear lots of misconceptions - like “Twitter is just for chitchat”.
Twitter has proven itself as the go-to service in emergencies like earthquakes, floods and bushfires, and in that perspective it’s odd that in the quickly changing field of travel medicine, Twitter has not yet been discovered on a large scale.
So who are on Twitter? Here are some random examples of organisations that I know tweet about global health topics:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: @CDCgov
- World Health Organisation: @whonews
- The UK National Travel Health Network and Centre: @NaTHNaC
- UK Foreign Office: @fcotravel
- United Nations: @UN_News_Centre
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: @LSTMnews
- Tropical Medicine & International Health: @TropMed_IntHlth
- Doctors Without Borders: @MSF_USA
Social media are not the right place to discuss patient cases. The closed ISTM email listserv is an example of an appropriate forum for privacy sensitive information exchange.
For information about disease outbreaks, the latest research, health conference updates, and travel health tips, the real-time Twitter service is useful.
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slightlymoving said:
Do you have a twitter list set up for global health/travel med? Be great to share here too if you do. :)
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