Science on Social Media: How to Enter the Arena?

How clinicians can use social media to educate, advocate and improve diabetes care

Watch the full video on YouTube. In this episode of EASD TV, Prof. Partha Kar discusses the opportunities and challenges of social media in healthcare.

The conversation explores how clinicians can use platforms like X, LinkedIn and Substack to share evidence-based information, learn from people living with diabetes and influence policy and implementation in healthcare systems.

Topics discussed include:

• Tackling misinformation and harmful health narratives online
• The role of social media in diabetes advocacy and patient engagement
• Why clinicians should not abandon contested digital spaces
• Navigating online abuse, racism and misinformation
• Using social media to improve access to CGM technology
• The importance of implementation science in diabetes care
• Global inequalities in access to diabetes technologies and treatments

Featured speaker:

1. Partha Kar - Consultant Diabetologist, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes at NHS England

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