

April 2025 International Research and Advocacy Roundup
Our International Roundup provides a brief snapshot of some of the ME/CFS research funding, clinical care and advocacy actions around the world in the last few months.
Read the latest in Emerge Australia news for ME/CFS and long COVID.
Our International Roundup provides a brief snapshot of some of the ME/CFS research funding, clinical care and advocacy actions around the world in the last few months.
I want to briefly address feedback from a few regarding quotes attributed to me in a recent article published in The Age and SMH about a machine-learning tool developed by researchers at University of Melbourne that can predict ME/CFS. I was reported as commenting that people with long COVID will largely recover over a period of
Published: 29 March 2025 Journalists Broede Carmody and Hannah Kennelly, discuss the potential for a new computational method designed to significantly improve the diagnosis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). The approach promises to provide more accurate, objective, and efficient diagnostics for this complex condition, which has long been difficult to identify through traditional methods.
Published: 14 March 2025 Saturday, 15 March marks International Long COVID Awareness Day. Five years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, many Australians are still battling its long-term effects. Journalist Jessica Bahr speaks with Long COVID sufferers and experts about the challenges they face as the world moves on. Emerge Australia’s CEO Anne Wilson
Read the full March Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! It has been an extremely hectic buildup to announcements out of Canberra regarding the Federal Election. Emerge Australia’s 2025 election campaign is being run in collaboration with Bridges & Pathways, Emerge Australia, MEANA, ME/CFS Australia and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Read the full February Newsletter Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! A warm welcome to everyone reading the Emerge Australia newsletter in 2025. Whether you have just heard of us and joined or whether you are longstanding members of the ME/CFS and long COVID communities, we are delighted to
Published: 12 February 2025 These Election Commitments unite Australian ME/CFS organisations around broad priorities for the sector. It sends a strong, coordinated message to MPs and Ministers. Participating organisations will use these Commitments to support their own advocacy efforts and lobbying for their priorities.
Published: 11 February 2025
Published: 18 January 2025 Journalist Zoe Simmons writes about medical gaslighting and medical misogyny in this powerful article drawing on her own experiences and including interviews from Australian model and actor Amelia Tang and actress and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) advocate Eliza Charley. Emerge Australia’s CEO Anne Wilson is quoted in the article discussing how rampant
Read the full December Newsletter Hello everyone and welcome to this final newsletter for 2024. This newsletter is filled with information on the latest Emerge Australia news and information on our holiday shut down. As we wrap up a successful year for Emerge Australia and our work on your behalf we look optimistically forward
The Emerge Australia team would like to give a heartfelt thank you to Dr Richard Schloeffel OAM as he retires from medical practice and steps down as Emerge Australia’s Medical Director. Appointed at the beginning of 2022, Dr Schloeffel has dedicated his time as Medical Director to the clinical education of GPs and advancing awareness
Hello to all our supporters and readers of the Emerge Australia newsletter! This is our second last newsletter for the year so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what has been a significant period of growth and resilience for our organisation. The Emerge Australia team has been hard at work, advancing our
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