Dr Ashley Ng

Recently the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD) celebrated their 10th anniversary. I was honoured to be invited to share what this significant milestone meant for me as a person living with diabetes at their webinar event. The more I reflected on this, the more I realised the enormous ripple effect that research Read more

Peer support is a tricky and funny thing within the diabetes community. It exists in various forms; in person meetings, casual catch ups, to online forums and organised tweetchats. Peer support holds different meaning for each person. Some people I’ve spoken to think it’s unnecessary, many sing their praises and others see it as this Read more

Diabetes management is more than just the physical health behaviours like blood glucose monitoring and healthy habits. There’s the mental and emotional wellbeing aspect of it that we don’t often talk about too. That’s why I’m glad that the focus of National Diabetes Week this year is on mental health and diabetes. Read more

In Melbourne, we’re back in lockdown for another six weeks. Lockdown 2.0 feels tougher than the first one with more panic and stress after seeing the rise in COVID19 cases. How are you coping? Read more

Recently, I transitioned to a different diabetes clinic as I needed a team that was in one location and within the public system. The move to a new clinic felt like starting a new school. I was excited and nervous to meet my new team, while getting hopelessly lost in the hospital maze and appointment Read more

Part of my research interests revolves around mobile health and integrating that into mainstream healthcare system. Mobile health can include things like online peer support, online platforms used to deliver health services and telehealth. For years, there has been advocacy for telehealth subsidises and its integration into metropolitan hospitals. And for years, it’s been “too Read more