The Importance of Journalism to Public Health: 10 Years After SARS How Are We...
Risk communication in public health with Julie Leask If a health scare manifested itself in the world and there were no journalists to cover the story, what would the impact on the public be? That is a...
View ArticlePublic Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks
The spark that lit a fire… Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social media for change and impact, but every so often something...
View ArticleAttack on Anti-vac - Toronto Public Health vs. Jenny Mcarthy
Reblogged from Public Health and Social Media: I wanted to keep quiet on this issue, being the pioneer and former voice of Toronto Public Health's Twitter for 3 years...but I think in the spirit of...
View ArticleDesigning for Empathy and Health
Seeing Inside Others When does common sense make little sense? How do we sense-make evidence when it seems to make little sense? The answers could lie in getting inside the heads of those we seek to...
View ArticleSocial Marketing/ Social Media Blowback And eHealth Communication Etiquette
Those of us working at that interface between the professional and public worlds of health have to wear many hats. We need to be good at communicating in ways that gain respect within our...
View ArticleSocial Marketing, Marketers and Responsibility
Set Godin Seth Godin, a business and marketing thought-leader and someone I’ve written on before, posed the question on his blog: Are marketer’s responsible for what they promote? « The power of...
View ArticleSocial Media / Social Activism Redux: Can we Learn from Behaviour Change...
What started as a simple column post a column on October 4th in the New Yorker has really turned into a firestorm of discussion over the last few days (reflecting a building crescendo of discontent and...
View ArticleThe Know-Do Gap in Knowledge Translation Human Resources
Lots of thinking, not as much doing Knowledge translation is about putting evidence into practice, but what about putting practices into place that support evidence creation and the people who are in...
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