The Surgeon General Joins Twitter!

by Andre Blackman on January 23, 2012

Just a quick heads up for you public health folks on Twitter – our Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, has joined the platform.

You can find her as @SGRegina

Did I mention that I am pretty excited about this and looking forward to seeing her updates? I wonder if she is actually behind the tweets or if it’s a team – or maybe both? Would certainly enjoy getting some of her thoughts on various public and community health issues (and maybe have her attend the next FastForward Health event?).

In any case, I’m also happy that she will be here in North Carolina next week to speak. Really want to meet her in person sometime soon – unfortunately I’ll be in DC for the Care Innovations Summit during her stay here. Next time!

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Introducing Dr. Farris Timimi – Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media

by Andre Blackman on January 16, 2012

Recently the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media brought on board a new Medical Director – Dr. Farris Timimi.  As part of the Advisory Board for the Center, I wanted to get to know Dr. Timimi a little better and share with you some insights into his work and his new role. We’re really happy to have him on board and I’m personally looking forward to seeing him move forward the mission of Mayo.

Here is a brief video where he touches on his interests in this new role:

 

You can also find Dr. Timimi here on Twitter! Now onward to the interview -

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Apply to Become an unNiched 2012 Fellow

January 6, 2012

The following is a guest post from Jayme Hummer. Jayme serves as Manager of Special Projects and Research at Enspektos, LLC. She also co-hosts the Path of the Blue Eye Project’s podcast, fyi: healthmarcomms. She has more than ten years of experience in research, project management, writing, editing, and publicity.   Part of the Path of the [...]

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Sustain or Die: The Rise of Public Health 2.0

January 5, 2012

  It is a fairly simple concept that has been coming back into my mind especially after reading The Blue Sweater – a book about the journey of Jaqueline Novogratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund. If we don’t make public health integrated into people’s lives and sustainable – we will continue to fail. Let me [...]

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APHA’s Policy Innovation Contest

December 20, 2011

The American Public Health Association recently launched a competition that gives health departments the opportunity to improve their capacity around health inequality policies. What’s up for grabs? Certainly nothing to yawn at (especially in this economic climate): According to the APHA site announcing the policy innovation contest: Between five and eight health departments will receive [...]

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RWJF Joins SXSW Accelerator Panel

December 19, 2011

  Remember back in October when Chris Hall introduced the SXSW Health Accelerator program for next year’s conference? I’m really looking forward to seeing what start-ups get to showcase their stuff. I’m even more excited about the increase in health focused innovations occurring at the biggest conference that I’ve ever attended. Last year was the [...]

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Upcoming: Digital Health Communications Extravaganza!

December 15, 2011

What do you get when you combine experts/thought leaders in the innovative spaces of health communications, a generous helping of research/public health practitioners and a sunny Florida? Why, you get the Digital Health Communications Extravaganza of course! Put together by my friend and colleague Jay Bernhardt (who I’ve interviewed before at a conference he put together [...]

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Commitments, Conversation and the Kardashians

December 5, 2011

The following is a guest post from the PreventObesity.net team, who last week’s  Partnership for a Healthier America’s (PHA) inaugural “Building a Healthier Future” summit, held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel here in Washington. The two-day event was jam-packed with newsworthy announcements and fun gossip, which we break down below. Moving Ahead In a keynote [...]

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Joining the #hchlitss Twitter Chat

December 4, 2011

Last Thursday evening I was honored to be a guest participant of the #hchlitss Twitter chat. The hashtag stands for Health Communications, Health Literacy and Social Sciences and was created by Kathleen Hoffman and RV Rikard (who both live here in North Carolina!). In being invited to the event, I thought about some relevant topics [...]

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World AIDS Day 2011

December 1, 2011

Today marks the beginning of the last month of the year, but it also is a reminder for us about the importance of bringing HIV/AIDS to an end. Today is World AIDS Day. A time for education and action regarding the disease that still is affecting many worldwide. Phil Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS [...]

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