Your Local Epidemiologist

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This is post 3 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. The goal is not to point fingers or assign blame, but to get a view from outside our bubble and understand how messages were perceived.

Media and Health Communication 81

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Whether it’s in the banking sector, health, communication, marketing, or entertainment, Big Data has permeated every aspect of our daily lives. Software Development Remains a Driving Force of Big Data. We are living in a data-oriented world where everyone seems obsessed with Big Data.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Photovoice uses photography and storytelling rather than the typical public health methods that use statistics and surveillance. It shows that art can be an essential tool for public health, said Douglas and exhibit curator Monica Ponder, an assistant professor of health communication at Howard University.

Mental Health and Public Health 95

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Your Local Epidemiologist

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This is post 2 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the Covid-19 vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. The goal is not to point fingers or lay blame, but rather get a view from outside our bubble to see how messages were perceived.

Herd Immunity 75

Herd Immunity Health Literacy Health Communication 75

Public Healthy

APRIL 17, 2019

If you don’t believe me, have a look at the CDC’s Everyday Words for Public Health Communication ; you’ll be surprised just how much of what we say is either misunderstood or not understood at all by those outside of our field. I’ve been soaked in this world long enough now that I often forget how to talk like a normal person.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

During the last two weeks, we’ve seen an avalanche of policies directed at dismantling our already hurting infrastructure for public health.

Mental Health and Public Health 69

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Data specificity and compassionate communication are critical to understanding how environments, genetics, and our complicated world interact with each other. They are also crucial to understanding whether all people are being served by health systems. This is what public health means.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

Public health communications and advocacy have been Keeves’ bread and butter since her days at SPH when she served as a teaching assistant for the Strategies in Public Health Advocacy course.

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations 72

Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations Media and Health Communication Ageing and Health Health Communication 72

Your Local Epidemiologist

JANUARY 24, 2025

administration wasted no time hitting the pause button on almost everything in public health: communications, data, hiring, traveling. This doesn’t just affect careers; it impacts the systems that keep our communities healthy and safe. It’s been a week—a week of confusion, chaos, and concern. The new U.S.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This is our final post in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. If you talk to people about why they lost trust in public health during the pandemic, there is one topic that comes up over and over again: mandates.

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Health Literacy Health Communication 65

NPR Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding. Image credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg)

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sonya Arundar said she received an email Saturday evening saying she was being let go from her job as a health communicator at the Public Health Infrastructure Center. Uncertainty over USAIDs global health aid impacts Atlanta-based nonprofits Prior to being hired as a full-time employee on Dec.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

Since 2020, the school community has studied and highlighted the broader lessons this global crisis has taught usincluding the need for greater investment in public health infrastructure; clear, consistent, and tailored health communication and messaging; and a rebuilding of trust in science , largely fractured by an ever-increasing partisan divide.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Jessica Valenti, author of the newsletter Abortion, Every Day , is hosting these guidelines and related resources on contraception, antiretroviral drugs, substance use, intersex health, intimate partner violence, and LGBTQ youth reports. The report was first published on July 1, 1960.

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