NC Health News

JANUARY 11, 2025

The Watchdog reached out directly to Lott and tried to speak to her through Mission Health communications but did not receive responses. The Watchdog reached out directly to Jones and tried to speak to him through Mission Health communications but did not receive responses.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Last week, I had the privilege of attending a White House convening of public health communication and advocacy experts. Hearing stories from people across the country healthcare workers, teachers, community leaders, pastors, caregivers, and many others was profoundly inspiring. Science isnt finished until its communicated.

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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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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.

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JPHMP Direct

APRIL 10, 2025

Check out this new podcast where she shares her experiences and insights on public health communications. The post Amplifying Public Health Voices: Meet Our New Intern Karsen DeWeese first appeared on JPHMP Direct. Meet our new intern Karsen DeWeese, an MPH student at Kansas State University.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2025

Co-hosted a community listening session to understand community health information needs better. Represented the New York YLE community at the White House to discuss how to continue building trust and support public health communication.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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