I was honored to present a Pediatric Grand Rounds today for the UF College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. My talk was titled, “Pediatrics 2.0: Digital Health Promotion for Behavior Change” and it explored youth new media trends and digital applications for pediatric health promotion interventions. Great questions and discussion followed. I hope that many [...]
I recently gave a talk at the SOPHE 2013 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida called Using Social Media for Professional Advancement. In the spirit of my new dog, Juliet, the talk was subtitled, “How to go 2.0 without stepping in #2.” Within the talk I share detailed tips from social media gurus on how to [...]
The Digital Health Communication Extravaganza (DHCX) 2013 is less than 6 weeks away. I hope you can join us for what is sure to me another insight-inducing experience. Register at http://dhcx.org if you haven’t already. Here is a link to my favorite talk from DHCX 2012. It is one of my mentors, Dr. Vic Strecher, [...]
DHCX 2012 was an enormous success! More than 200 registered participants heard world-class speakers present brilliant insights and science and also offered profound inspiration for our work. We also enjoyed world-class facilities, food, and fun with great entertainment to compliment our learning. Plans are already underway for DHCX 2013 and registration, hotel reservations, and the [...]
I am proud to announce the creation of my new consulting and communication company, Digital Health Impact, Inc. We intend to revolutionize health by integrating the reach and ubiquity of new media with the theory and science of health communication and marketing. We work with governmental, academic, non-profit, and for-profit clients to harness the power [...]
I live in a town in “North-Central Florida” called Gainesville, which is home to the University of Florida. Gainesville is the hometown to a number of famous people including Bo Diddley, Darrell Hammond, and Michael Connelly (according to Wikipedia). It is also the hometown to a lesser-known but far wealthier celebrity, Craig Silverstein, Google’s chief [...]
Like many Americans, I closely followed the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the “Economic Stimulus Plan.” As a public health professional, I am keenly interested in the parts of the stimulus bill that promote health, such as the Prevention and Wellness Fund, which Jeanne Lambert wrote about as a [...]
Everyone knows that health communication and marketing can raise awareness about health issues and promote prevention behaviors. But did you know that health communication and social media marketing plays a critical role in responding to outbreaks? Right now, CDC is participating in a unique, interagency collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]
Wikipedia describes a social network as “a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, conflict, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission, or airline routes. The resulting structures are often [...]
To help prepare for National HIV Testing Day (June 27, 2008), AIDS.gov is sponsoring a Webinar for Bloggers (sometimes called a ‘blogginar’) on Tuesday, June 17th at 2:00pm eastern time. Beginning with a similar webinar last year, AIDS.gov has been communicating directly with bloggers so they can help encourage their readers to get tested. Since [...]