Last night, I received an email from our Chief Medical Office, Dr. J. Nwando Olayiwola concerning the National HIV Testing Day Chat Series on Twitter. It is a weeklong set of chats with interesting speakers and an interesting set of topics. Various people from CHC will participate in some of the chats, and I’m disappointed that I missed a couple of the early chats. I realize that not everyone reading this blog is used to TweetChats, so I’m going to…
Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published a report, Culturally Appropriate Storytelling to Improve Blood Pressure. Their research found: African-Americans with uncontrolled high blood pressure benefited from an intervention using DVDs of real patients’ stories of how they dealt with their chronic disease. It has generated a lot of interesting discussions. Should this research be replicated in different ways? Would it work with other communities? Other health conditions? Other ways of distributing the stories? Could stories of successfully controlling high…
Well, here we are. My first blog post as Social Media Manager for Community Health Center’s new blog, Healthy Communities Online. I’ve been blogging for many years with a lot of my focus on politics, education and journalism. Much of this has really been around how to build healthy communities online, although I may not have been thinking about it in these terms as I was writing. When I heard that Community Health Centers, Inc. was looking for a social…