Yvette Efevbera -Unlocking Progress in Health: What Celebrity Stories Remind Us About Giving Birth in America
Dr. Yvette Efevbera Unlocking Progress in Health: What Celebrity Stories Remind Us About Giving Birth in America Introduction Childbirth should not be a life-threatening experience. But for so many women around the world, especially those who look like me, it is. I’ll never forget the first time I read Serena William’s story. “I almost died […]
Yvette Efevbera -Unlocking Progress in Health: Mariama’s Story – the Case Against Child Marriage
Dr. Yvette Efevbera Unlocking Progress in Health: Mariama’s Story – the Case Against Child Marriage Photo by Dotun Sangoleye on Unsplash Mariama, a Soussou1 woman living in Guinea, West Africa, had a hard life growing up. Her parents divorced when she was young, and after enduring abuse from her mother, she was moved to her […]
Ritual Communication: 5 Unconventional Lessons Public Health Can Learn from Twitch Streamers
Communication is more than information. “Ritual” communication focuses on relationships and feelings. This might be just what health communication needs in the pandemic era.
Kate Okorie – Drought and Period Poverty: In Conversation With Anita Soina, Global Youth Champion for the UN-hosted Sanitation and Water for All
Kenya has been hit by its worst drought in forty years. Anita Soina provides insight into how the extreme weather condition has worsened period poverty, a significant public health challenge in the East African country.
Cullen Truett – The Gambit: Is Techquity Possible?
Techquity has become the a priori underpinning of the health tech industry. It refers to the idea that healthcare tech is a driver of equitable care when designed appropriately.
Devin Hursey – HIV Criminalization: Creating an AIDS Predator
I’m continuing a series exploring the relationship between community and public health institutions, with a particular focus on trust. If we have learned nothing else from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have learned that our health is intricately connected with the health of other members of our community. Because of this fact, it is vitally important that communities can trust public health information and interventions enacted by public health institutions.
Knowledge Communities: 6 Questions Drag Race Spoilers Can Answer for Public Health Communication
Knowledge communities contrast with expert models of communication. Open, non-hierarchical, and fun, this might just be what public health needs in the social media era.
Yvette Efevbera -Unlocking Progress in Health: My Story – The Untapped Potential of the Sabbatical
Dr. Yvette Efevbera Unlocking Progress in Health: My Story – The Untapped Potential of the Sabbatical Introduction Over the past few years, women leaders – especially women leaders of color – have been leaving the workplace in droves. It’s not surprising, as women of color are “more ambitious despite getting less support” in their professional […]
Kate Okorie – Nigeria’s “Soot” City: In Conversation with Dr Bieye Briggs, Executive Director, Centre for Environmental and Public Health
Black soot in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt city has increased mortality rates by 30%. In this interview, we discuss how the city has become a poster child for air pollution globally and the health consequences of air pollution as evidenced among residents.
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