Delivering Vital Health Information to the Public [Print This Page]
- Time: 2:00-3:15 p.m.
- Date: Thursday, Sept. 11
- Place: 100-A Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Technology is providing consumers with unprecedented access to health-related information. Disseminating the information that comes from both medical practitioners and the media is made more difficult both in understanding and trust. In this session health reporters and public health information officers will lead a discussion about the complicated roles of journalists and sources in this new environment and what the future may hold. While this relationship can be both friendly and antagonistic, the ultimate goal is to present citizens with timely, helpful health information that everyone can understand.
This session is sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Lecture Series.
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Moderator: Susan Dentzer
Editor in Chief
Health Affairs
Susan Dentzer is the editor in chief of Health Affairs, the nation's leading journal of health policy, and an on-air analyst on health issues with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Health Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal that appears bimonthly in print with additional online entries published weekly at www.healthaffairs.org. Dentzer is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2007 American Society on Aging National Media Award, the 2005 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists, CINE (Celebrating Excellence in Film and Video) Golden Eagle and a New York Festival award. She has also received a first-place Gracie Allen award for public television news from American Women in Radio and Television, a 2003 Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals and the 2000 Robinson Electronic Media Award from the American Psychiatric Association. Dentzer's writing has earned her several fellowships, including a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a U.S.-Japan Leadership Program Fellow. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dentzer holds an honorary master of arts degree from Dartmouth and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio.
Discussion Leaders:
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John T. Burklow
Associate Director for Communications and Public Liaison
National Institutes of Health
John Burklow is the associate director for communications and public liaison at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the primary medical research agency in the Federal government. NIH's annual budget is more than $29 billion, which supports a large research facility in Bethesda, Md., and more than 325,000 researchers throughout the United States and around the world. Burklow oversees the news media, editorial operations, online communications, special projects and NIH visitor center functions. He provides leadership for communications and public liaison issues and opportunities, working closely with communications offices in each of the NIH's 27 institutes and centers and leading trans-NIH communications projects. Burklow is also the NIH liaison to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Affairs. He has published a number of articles on a range of topics, including communicating to older Americans, age bias in health care treatment, cancer survivors, cancer prevention among African Americans, and older women and mammograms. Burklow is a contributing editor to Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner's Guide, also known as the "Pink Book," a guide widely used throughout communications offices, health departments and universities around the world. He holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Southern Illinois University and a master's degree in public health education from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
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Glen Nowak
Chief of Media Relations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Glen Nowak is the chief of media relations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this position, he manages CDC's Division of Media Relations and serves as the media relations adviser to CDC's senior management. Prior to this appointment in June 2004, Nowak served for five years as the associate director for communications at the National Immunization Program at the CDC. He was responsible for a wide range of communications activities, including public information and education campaigns to increase awareness and adoption of immunization recommendations, vaccine safety-related communications and issues management, Web sites, media relations, and communication research related to vaccines and immunizations. Previously, Nowak was an associate professor of advertising and communication at the University of Georgia. In the past 15 years, he has authored or co-authored a number of peer-reviewed journal articles on communications practices, social marketing and health communications. In 2003, the CDC/ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) Communicators' Roundtable presented Nowak with its Excellence in Health Communications Award for his lifetime achievements in communication and exemplary service. Nowak holds bachelor degrees in economics and communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in addition to a master's degree in journalism and a doctorate in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Mike Stobbe
Health Reporter
The Associated Press
Mike Stobbe has been a health reporter for the past 19 years and currently covers the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for The Associated Press. Previously, he covered health care and medicine at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, The Florida Times-Union and at The Flint Journal in Michigan. Stobbe has a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina and two master's degrees: one in public health from the University of Michigan and another in journalism from Northwestern University. He has won several awards for his work and has served on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists since 2000.
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About the Futures Forum
Top journalists, advertisers and thought leaders will lead numerous interactive sessions during the Sept. 11 Futures Forum, a day of cutting-edge discussions about the next century of journalism. Ethics, convergence and politics are just a few of the many hot topics that will be explored in this diverse program dedicated to challenging industry thinking and visualizing possibilities for the future. Sessions will be 75 minutes long and held concurrently with others on the schedule. Full schedules will be available during on-site check in during the Sept. 10-12 celebration.
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