Health professionals all over the world are focused on communication about the COVID vaccines. As nice as it would be to have a one-size-fits-all way to communicate about the vaccine, to everybody, that would work 100% of the time, we know that’s not realistic. Adding to the complexity, there’s also a strong emotional climate around […]
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Advancing health equity as an inside job
When it comes to health equity, professionals across the health sector are stopping and asking hard questions of ourselves. How are we as practitioners contributing to health inequities, despite our best intentions? How do our institutions unwittingly present barriers to equitable care? Health inequities don’t just happen, they’re not inevitable. They’re created and maintained, often […]
Episode #90 Building momentum for health equity in health communication
This podcast series was the subject of a recent article in the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. This is cool in its own right, especially because the article is about disrupting deficit perspectives. But what’s even better is the warm reception it’s gotten from people around the health sector. Find out what the […]
Episode #89 Dr. Jonas Attilus on humility and power in patient communication
“I feel like it’s normal for people to mistrust us.” In our first episode of the year, Physician Dr. Jonas Attilus shares stories about his practice, and talks about how he deals with issues of trust, humility, power and respect in his communication with his patients. Listen to the interview here and read the transcript […]
Putting health equity front and center in 2021
The profound public health crises around COVID-19 have brought longstanding social injustices to the attention of more people than ever. There are signs of new political and institutional will to act now to dismantle institutionalized inequalities–action that has been demanded by several generations of researchers, scholars, activists and leaders around the globe. However you define […]
Episode #88 Communicating about vaccines? Here’s 4 reflective practice prompts
It’s Christmas, I know. But my recent piece about this topic was so popular, I wanted our very next episode to be about it. Here, you’ll learn 4 ways to stop and think about whatever vaccine communication you’re doing – to make sure you’re saying what you mean to say. Listen or read the transcript […]