Rick Lesaar
The intersection of health and communications; on strategies to make global health and development efforts more effective and more widely and fully understood.
Actions are a potent form of communication, as demonstrated by the Trump Administration’s defunding of WHO, dismantling of USAID, and decimation of HHS, NIH, CDC, FDA, and more. The result, in all of these cases, is that people will die, and the communication is those taking these actions simply do not care.
Read MoreAs the CDC’s new director, Rochelle Walensky will have an enormous job fighting the COVID epidemic.
A different –but intricately related– job will be restoring CDC’s scientific independence and public standing.
Here are four suggestions to help rehabilitate the agency’s image and reputation.
Read MoreCDC does a remarkable and laudable job of influenza surveillance. Still, could it be improved? Maybe, yes…and probably, not.
Read MoreA look at the words we use to describe the risk / chance / chances / odds / likelihood / possibility / probability of contracting infectious diseases.
Read MoreThe need to differentiate Results from Activity and Enumeration and why how NGOs and GOs can best keep faith with all of their stakeholders.
Read MoreLooking at 18, prominent, global health organizations to see what social media they are using and what levels of engagement they achieve.
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