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I morgen, fredag, skal jeg til symposium om web-tv/online video i kultur- og museumsformidling. Vi skal blandt andet inspireres af garvede web-videofolk folk fra Tate og MoMA, samt online-videomagasinet cranetv. Desuden vil vi blive præsenteret for nogle danske eksempler på brug af web-tv (dog udenfor en museumskontekst). Program og deltagerliste findes her. Symposiet er arrangeret af Statens Museum for […]

At an internal workshop here at Medical Museion, we recently discussed the problematic aspects of distributing objects from the collection on the web. The web surely poses a great opportunity for museums to get stuff out there and thereby to reach a broader audience – hopefully then inspiring them to an actual museum visit – […]

More and more public health related journals are expanding their online universes with blogs. Eg. BMJ and PLoS have blogs associated to their journals. Now one of the smaller journals of Public Health has also started a blog. The International Journal of Public Health’s blog is made as a joint venture with the Swiss School […]

Public health history is a part of public health sciences. And the history of public health holds many great stories relevant for blogging. I just came across this blog about “the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery”. The blog is called The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice and is written by Lindsey Fitzharris, a medical historian at Queen Mary, University […]

“… and how we get feedback from the population”. This sentence is the last remark in a short video on how Twitter might just change how we do Public Health. I love the sentence. It refers to how Twitter is a new tool in Public Health research, but also a tool for us to get […]

A ‘Humanities Perspective on Health’. I must admit that my prejudice about humanities flourished in my head when I last week decided to attend the ‘Institute day’ of the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication (MCC) at the Faculty of Humanities at University of Copenhagen. The headline for the event was “Humanities perspective on Health”. […]

I et lille rum midt inde i Rigshospitalets enorme bygningskompleks sidder en ung mand, og sprinter på en uddateret motionscykel. Han er omgivet af andre mænd i grønne bukser og hvide T-shirts, som skiftevis tager blodprøver og hepper højlydt eftersom belastningen i pedalerne øges. I januar var jeg vidne til dette lettere surrealistiske optrin, da […]

I love when I come across people, who in a public health perspective are high ranking and hold influential positions in public health – and who blog! It proves that blogging is for all, whether you’re a public health student or the dean of a School of Public Health. This week I came across a […]

We here at the Medical Museion are a diverse group of academics, curators, administrators, tour guides and other help and support staff. Perhaps one thing that ties us together is that we all engage with social media in one way or another at work. But what happens to that dynamic when we step foot inside […]

Biostatistics is perhaps not the most approachable thing to people outside the biostatistics sphere, and as a discipline of Public Health Sciences it is sometimes frowned a little bit upon. Maybe because it is, even to many public health professionals, quite boring. It’s all about numbers, computer programmes, likelihoods, tests and probabilities and communicating it […]

I recently received a very nice and official looking email from a journal calling itself Sociology Study, published by David Publishing Company, USA, telling me that they had noticed that I had given a named paper at a named conference and that they would be interested in publishing this paper as an article if I […]

I have previously written about the use of blogs by students and researchers at schools of public health (I called them Schools of Public Health 2.0). One example was School of Public Health at the University of British Colombia. This week, I came across another school of Public Health Sciences that is actively using blogging […]