public health science communication

I can’t believe that this is my post number 101. Actually, I had planned to do something special with blog post no. 100, but I only realised that it was my anniversary post when it was published. So the celebration will have to wait for post number 500. However, post number 101 can also be […]

All students passed! Not only are the students who took the graduate class in Public Health Science Communication this fall semester probably relieved – so is the teacher! The exam was perhaps a test of the students knowledge but just as much was it test of how well they were taught. It has been fun […]

I can’t think of a more appropriate place than Twitter to come across an article about the use of social media to disseminate public health information. I regularly do a Twitter search for ‘public health social media’ and very often come across new interesting initiatives, reports, meetings etc. Today’s finding was the article Putting the Public […]

Wow, I can’t believe time has passed so quickly. Next to me is a pile of exam papers completed by the students of the graduate course in Public Health Science Communication at the University of Copenhagen. I feel like I just had the first introduction module, but yet I am almost done reading all these papers. Until […]

How social media friendly are Danish Schools of Public Health? Nordic Schools of Public Health? European Schools of Public Health? And which are the most friendly? Can it at all be measured? And what does it mean to score high on social media friendliness? The answers to these questions are not straight forward. But if […]

For the past year, I have here, at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Public Health, been working on a research project focusing on the use of social media in the communication of research in public health sciences. The technical report, completed by myself and Professor Thomas Söderqvist, is now ready, and I’m […]

On Monday 29 October we’re hosting a meeting in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences main building on social media in medical research and practice. Social media have conquered society. They are now also making their way into medical research and practice. What can doctors and researchers gain from using social media? How will […]

I love blogging. It surprises myself, because I really hadn’t predicted that having a blog would be something I’d get hooked on – or even less did I expect all the things it would bring with it. Extensive networks, new opportunities, great connections and new horizons. Especially the last couple of weeks have shown me […]

How can communicating your research benefit you as a researcher? This was the theme of module 3 of the Public Health Science Communication Course and also a question raised on this blog in a previous post. To my surprise finding good literature on this topic was not easy, but thanks to the help of you […]

Science communication and the internet is becoming a topic all over the world. Also France are tuning in on it. A conference next week at the Pasteur Institute brings people together to discuss how science communicated via the internet can help bring science to a wider public. The conference which is entitled ‘Communiquer la science […]