Measles Communication Tips for Health Professionals

Love these four tips! Local information and local trusted messengers, always so important. Including Reddit as a way to get a handle on what people are thinking is so smart (hmm, has that been studied yet?)! Understanding what motivates folks to make certain health decisions-key. Glad to hear about the webinar from this great group of health communication specialists.

This Thursday, AJMC is launching our first Population Health Roundtable event of 2026 in Phoenix, AZ. The format is built around what's actually missing in most population health conversations: health system leaders and frontline population health stakeholders in the same room, sharing real-world best practices to help organizations stand up, refine, and sustain population health programs across different care settings. Each event will feature multiple health systems within a region and each roundtable will have a specific therapeutic area of focus. For tomorrow's event, we have 3 concurrent tracks - dermatology, heart failure, and obesity. A huge thanks to Ed Clarke, MD and the team at Banner Health & Banner|Aetna for being great partners in helping us bring this to life. The goal is bigger than one event. We're taking these discussions on the road to break down the silos that exist with today's health systems, and the clinicians driving outcomes on the ground - and to build a forum where best practices actually get shared, not just presented. More to come from Phoenix on Thursday. This is just the start. Check out the attached schedule if you're interested in participating or sponsoring an upcoming event.

Social media has become a major source of health information for many women, influencing everything from symptom recognition to treatment decisions. While digital platforms can increase awareness and community support, they can also spread misinformation and deepen confusion around evidence-based care. This blog explores how online content shapes women’s health decisions and why healthcare professionals must engage thoughtfully in the digital information landscape. Read more: https://lnkd.in/epPSmszb ✊ Join: bit.ly/amwa-getf #WomenHealth #HealthMisinformation #SocialMediaHealth #HealthEquity #MedicalEducation #DigitalHealth #GenderEquity #AMWA #PatientAdvocacy #EvidenceBasedMedicine

The idea of syndemics has become very popular in scientific research and increasingly popular in healthcare programming. Ever wondered if we can do something with the idea also in policy debates? Well, we did! In our article (with Veronica Fröberg), just published in Discover Public Health, we argue that the syndemic potentially has multiple but somewhat limited uses as a device for seeing and choosing in policymaking contexts. The idea can bring added value to health policy debates when used as an outlook for delimiting problem definitions and policy solutions. In short, the idea becomes very useful when we already have established a consensus on which syndemic we need to address. Alas, the idea itself is not - at least not yet - very helpful in choosing which syndemic to address. I believe the idea has much potential here as well and applied policy scholars can do more to translate the theoretical idea into an effective and useful policy idea. I think we need the idea of syndemics to manage health emergencies as broader societal emergencies. See our theoretical re-interpretation driven scoping review 👇 https://lnkd.in/d5WBuKpW

As with technology, mhealth can never stand still. It has to keep evolving. We began mDiabetes as a simple, scalable public health intervention through mobile text messaging. It has evolved thoughtfully over time, first through SMS, then through WhatsApp-based text delivery. We are building on what already works and has been established by our program. At the heart of mDiabetes is a set of 62 well-designed, validated messages that have already shown impact. The question we are asking now is: how do we make that support more useful in real life? Because behaviour change does not happen in theory. It happens in daily life. At weddings. During travel. In moments of craving, confusion, and everyday trade-offs. That is where the program is evolving, from one-way message delivery to more interactive, contextual support that can help people translate health advice into daily action. We are exploring how mDiabetes can become more personal without losing the discipline of public health. We are preserving the educational backbone of the program while layering in smarter support through conversation, local relevance, multilingual access, and timely nudges. And we want this evolution to be grounded in responsibility with solutions designed around how people actually use technology, not how we assume they do. Often with scale the impact weakens and we don’t want to do that. With support from ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR - NIE) we are designing the next phase of mDiabetes that’s even more rooted and relevant for people in their everyday lives.

🚺 National Women’s Health Week 2026: Prevention, Innovation & Impact Women’s health is more than a medical topic — it’s a public health, economic, and societal priority. As healthcare evolves, the focus is shifting from reactive treatment to proactive prevention, early detection, personalized care, and innovation-driven solutions that improve long-term wellness for women at every stage of life. In my latest article, I explore: 🔹 The importance of preventive healthcare and screenings 🔹 Mental health and emotional well-being 🔹 Hormonal health and lifestyle medicine 🔹 The role of AI, telemedicine, and digital health innovation 🔹 Why healthcare systems must invest more in women’s health Women often prioritize the health of others while delaying care for themselves. Increasing awareness, improving access to healthcare, and encouraging preventive habits can create healthier families, stronger communities, and better health outcomes worldwide. Healthcare innovation is advancing rapidly, but meaningful impact requires more than technology. It also requires education, accessibility, research, and stronger public health support. 📖 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dgjv44bA I’d love to hear your perspective: What changes do you believe are most needed in women’s healthcare today? #NationalWomensHealthWeek #WomensHealth #Healthcare #PreventiveCare #HealthcareInnovation #MentalHealth #DigitalHealth #PublicHealth #Wellness #WomenEmpowerment #HealthAwareness #FutureOfHealthcare

Readmissions are a persistent challenge for health systems. Efforts to reduce readmissions are particularly challenging for health systems that serve as the healthcare safety net (i.e., systems with a high proportion of patients with socioeconomic barriers to care including low-income, uninsured, or under-insured patients). These systems operate with limited resources and have no margin for misallocated resources. In an effort to help inform the design or redesign of readmission reduction programs, we explored whether any interventions are effective for reducing 30-day hospital readmissions in populations with socioeconomic barriers to care. We identified 6 randomized trials published between 2013 and 2025 that tested interventions for reducing 30-day readmissions in populations with socioeconomic barriers to care and reported enough information for meta-analysis. Why only randomized trials? Results from many evaluations of readmissions interventions are misleading because of inappropriate designs and analytic approaches, which are avoided in randomized trials. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱:   • Overall, none of the interventions provide convincing evidence of effectiveness, which included community health worker-led interventions, nurse-led interventions, and multidisciplinary interventions.   • Multidisciplinary interventions might be the most promising in this group, but the estimates are still compatible with a moderate reduction or modest increase in readmission. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀, 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀:   • For health systems already operating at the margins, what is the opportunity cost of investing in readmission reduction programs that may not have the intended outcome?   • If readmission is an unmovable metric, should this metric be penalized, incentivized, or replaced? 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺: Elyse McNamara-Pittler, MPH, Caitlin Thompson, Kevin Craten, MHA, LSSYB, Rohit Ojha, DrPH, MPH, FACE, JPS Center for Epidemiology & Healthcare Delivery Research. #hospitalreadmissions #healthservicesresearch #safetynet #healthpolicy America's Essential Hospitals. JPS Health Network.

Research doesn’t just stay on paper it shapes real healthcare decisions. One of the most meaningful parts of my journey was publishing research in Frontiers Journal. My research focused on: ➡️ Ageing populations ➡️ Access to periodontal healthcare ➡️ Public health inequalities This experience helped me understand: • How accessibility affects long-term health outcomes • Why prevention is critical in ageing populations • The importance of evidence-based healthcare decisions It also strengthened my skills in: • Public health research • Data analysis and interpretation • Structured reporting You can read my published research here: https://lnkd.in/gWRDv2Ea #publichealthresearch #healthcareresearch #nhs #healthpolicy #evidencebasedpractice #mph #healthcareinsights

A new global survey highlighted something many of us in healthcare have felt for years: misinformation is no longer a fringe issue; it is shaping real health decisions worldwide. According to recent findings, 7 in 10 people surveyed held at least one belief that goes against established medical science. These views crossed age, education, and political groups, showing just how broad the challenge has become. For those of us working in vaccines and public health, this reinforces an important truth: Data alone is not enough. Trust matters. Communication matters. Relationships matter. Science can develop life-saving tools, but if people do not trust the messenger or understand the message, progress can stall. This is why healthcare providers, pharmacists, nurses, public health leaders, and medical professionals all play such an important role. Every patient conversation is an opportunity to replace confusion with clarity. The future of public health will not be won only in labs. It will also be won in conversations. What strategies have you seen work best in rebuilding trust and combating misinformation? https://lnkd.in/g-6yVktH