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| Brad Wright |
APHA and CHPPD member Brad Wright has started a new health care blog "Wright on Health." According to Wright, "the goal is to make health policy and health services research more accessible to the general public by translating complex concepts into understandable messages for the lay person."
Wright acknowledges that his blog should be taken with a grain of salt. "Sometimes, it gets a little humorous, but I think that helps people to connect with the material," he says. Still, there’s plenty of great substantive material for health care practitioners, policy-makers, and wonks.
In less than a month, Wright on Health has been featured twice by the Kaiser Health News’ Blog Watch, listed as "Best of the Web" by the GoozNews, and included in the August 6 edition of the Health Wonk Review. Wright is currently in talks with The Huffington Post and expects to be cross-posting his material on the popular internet news site by the fall.
For now, you can visit Brad’s blog at http://www.healthpolicyanalysis.com. He invites you to contact him at bradwright@unc.edu to suggest possible topics for the blog and is actively soliciting pieces from interested guest contributors. "I’m not the only one with a few bright ideas," he says, "I know that the APHA membership has a lot to offer, and I hope that they will get involved."
By Brad Wright, PhD Candidate, bradwright@unc.edu