The drawbacks of using internet marketing in public health
Just a quick finding from our research on the RISE project. Across all communities, we looked at the interrelationships between a few of the social determinants of health. The correlation matrix is below: This shows how different variables relate to one another. I filtered the data to show only the statistically significant correlations. So of…
Catching up on Collaboration Research
Comments on the Consolidated Framework for Collaboration Research. In the RISE project, our friend and colleague Jason Turi is coordinating our inquiry into how coalitions work with one another. One of the major sources of that data comes from the AACT, where were have a number of items that show how coalition functioning has grown…
Announcing: Reading Scientific Articles like a Scientist
Reading scientific articles can be difficult because they are often dense and filled with jargon. They also concisely present complex findings, making them difficult to understand. Finally, scientific articles sometimes contain errors or inaccuracies. Therefore, it is important to be vigilant when reading scientific articles and critically evaluate their content. To help readers overcome these…
Reflections on Status as a Service, and the conundrum of Social Capital
Guest post by our incredible friend and colleague, Kalie Wertz. Read all about her on our About page! “Numbers lend an air of legitimacy and credibility” – and yet, social capital has no true means of measurement. This couldn’t be closer to the truth. And this truth has often frustrated me as a management researcher,…
Reaching the Outcomes you want from Training
We’ve been preparing to roll out some virtual trainings on our rmc2.org platform in the coming weeks. Because of that, it’s helpful to take a step back and think about what makes good training. Have you ever been part of a really dull training? It saps the soul. How can we prevent this from happening?…
A great example of engaging with the public on science
We love Reddit here. Like most websites that encompass a wide range of tops, there’s some great stuff on Reddit, and some really terrible stuff. We also love engaging with the public on scientific topics. So, we were delighted to see this thread from Dr. Zachary Neal (a community psychologist), where he not only promoted…
How many $$$$$ is your title worth?
RWJF maintains a database of all awards they have granted since 1972; a number that comes up to around 30,000 awards. We’ve been looking more deeply at what wasn’t funded for another project, but I spend a moment looking at this database to see what trends we could see. If you are applying, and wonder…
Digging into some CDC data
This is another one of those live blog post that I write while I do some data analyses. I hope you find this interested to see how we approach the analytic process and the types of questions that we want to answer. The focus today is on the CDC-RISE project. We have five major evaluation…
Analyzing change using the Pathways to Population Health Compass
This is another one of those “writing a blog while I’m working” blogs. For the Rhode to Equity project, we administered three waves of the P2PH Compass. This tool actually warrants some discussion up-front. The Compass measures a variety of capacities for community health engagement and improvement on a developmental scale. We designed the Compass…
Effective Twitter Use Among PA Congressional Representatives
In our work for the RISE project, we have been looking at how different organizations have used Twitter to spread public health messages. These organizations aren’t the only ones with an interest in trying to communicate with the public at large. Government officials have a vested responsibility that involves being able to directly communicate news…
A new dawn (chorus)
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. After several months of development, we’ve relaunched the Dawn Chorus Group website. Of course, it was our buddies at Mind Development and Design who helped shepherd this into reality, so we would be remiss if…
Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog
10:11 p.m. About five hours ago, a dear colleague said to me, “We need to have this data cleaned for the reports, oh, and it’s also going to be shown at a [high-level government function.] Here’s a fact. This data has been a disaster for a long time. Well, not the data itself but the…
