Raising the Bar on Health Policy Reporting: Trudy Lieberman Canadian Tour
October 21 – 25, 2013: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Trudy Lieberman, past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists in the U.S., will be visiting four Canadian cities this fall as a Fulbright Scholar and guest of EvidenceNetwork.ca. Lieberman currently covers health and the coverage of health for the Columbia Journalism Review and blogs at CJR.org. As a fellow at the Center for Advancing Health, she contributes to the preparedpatientforum.org blog, and is a contributor to The Nation. She has had a long career at Consumer Reports specializing in insurance, health care, health care financing and long-term care. She has won numerous honors and awards including two other Fulbright awards. She was a senior specialist in the United Kingdom in 2011 and a senior scholar in Japan in 1993. Lieberman is also an adjunct associate professor public health at the CUNY School of Public Health in New York City.
Public events include:
October 22, 2013 – 8:00 am to 10:00 am CST
Lecture: Health Journalism: Balanced but Broken
Location: P107, Red River College, Princess Street Campus, 160 Princess Street
Hosted by Creative Communications/Journalism Program, Red River College. Contact [email protected] for further details.
October 22, 2013 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm CST
Presentation: Talking to the Press: Communicating your Research to the Public
Location: Theatre B, Basic Medical Sciences Bldg, University of Manitoba, Bannatyne Campus. Hosted by the Dept of Community Health Sciences Noon Colloquium Series; the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and EvidenceNetwork.ca. Contact [email protected] for further details.
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For full details on the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg events visit EvidenceNetwork.ca/Events. For more details on the Winnipeg events contact [email protected].