Susannah Fox

I help people navigate health and technology.

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One voice, many inflections: HIV clinical trial communications

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I’m re-sexifying the top of this post since it’s so long and I want people to get these key take-aways (read on for details on each one): Expect clinical trial participants to share news with their networks. Plan accordingly. Make your information attractive and share-able where people already are, on Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc. Find […]

Public service researcher

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I think of myself as a public service researcher. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the California HealthCare Foundation provide the funds for the work I do and, in turn, I do everything I can to inject the findings into the public conversation: publish reports and data sets online, for free; talk to reporters and bloggers […]

Ribbons, ribbons, everywhere

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Peggy Orenstein‘s article, “Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer,” is worth one of your precious NYTimes.com chits (unless, of course, you’re a subscriber, in which case you have hopefully already devoured it). But don’t just take my word for it, read this post by Katherine O’Brien of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network — the bloggers […]

A mirror and a window

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I’ve been thinking about the role of the Pew Research Center* in the world, particularly in regard to how we communicate and disseminate our work. Here is my idea: We are both a mirror and a window. We hold up a mirror to society, reflecting back the current state of all sorts of things, like marriage, […]

2012 Health Survey Data

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Thanks to multiple requests, and our hope to be useful and responsive to our audience, the Pew Research Center posted a preliminary version of the September 2012 health survey data. Please note that this version includes the topline, questionnaire, CSV file, and SPSS file. Here’s an explanation of our data resources if you have questions about […]