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Black Lives Matter

Signs of the times: Black Lives Matter

June 12, 2020 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Hand painted Black Lives Matter protest signs attached to fence

Sonja Sharp, an LA Times reporter, interviewed Deaf people about how they are creating and sharing new signs for this moment of reckoning and recognition. I cued up the story’s video (below) to the point at which Rorri Burton, a Black American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, shares her perspective: The sign for “your knee on […]

Filed Under: key people Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Deaf, Stanford Medicine X

“For Black people, Minneapolis is a metaphor for our world.”

June 1, 2020 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Pictures of black men, women, and children who were killed by police in Minneapolis since the year 2000.

The following is an excerpt from the Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans, by Yeshimabeit Milner (@YESHICAN). I’m posting it as a way to amplify her voice. Please click through to read the entire essay. If you share it on social platforms, please share her Medium post directly. We at Data […]

Filed Under: health data, key people, policy issues Tagged With: Black Lives Matter

Access to data = access to power

October 19, 2017 By Susannah Fox 17 Comments

Black Lives Matter sign

Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes. When there are gaps in the record or the data don’t exist, participatory data collection empowers people to contribute to the public conversation. Access to data is access to power. On November 17-19, 2017, Data for […]

Filed Under: health data, policy issues, trends & principles Tagged With: Adverse Childhood Experience, asthma, Black Lives Matter, Blue Button, FHIR, flip teaching, Health Data, health disparities

Break my heart, make me change

August 1, 2014 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Arrows connect Give and Take; a bracket shows that Care encompasses both.

Take a deep breath and then look at this data about HIV in the U.S.: I have seen these numbers before, but never laid out so clearly and so beautifully. Thank you, Jeff Guo of the Washington Post, for breaking my heart. Thank you, because I think we all need our hearts broken anew from […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, trends & principles Tagged With: #whatifhc, AIDS.gov, Bedsider, Black Lives Matter, HIV/AIDS, Kicesie Drew, peer-to-peer healthcare, Pew Research Center, Vic Strecher

Health, Technology, and Communities of Color

February 16, 2012 By Susannah Fox 20 Comments

Serendipity brought me two opportunities this week to present Pew Internet’s data on communities of color and young people, particularly as it relates to health. On Wednesday I was a guest of the Federal HIV/AIDS Web Council and on Thursday I spoke at a meeting convened by CommonHealth ACTION. I’ll share some insights I picked […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, HIV/AIDS, Mobile Health, Natalie Burke, Pew Internet

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