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WE TAKE IT AS A GIVEN THAT SOUND STRATEGY AND TACTICAL SUCCESSES ARE ONLY A MEANS TO AN END. OUR GOAL, OUR “END,” IS SOCIAL CHANGE - THE ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW IDEAS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT IMPROVES PEOPLE'S LIVES.
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Vaccination ranks as the single most important public health achievement of the 20th century. In the industrialized world, diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough – once causes of great fear, suffering, and death – are, for the most part, rare occurrences that minimally impact... Read More
America is suffering from an obesity epidemic.
Just a few years ago, that statement would have raised eyebrows. But recently, obesity has taken center stage in discussions about public health. In 2004, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that poor diet... Read More
Doctors often refer to people who have never been infected with a malaria parasite as “malaria naïve.” That also would be an apt term for the world in general in 2001 when Burness Communications began our partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI).
In terms of... Read MoreJune 24 marked a first for Burness: after 25 years of managing events alongside our nonprofit partners, we tried hosting one of our own. Over lunch at Washington’s Busboys and Poets, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Alex S. Jones took the stage alongside Nicco Mele, who has made his mark as Howard Dean’s internet operations director, a Harvard lecturer and co-Founder of EchoDitto.
The question of the day was simple: “Are we losing the news?”
Read MoreWatch Dr. Bill Zempsky, a Mayday Pain & Society Fellow, discuss his experience in the four-day training in Washington, DC and the six-month coaching period that followed. Dr. Zempsky is the associate director of the pain relief program at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut where he works extensively with children and adolescents on one of the most painful conditions - sickle cell anemia.
Read MoreIn this video, Dr. Richard Payne discusses with Andy Burness the need for scientists to communicate about their work. Dr. Payne is a professor of medicine and divinity at Duke University, and the Esther Colliflower Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life.
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Read MoreThe new County Health Rankings reports rank every county in the nation on a comprehensive set of health factors and outcomes. A project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin, it is the first of its kind and an important tool for local policymakers,...
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