How to End a Pandemic - Anna Barry — Going From Photography to Public Health Journalism, The Factors That Go Into How Public Health Officials Inform The Public, Untangling The Threads of Ever-changing Information, Tensions Between State and Local Policy Makers (#1)

Anna Barry — Going From Photography to Public Health Journalism, The Factors That Go Into How Public Health Officials Inform The Public, Untangling The Threads of Ever-changing Information, Tensions Between State and Local Policy Makers (#1)

04/16/23 • 56 min

Quote: "It became a continious debate over who/what would be impacted by response efforts. Was it worth closing schools to keep businesses open? Only time will tell."
From her humble start as a traveling photographer, Anna Barry-Jester walks us through how she became a public health journalist in the midst of a recession. This exciting role investigating the intersection of health and politics came with the difficult responsibility of balancing priorities in the newsroom. Reporting on Covid-19 statistics mid- pandemic wasn't necessarily profitable to an agency, but she felt that doing so was part of her journalistic responsibility. Even then however, she (alongside many other health journalists at the time) came to realize that untangling the various threads of information and misinformation that had reached the public eye might require more concentrated efforts to break down the media's hyper-partisan tendencies and create a more unified healthcare system.
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Link Tree: http://www.annabarryjester.com/

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Jackie Thornhill — Getting Involved in Emergency Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic, How the Pandemic Directly Affected the City of San Francisco, The Importance of Protecting the Most Vulnerable Populations in Times of Crisis (#6)

Jackie Thornhill is a communications, policy, and public relations expert currently serving as a Legislative Aide to San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. She has created and executed communications plans for multiple elected officials, candidates for elected office, and public agencies. She has coordinated digital engagement and social media campaigns in her roles with City government, including campaigns to educate the public about the City’s evolving public health guidelines throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Campaigns she created include “Show Your Pride, Get Vaccinated!”, “Dispatcher Week 2021”, “A Place for All”, and Supervisor Mandelman’s calls for an escalated public health response to the MPX outbreak in 2022. Jackie grew up in the San Fernando Valley before moving to San Francisco in 2016, and graduated from the University of San Francisco with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2019. She has worked for the City and County of San Francisco since January, 2020.
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twitter: https://twitter.com/SF_emergency/status/1403414661337288705
show your pride campaign: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9N-fE6FmJXBwheBpzKjmmzy1T1i49KEP
SF monkeypox response: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=latest_news&id=317259