Bay Area community stories on housing, health, and COVID-19
Date: May 12, 2020
BMSG events
Pitching your prevention story to journalists
Date: April 30, 2020
Pitching your prevention story to journalists
Everyone is looking to credible media sources for information about health and safety right now. Your prevention efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic are newsworthy and important — and media advocacy …Food marketing to kids: Excesses in capitalism
Date: March 06, 2020
Food marketing to kids: Excesses in capitalism
In a plenary session of “lightening rounds” for the annual meeting of Healthy Eating Research, BMSG Director Lori Dorfman described how food marketing shapes the current nutrition landscape for …Media advocacy lecture at U.C. Berkeley’s School of Public Health
Date: Feburary 19, 2020
Media advocacy lecture at U.C. Berkeley’s School of Public Health
BMSG Director Lori Dorfman provided students in Leonard Syme & Linda Neuhauser’s Interventions course a general overview of media advocacy in the context of our current social and political moment. …frank2020 talk: What happens when we’re not afraid to talk about sexual violence?
Date: Feburary 06, 2020
frank2020 talk: What happens when we’re not afraid to talk about sexual violence?
How can advocates striving to prevent sexual violence get better at communicating about their work? What does that look like in practice? What is holding us back? Those are some of the questions that BMSG …Media advocacy lessons to build power and change policy
Date: Feburary 05, 2020
Media advocacy lessons to build power and change policy
In a guest lecture at the University of California, San Francisco, BMSG Director Lori Dorfman introduced students to basic media advocacy concepts, including strategy development, message framing, and …Synthesizing knowledge and gaps in research to inform communication strategies in building a culture of health
Date: January 15, 2020
Synthesizing knowledge and gaps in research to inform communication strategies in building a culture of health
In this presentation, BMSG Director Lori Dorfman discussed several lessons learned that can inform communication strategies to build a culture of health. Her first lesson, “message is never first,” …APHA 2019: Creating the healthiest nation. For science. For action. For health.
Date: November 03, 2019 - November 05, 2019
APHA 2019: Creating the healthiest nation. For science. For action. For health.
BMSG presented three posters as part of the 2019 gathering of the American Public Health Association. During the poster sessions, our researchers highlighted findings from news analyses on cannabis legislation, …HJA media training
Date: October 17, 2019 - November 05, 2019
HJA media training
As part of BMSG’s work with the Healing Justice Alliance (HJA), BMSG’s Shaddai Martinez Cuestas provided a day-long training to the HJA Newark site on media engagement and interviewing skills.Junk food marketing to children: The current reality and what we can do about it
Date: October 16, 2019 - November 05, 2019