On February 1, Jane Lindholm, host of the Vermont Edition, interviewed Deb Van Dyke on Vermont Public Radio.  They discussed the inspiration for the Global Health Media Project, the need for videos to provide health care information for people in poor countries, and current projects on cholera and newborn care. Listen to the interview …

Vermont media outlets are picking up the compelling work that is being accomplished by our Vermont-based non-profit. The successful completion of our animated film on cholera is garnering attention for both the disease itself and the tools that the Global Health Media Project is working on to combat its spread. Today, the Burlington Free Press […]

The Story of Cholera, announced in our Business Wire press release three weeks ago, has been gaining traction among international viewers. The short animated film has now been watched in over 90 countries. Most viewers were from North America (40%), followed by Asia with 35%, and Europe with 20%. The response so far has been very […]

One important feature of our newborn care videos is the use of illustrations and brief animations that highlight key teaching points. When we began the post-production process for our first set of videos, we were fortunate to have Lorelei Pepi join our team. Lorelei is an international award-winning independent animator who now teaches at the […]

We are now in post-production of a third of the 35 vignettes in our newborn care series.  These videos focus on newborn skills and management of newborn problems, and are based on filming at two of our international clinical sites. In April, we partnered with the Maternal and Newborn Centers of Excellence Program in the Dominican […]

UNICEF News Note Dakar/Geneva; October 11, 2011 UNICEF fights “one of the worst ever” cholera outbreaks in West and Central Africa UNICEF is calling for a redoubling of efforts to combat cholera outbreaks that are claiming lives and affecting large numbers of people across West and Central Africa. This year has seen more than 85,000 reported cases of […]

The Guardian Sarah Boseley; August 31, 2011 Newborn deaths put millennium development goal under threat As more older children survive, slower progress in cutting death rates among babies in the first weeks of life is putting the goal of reducing child deaths by two-thirds in jeopardy Children under the age of five are increasingly likely to survive in poor […]

Press Release from the Center for Economic and Policy Research Date:  August 18, 2011 Contact:  Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460 Web address:  http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-center/ Thousands of Lives Could Be Saved, and Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic Managed, With Greater Treatment and Prevention Efforts, CEPR Paper Finds Recent Cholera Spike Was “Entirely Predictable,” Yet Treatment Efforts Fell Off Washington, D.C.  A new paper from the Center for Economic […]

When the cholera epidemic struck Haiti in October 2010, we quickly began working on a film that would educate people as to how cholera is transmitted, how people could protect themselves from the disease, and what steps to take if they did get sick. Our goal was to convey reliable information with simple visual messages […]