Barbara Glickstein, MPH, MS, RN is a public health nurse, health reporter and media strategist. In 2019 she founded Barbara Glickstein Strategies.

Her media training provides diverse leaders in health care the tools to be sources on all media platforms to advance the health of the public and public policy.

Glickstein produces a weekly news segment for HealthCetera in the Catskills, that provides evidence-based news, analysis and commentary where diverse, dynamic, front-line experts discuss the latest real-world effects of healthcare and health policy. She is committed to disrupting health news reporting to be more inclusive using diverse sources putting a human face on important social issues.

Glickstein is the Media Strategist for Carolyn Jones Productions. She worked on the documentaries The American Nurse, Defining Hope and In Case of Emergency. She consulted on the multimedia project Dying in America. 

Glickstein was co-PI for the Woodhull Revisited Project that replicated the original Woodhull study from 1997 and found that today’s nurses are used as sources in only 2% of health news stories (published in  the Journal of Nursing Scholarship in 2018). She is one of the lead authors on a follow up qualitative study of journalists’ experiences with using nurses as sources (American Journal of Nursing, 2018).

Glickstein was selected to participate in Take the Lead’s 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism 2019. In 2009 she was chosen by The Women’s Media Center (WMC) as one of 44 participants for the Progressive Women’s Voices Program which provides media and spokesperson training to facilitate connecting media professionals with women experts. 

Glickstein serves as a board member of Project Kesher, a women’s advocacy organization creating sustainable change in building civil society in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Georgia.  In 2018, as a senior advisor to Project Kesher’s Grand Canadian Challenge Grant, Project Kesher Ukraine was funded to partner with Hromadske Public Radio to launch the first women’s health radio program in Ukraine that provides evidence-based health information and health policy news including how proposed changes to national healthcare will impact women and how they can advocate for their needs.

You can follow her on Twitter @bglickstein.

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