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Comic from "Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371" by MK Czerwiec

Comic in “Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371” by
MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec a.k.a. “Comic Nurse” says, “I am a nurse who uses comics to reflect on the complexities of illness and caregiving.”  

She’s a leader in the pack of artists in the graphic medicine movement.

Czerwiec is the Artist in Residence, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Columbia College Chicago, Department of Creative Writing, Co-manager, GraphicMedicine.org and Guest Cartoonist, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation Blog. 

HealthCetera’s host Barbara Glickstein talks to MK Czerwiec on how graphic medicine is challenging conventional representations of health and disease and why comics have the tremendous power to be an agent of healing.

MK Czerwiec book “Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371” is part of the Graphic Medicine Series published by Penn State University Press. It will be available March 2017. 

Read Taney Roniger article, A Pill for the Heart , his book review of Graphic Medicine Manifesto, where you can find MK Czerwiec work and other graphic artists.

She tweets as @ComicNurse and @GraphicMedicine.

Hear the interview on Thursday, September 15th at 1:00 PM on WBAI 99.5FM and streamed live at wbai.org. You can listen to the podcast on our iTunes channel here;

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Some people have access to good mental health care but for a greater number of people mental health care is not within reach. A population of people living with mental health issues worry about where their medication will come from, how they can get back into employment or back into school. Many of these concerns have increased since the global recession. Every one of us knows somebody who has been affected by or is experiencing a mental health condition.

On August 29th, Presidential candidate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released her plan to address mental health care in the United States Hillary Clinton’s Comprehensive Agenda on Mental Health. Clinton’s plan encompasses the integration of mental and physical health care systems, including an expansion of reimbursement structures in Medicare and Medicaid, suicide prevention and increase funding for community health centers.

 

HealthCetera host Barbara Glickstein interviews Kathleen M. Pike, PhD , Executive Director and Scientific Co-Director of the Global Mental Health Program and is Associate Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship Program at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. She currently leads the Global Mental Health Program at Columbia – World Health Organization Collaboration. Dr. Pike addresses global and national mental health issues and comments on the proposed Clinton plan.

 

Dr. Kathleen Pike has written that “it takes political will, global collaboration and strategic solutions to address the treatment and social needs of people living with a mental health issue.”

 

Listen to the interview and hear her Dr. Pike’s response to Glickstein’s question, “Do you think that Americans are experiencing political distress during this political campaign?”

 

Dr. Pike tweets at @PikeKM

 

Tune in Thursday, September 15th 1:30 PM 99.5 FM streamed at wbai.org or listen to the podcast now on iTunes here:

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Health, Media Engagement

melissa-patrick-headshot-webWe’re so happy to welcome Melissa Patrick, a reporter with Kentucky Health News, as the Center for Health, Media & Policy’s 2016-2017 Nursing and Health Care Workforce Media Fellow!

 

The eight-month program is designed to aid an early-career health journalist improve understanding and coverage of healthcare workforce issues. A key focus of Patrick’s reporting will include issues in rural health that affect existing and new roles of nurses and other health care providers within the evolving healthcare delivery system.

 

Patrick will produce both long and short-form print and multimedia projects for Kentucky Health News; the stories will be subsequently republished on the HealthCetera blog. New America Media, the country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 3,000 ethnic news organizations, is partnering with the HealthCetera to distribute Patrick’s work to a national and international audience.

 

“We’re thrilled to welcome Melissa as this year’s Media Fellow. She is strongly committed to raising awareness about the role of nurses and other health care workers in the current and future health care system” said Center for Health, Media & Policy co-founder Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN. “This fellowship provides an opportunity to work with some of the top health journalists and nursing workforce experts, hone reporting and production skills, engage in cross-platform reporting, and contribute to the national conversation about health care delivery challenges in the years ahead.”

 

Patrick’s main project will take a multi-part look into a shortage of school nurses throughout the state, a shortage of nurses to serve rural areas, the role of Advance Practice nurses in meeting some of Kentucky’s health needs and state policy issues impacting nurses.

 

This media fellowship is an extension of the Center’s mission, designed to increase awareness and encourage debate of critical health and policy issues. The fellowship is supported by a grant from the Johnson & Johnson Foundation.

 

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