DC HIV Testing Initiative
Washington, DC has the highest rate of AIDS cases in the US — 1 in 50 DC residents has AIDS. It is estimated that 1 in 20 DC residents has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That gives DC the unfortunate...
View ArticleA Case for Patience and Kindness
PreventionWorks is featured in this 8 minute film produced by Charles Sessoms, a former employee who now works at the DC Department of Health. Two of the people interviewed are people that Kristen...
View ArticleBreastfed Baby Kicked Off Plane
It sounds like a headline from the Onion, right? But this mom was actually kicked off a Delta airlines flight because she was breastfeeding her child. The following story came directly from Moms...
View ArticlePreventionWorks in the NY Times
PreventionWorks was featured in an article in today’s New York Times. There’s also a multimedia presentation that is really great. You can watch it here. Let’s hope this publicity leads Congress to...
View ArticleDC Needle Exchange in the NY Times (twice in 7 days!)
This is a very exciting time at PreventionWorks. (It makes it even harder to be leaving!) I failed to mention that last week’s article appeared on the *front page* of the NY Times with a great photo of...
View ArticleThe Washington Post gets on board
The front page of today’s Metro section featured an article about PreventionWorks — the third mention of PW in major news sources in a week! It’s really hard to be leaving the field right as all this...
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Updates
The first and most exciting update has to do with PreventionWorks. We received two enormous checks today from individual donors, bringing the total amount of donations in response to the articles to...
View ArticleToo much news
Yesterday was a day with too much news to report! Frank called me from the house at around 8:30 to tell me that the one of the houses across the street was on fire. The street was full of fire trucks...
View ArticleGreat News!
The needle exchange funding ban was lifted in the House. It still has to pass through the Senate, but if all goes well, it is possible that DC will be able to fund its own needle exchange starting...
View ArticleAlzheimer’s Awareness
In college I was fortunate to have two fantastic mentors as thesis advisors. One of those great mentors was history professor, David Schalk. Mr. Schalk (at Vassar no one uses “Dr.”) is a patient,...
View ArticleQuite the Oxymoron
I was dismayed to read that there may soon be a rash of “pro-life drugstores” breaking out around the country. (Washington Post article here.) These will be drugstores that will refuse to carry the...
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Caron Center Honors Kristen
We’re all very proud of Kristen, who got some publicity for doing something good for the community, not for just standing in front of the supermarket like some people. From the Washington paper Metro...
View ArticleA Donation Challenge
As many of you know, I joined the board of PreventionWorks earlier this year. It’s an exciting time to be on the board because there are a lot of changes happening in response to our receiving DC funds...
View ArticlePreventionWorks Thanks You for Your Support
Thank you to Lisa, Andy, Sadie, Jonah and Frank for your donations to PW. Together we raised $550! Wahoo! (If you still want to join in the fun, it’s not too late! The fiscal year ends today-...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Allan Rosenfield
The worlds of public health and reproductive health have lost a great leader. The Dean Emeritus of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia has passed away at the age of 75. Dr. Rosenfield was...
View ArticlePlease consider an end-of-year donation to PreventionWorks
For the past three years I have served as Treasurer on the Board of PreventionWorks, a local public health and social justice organization in Washington, DC. As many of you know, prior to that I was a...
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