I’m very excited to join Vida Health Communications, as Project Manager on a course we’re producing for nurses about workplace violence.

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this web-based curriculum will help nurses identify, prevent, and respond to violence where they work, as well as to encourage them to advocate for change at the policy level. In addition to text and graphics, we will use video elements – interviews with experts, testimonials from nurses about their own experiences, and dramatic reenactments of case studies – to illuminate some essential behaviors and situations. We are currently writing scripts and receiving valuable feedback from expert academics and practitioners.

In my career to date, I’ve worked on other educational projects for nurses, as well as a range of films, videos, web sites, and events for the general public, generally about science/technology and health/medicine topics. I look forward to getting to the video production stage, and to making this much needed course a reality.

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy - Professional Edition Now Available!

Your Green Guide to Pregnancy is designed to help prenatal healthcare providers and educators teach women how to reduce their risk of exposure to environmental toxins during pregnancy.

Vida’s newest release continues to receive honors! Your Green Guide to Pregnancy has been awarded a Gold Remi at the 43rd Annual WorldFest- Houston International Film Festival in patient education, a certificate of excellence in education at the U.S. International Film & Video Festival and a Telly statuette for excellence in the Health and Wellness category. Your Green Guide to Pregnancy has also received an award from The Health and Science Communications Association (HeSCA) 2010 Media Festival for excellence in the Patient Education category. HeSCA is an association of communications professionals committed to sharing knowledge and resources in the health and science arenas. 

The Your Green Guide to Pregnancy video on DVD provides safe, practical strategies to reduce exposures across these primary areas:

•    environmental tobacco smoke
•    beauty treatments and personal care products
•    exposures in the home
•    food safety and healthy eating

The video features a diverse cast; program content is presented at middle school literacy level. The DVD contains two separate versions of the program in English and Spanish; both are closed-captioned and can be looped for continuous play in clinic waiting areas.

This professional edition also includes a companion CD-ROM library of professional educational resources including a detailed Workshop Leader's Guide, flyers, evaluation forms, a computer slide show presentation and full color printable handouts. All materials for distribution to workshop participants are in English and Spanish.

This program was produced with a small business innovative research grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health & Safety (R43ES014495).

For more information or to order, please click here


Vida Around the World

Dear Vida,

On behalf of the MAMI clinic in La Romana, Dominican Republic we would like to thank you for your donation of Works of Wonder. One of our focuses in the MAMI this year has been improving our educational program for our pregnant patients. We give educational talks in the waiting room on nutrition during pregnancy, breastfeeding, caring for a newborn, labor and delivery, family planning for after pregnancy, and HIV and STI prevention. The video we received from Vida amplified our education that we’re giving on labor and delivery.  

We spoke with a few teens after one of the video showings to hear what they thought of the content. Everyone enjoyed the material and mentioned how much they appreciated the thorough explanation of labor and that they had a better understanding of what to expect during their own deliveries. Our patients are young (we serve the 19 and younger population of La Romana, pop. 350,000) and they are often anxious about the giving birth process since there is very little education available to them on what they will be experiencing. The video helped the girls understand what will happen to them and go into the birth mentally prepared.  

Our clinic sees about 300 patients a month and there are approximately 85 births a month from mothers 19 years and under in La Romana, so we are able to reach a large population with the videos.

Thank you so much Vida, we’re so appreciative!

El Modulo Anexo Materno Infantil (MAMI), La Romana, Dominican Republic    

About Vida Health Communications, Inc.

Vida Health Communications, Inc. is dedicated to improving the health of women, children and families through the production of evidence-based educational media for clinical, patient and lay audiences.

Vida’s experience as educator and media producer sets it apart from other developers of public health interventions. Our award-winning programs integrate and ‘translate’ the latest scientific knowledge and advances in healthcare with consistently innovative approaches to visual and interactive media. Vida has received well over 100 awards for its programs.