Andre Picard

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Sane truths in Crazy Town: What Rob Ford’s story offers politics, science and journalism

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 132 Views Andre Picard, Ben Goldacre, book review, Crazy Town, Edward Snowden, evidence, Globe and Mail, journalism, Julia Belluz, Rob Ford, Robyn Doolittle, science, Toronto

A new book about Toronto’s (in)famous mayor reveals a great deal more than just a story of man known more

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Public Health and Social Media: Catching Fire From Small Sparks

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 285 Views Andre Picard, Cameron Norman, CENSE Research + Design, Globe and Mail, health communications, health promotion, Jenny McCarthy, journalism, knowledge transfer, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, network theory, population health, public engagement, research, social media, social networks, Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Twitter, vaccination, youth

Public health is regrettably not a field that I often think of when I consider powerful examples of using social

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The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine

December 11, 2012December 11, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 174 Views Andre Picard, blogging, Darwin the monkey, evidence, health evidence, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, Malcolm Gladwell, media, Mitch Waldrop, news, newspapers, public health, science, social media, Stan Glantz, Steven Johnson, the fourth estate, tobacco control

Journalists occupy an important, yet often unacknowledged, role in the health system by providing a dispassionate account of the system’s

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