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Communicating Global Health - Celebrity Involvement in Health Promotion

Communicating Global Health - Celebrity Involvement in Health Promotion. Kim Solez, M.D. The Apollo moon landing of 1969 became the model for adventure and exploration for a generation.

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Communicating Global Health - Celebrity Involvement in Health Promotion

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  1. Communicating Global Health - Celebrity Involvement in Health Promotion Kim Solez, M.D.

  2. The Apollo moon landing of 1969 became the model for adventure and exploration for a generation.

  3. A quarter century later it the fight for global health, combating disease and disaster worldwide which inspires.

  4. Celebrities are very important in getting the message out about these causes in global health, and providing funds.

  5. Partnership between Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono providing billions for global health.

  6. Gates Foundation assets US $28 billion. Gives away $1 billion a year. Bono works to end African suffering from HIV and AIDS. likes to arrange encounters between people who have no business being in the same room."I'm like a camel. I store up sleep in my hump."

  7. Warren Buffett pledges $37 billion to Gates Foundation more than doubling assetts. Will lead to the growth of worldwide consensus that decent basic health care is a human right that can be realized everywhere. June 26, 2006.

  8. Celebrity Supported Health-Related CausesJohnny Carson - Faith Regional Health Services FoundationGloria Estefan - La Liga Contra El Cancer, MiamiJeffrey Katzenberg - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Barbra Streisand - The Salk Institute; John Wayne Cancer Institute; AMFARMichael J. Fox - To find a cure for Parkinson's DiseaseElton John - National AIDS FundLarry King - Medical expenses for indigent people who had cardiac surgeryGilda Radner, Gene Wilder, Joel Seigel - Support for people with cancerChristopher Reeve - American Paralysis AssociationWill Rogers - Burke Rehabilitation HospitalPaul Simon - New York Children's Health ProjectSteven Spielberg- Media-based programs for children with a prolonged injury or illnessElizabeth Taylor- AIDS research, education programs

  9. Downside - Celebrity InvolvementOften celebrity spokespersons receiving substantial compensation. Stealth health-product marketing is blurring the distinction between advertising and education, giving celebrities undue medical influence, and contributing to soaring health-care costs.

  10. Brad Pitt Narrates TV Program Showcasing Global Health'Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge’Episode Three of the PBS Series: 'Back to the Basics/How Safe Are We?'Alfred Sommer, MDProfessor and Former Dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Friday, November 4, 2005; 2:00 PMThe series highlights public health breakthroughs and interventions that have more than doubled life expectancy in developed countries within the past century. The series, filmed in more than 20 countries, also explores how the lack of access to basic health interventions leaves many impoverished countries plagued by preventable diseases. The series aired on PBS on Tuesday, Nov. 1 - Thursday, Nov. 3. Brad Pitt narrates

  11. Robert Redford Acquires Rights to documentary 'The Origins of AIDS' Feb.12th, 2005 Sundance Channel has acquired pay television rights to the controversial, award-winning documentary The Origins of AIDS, directed by Peter Chappell and Catherine Peix.   The Origins of AIDS probes one of the most vexing, highly charged areas of AIDS research: how and when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was introduced to humans. Research has shown that chimpanzees carry simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a close relative of HIV. Scientists know that AIDS originated in Africa, and have concluded that at some point SIV crossed over into humans and became HIV.   The lethal contact could have come through food.

  12. Sean Elliott Gary Coleman Celebrities also important in nephrology and transplantation!NKF spokespersons. Alonzo Mourning Larry Hagman

  13. Celebrity Foundations for Nephrology/TransplantationThere are 296 charities and foundations related to kidney disease yet not a single one bears a celebrity name.Perhaps it’s time for a celebrity to take the kidney plunge!

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