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reportJan 15, 2009

European Worries About Reliance on Russian Energy Were Already High

by Erin Carriere-Kretschmer, Senior Research Associate, Pew Global Attitudes Project and Katie Holzwart, Research Analyst, Pew Global Attitudes Project As Russian and Ukrainian leaders squabbled over gas supplies in late 2008 and early 2009, Eastern Europeans farther down the pipeline went without heat. European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso called the dispute “most unacceptable and incredible,” […]
reportJan 15, 2009

European Worries About Reliance on Russian Energy Were Already High

Just as concern about energy dependence has become widespread, so too have unfavorable views of Russia and its Prime Minister Putin.
reportNov 26, 2008

Illness in the age of “e”

Last month, the Connected Health Symposium at Harvard Medical School saw a first: a full-length case study in participatory medicine, described concurrently by both the patient and his physician.
reportNov 24, 2008

Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media

At a time when health care is a major public policy issue, how have the U.S. media covered the complex subject of health? A new report from PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines those questions.
reportNov 12, 2008

Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks

Hunter Gatewood likens early adopters to “happy dogs in a pile of sticks” and says that in order to spread change you need to recruit the “hesitant cat, waiting to see what works.”
reportOct 30, 2008

Participatory Medicine, Connected Health

I presented our latest data on social media and health to the Center for Connected Health’s 2008 Symposium in Boston.
presentationOct 27, 2008

Participatory Medicine: How User-Generated Media are Changing American Attitudes and Actions, Online and Off

The internet has changed people’s expectations of their relationship with health professionals. One possible next step is the concept of participatory medicine.
reportOct 1, 2008

Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

The New York Times quoted our data in an article entitled Logging On for a Second (or Third) Opinion. We happen to be preparing our next health…
reportSep 24, 2008

Declining Public Support for Global Engagement

Overview The public is feeling much better about how the war in Iraq is going these days, but at the same time has a sharply diminished appetite for U.S. efforts to deal with an array of global problems. Fewer people than at any point in this decade assign high priority to such foreign policy goals […]
reportSep 15, 2008

Participatory Medicine at NIH, Part 2

The National Institutes of Health recently gathered a group of consumers and people who study them to discuss how to “chart the next course for NIH communications.”