Welcome to Forward to Health, a progressive blogging experiment focused on improving lives through better healthcare with a focus on: community health, public health law, design methods for health, crisis management, global health, justice, ethics, nursing and teaching/learning in the health professions. So pretty much anything that this new blogger is interested in that relates to creating and maintaining health for all. I'm not sure where this blog will go, what sort of discoveries may be made in the course of writing it or whether it will be maintained for any definite period of time. If you are reading, I invite and encourage you to comment and engage and we can co-create this space together.
Importantly, Forward to Health is my own personal blog. It isn't reviewed, edited or approved by my employer(s) or anyone else. Unless otherwise stated, the content on this blog (and the views expressed herein) are my own. As it may soon become obvious, I have no editor. I expect that mistakes will be made, blogging norms violated and learning opportunities will ensue. I'm looking forward to all of those things. I ask that if you see something interesting here and wish to repeat it, that you give credit where it is due. I will be carefully citing quoted material and academic references with hyperlinks whenever possible.
Who are you and why are you writing a blog about healthcare?
Simply stated: I care about health and am interested in how we can make a meaningful difference in improving the lives of all people. I am convinced of the value of transdisciplinarity based on my own personal experiences and the opportunity to witness mind-bending feats of ingenuity and creativity that result from bringing folks with different backgrounds together to work on big challenges.
I am a Registered Nurse, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Community Health and an attorney who focuses on healthcare related legal matters. You can learn a little about me at www.chadpriest.org. My full time job and passion is leading MESH, a non-profit public-private partnership that enables healthcare providers to respond effectively to emergency events and remain viable through recovery. I also serve as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing where I teach courses in bioethics and community health in Bloomington, Indiana. Finally, I serve as a core faculty member of the Disaster Medicine Fellowship at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine.
What will you be blogging about?
I will begin this blog with a daily recap from the upcoming TEDMED conference in Washington, DC where I will be attending as a Front Line Scholar. My blogging strategy at TEDMED will be to comment on things that catch my gaze, partly in an effort to identify the types of things worth writing on in the future. I will also be using the blog as a place to trial my own concepts and ideas in the hope of generating some crowd-feedback.
Thank you for reading/commenting. I look forward to moving forward to health with you.
Chad Priest, RN, MSN, JD
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