On Air: PRI’s New Global Health Focus

December 26, 2007 at 6:13 pm · Filed under In the News, HIV/AIDS, Web 2.0, Chronic Disease

on-air.jpgPublic Radio International (PRI) recently announced a three-year $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to disseminate news on global health.

The Morning Show, a new program premiering in 2008, will partner PRI and WNYC with the BBC WOrld Service, the New York Times, and WGBH Boston to provide a platform for coverage of issues such as drug-resistant TB, staph infection, the search for HIV/AIDS vaccines, and the environment. Other programming with an increased global health focus will include PRI’s “The World.”

We are especially intrigued by the Web 2.0-enhanced scope of the PRI project, as described in their news release:

PRI will stimulate listener engagement with its global health and development programming through online discussions and other resources, including customized social networking and civic engagement tools, blogs, podcasts, mobile phone segments and searchable transcripts. These will be available on PRI.org and PRI partner Web sites.

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