New Voices for Health & Environment in the Merrimack Valley

The goal of the School of Health and Environment's pilot project “New Voices for Health and Environment in the Merrimack Valley” is to find innovative ways to communicate health information to Asians, Latinos and Brazilians in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts.

The UMass Lowell Student Broadcast Media Center and faculty from the Departments of Community Health and Sustainability, Nursing, and Work Environment will promote health, safety, and well-being through the use of two ethnic media channels--radio broadcasting and newspapers. 

The project team will focus on multidisciplinary aspects of health and environment issues affecting immigrant populations, such as health careers, worker health and safety, and disease prevention and management.

Download the media catalog (pdf), which includes descriptions and contact information for Brazilian, Spanish and Southeast Asian newspapers and radio shows in the Merrimack Valley.

Podcasts

Download/Listen to the interview with Dr. David Wegman on the New Voices Signature Initiative.

Download/Listen to the interview with Karen Devereaux Melillo and Lisa Abdallah on the nursing shortage and recruitment efforts into nursing.

Download/Listen to the interview with Susan OSullivan on physical therapy and rehabilitation and the implications for an aging boomer population.