12 Jan: RPH wiki is more or less a month old!
- Site proposed at Dec RPH meeting and established 9 Dec.
- 16-17 Dec: first two articles (Mass Incarceration and Violence & Trauma) begun.
Stats from our first month:
- Editors: Eleven people joined and edited pages. Six made major edits (creating new pages or making major improvements).
- Articles Members wrote 19 articles, made over a hundred edits, and wrote help pages based on help requests from users.
- Visitors: 76 unique visitors visited the site 405 times (5.32 visits/visitor), and looked at 10.5 pages per visit (4,246 pageviews).
- Busiest days: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (followed by Monday).
- Busiest hours: 10 pm to 2 am.
- Most most viewed pages: (in order) main page, violence, mass incarceration, neoliberalism, and recent changes. (Next five: black panther party, abortion, anarchism, participation, and help).
Next steps
What should we prioritize going forward? What would you like to see happen in the next month?
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This Is Public Hell!
Our Radical Public Health declaration articulates Radical Public Health's (RPH) theme for this year: This Is Public Hell. We seek to show the common threads among a variety of often-overlooked inequities and to raise the critical consciousness that is a necessary foundation for learning and action.
First Month Recap
12 Jan: RPH wiki is more or less a month old!
What is On Topic?
What is on-topic on this wiki? That is an open question. Please participate in exploring it! Here are some thoughts so far:
Wiki Created
Welcome to the new Radical Public Health wiki! This is a part of our project to push graduate public health education to better serve the people of the world. We hope to develop documents to support class projects, capstone projects, and curriculum reform. Please consider participating — this project will require a vibrant and active community in order to succeed!
Over the next month or two, we need to:
Thoughts on how to use this site…Maybe we can start by sharing information about things we've already done, and build from there? So far we've had success at engaging people in person at events (and to a tiny extent, on Facebook). Instead of starting from scratch here, I think we might find it easier to start by using this as a tool to build upon our success at engaging people in person, and build up to engaging people online first.
We could make pages for each of the events we've held so far and providing the background information we shared before, during, and occasionally after those events. This could include general meetings. Detailing how those were structured could provide a resource that several people have already asked us for: how to start a Radical Public Health group in other schools. This could also help us with follow-up for (past and) future events. We can direct people to the event's wiki page, where we (and they! if they want) will share any resources that were mentioned at the event and guide people to further information if they're interested in probing deeper. That's something we haven't done well so far, so we can use this as a tool to improve.
Then once we've gotten started by building the site around what we've already done, we could begin developing pages around issues we haven't yet addressed through an event. Those might turn into in-person discussion meetings or even other kinds of events, or we can see what else. But I think that starting where we are, with what we've already built, might give us a more solid foundation — and hopefully some kind of framework — to build upon.
What do you guys think?
I am interested in education and public health, and am a master in both. I spent 40 years as a lead trainer in substance abuse prevention for several single state authorities. From the start my own training and education centered on the public health discipline applied to abuse and addiction. My instinct indicates, look for resources outside of academic settings or at least vet the academics. MDs are trained in drugs by pharma, and their prescribing practices are a vested interest. Schools of medicine like this. Public health agencies toe a political line, and schools train them to do that. Always follow the money. I am suggesting you look to include some grizzled heretics for they are the radicals. I understand the comfort of a support group; it's a need every soldier needs.
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