In this week’s episode Eoin chats with Chris Norwood.

Chris Norwood is a prize-winning author and healthcare advocate.

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Health People - which is a Community Preventative Health Institute (healthpeople.org).

Chris was one of the first journalists to sound an alarm about HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s before it was widely recognized as a deadly epidemic.

She also authored the first book on women and HIV, “Advice for Life: A Woman’s Guide to AIDS.” Which came out in 1987, and became the inspiration for her founding Health People (then known as Health Force) in 1990 as a women’s prevention and support program.

Chris is a pioneer in using peer education to enable communities to take control of their health, and has been recognized nationally and internationally for her work in HIV/AIDS and peer-delivered health education (including Diabetes).

In 2005, Chris was one of just 1,000 women nominated worldwide for a special Nobel Peace Prize for women’s work in community health.

She is a member of the Community Coordinating Council for the Bronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities (Bronx CREED), Center of Excellence at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx-Einstein Alliance for Tobacco-Free Health (Bronx BREATHES), the Community Advisory Board of Albert Einstein College of Medicine AIDS Research Center, the Chronic Disease Prevention Group of the NY State Health Department Prevention Agenda Committee. She is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Public Health Association of New York City.

In this episode Eoin and Chris focus a lot on the reality of insulin access and affordability in the US, something which may be quite alien to you, if you live somewhere else and receive state funded insulin and Diabetes supplies.

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Broadcast on:

26 Apr 2023