Health 2.0 and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently named Ozioma, an online cancer information tool from the Health Communication Research Laboratory (HCRL) at Washington University in St. Louis, one of two winners of a national contest.
The Ozioma News Service was chosen a winner of the Enabling Community Use of Data for Cancer Prevention and Control Challenge, a part of the 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.
The Ozioma tool helps reporters and media relations professionals create localized cancer stories for specific populations in specific communities.
View a brief video about Ozioma.
“For those who write about and report on health, providing a central location to access community-level health data can increase the likelihood that they’ll include these data in their stories,” says Charlene A. Caburnay, PhD, research assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University.
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