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Ethnic health news service launched

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney April 18, 2008 02:10 PM

A new health-reporting service designed to reach immigrants and non-English speakers was launched today by the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

The New England Ethnic Newswire will be free for ethnic media outlets in New England. Plans call for stories to be translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, or Haitian Creole. Its goal is to transmit health information to underserved populations, according to UMass.

The initiative’s media partners include the Boston Haitian Reporter, El Planeta, El Mundo, the Brazilian Journal, WSRO-AM, and the Mattapan Reporter. Eduardo de Oliveira, a columnist for the Nashua Telegraph and a former editor of the Brazilian Journal, has been chosen by the news service as a health-reporting fellow of the UMass Center for Media and Society.

The news program is funded by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, the Boston Foundation, Partners HealthCare, and the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation.

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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.