Zaheed Damani and Kelsey MacLeod learned health promotion strategies while being reporters at CBC radio.
If you tuned into CBC Calgary or Edmonton last summer, you might have heard segments about why the Incredible Hulk is green or whether people in Calgary are receiving enough vitamin D. Thanks to the Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Media Fellowship program, two students got the opportunity to enhance the coverage of science and technology on the airwaves of Alberta by developing one-of-a-kind radio series.
The Media Fellowship program provides university students a unique opportunity to learn how events and ideas become news by spending a summer working at CBC Radio. Zaheed Damani, a University of Calgary student in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program, and Kelsey MacLeod, a student in medical school at the University of Alberta, were the recipients of the 2009 Media Fellowships. Damani was posted at CBC in Calgary, and MacLeod was at CBC in Edmonton.
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