Scientific Communication that Builds Trust:
We’re a small team that helps companies, universities, foundations, and public health organizations communicate health science without making people’s eyes glaze over.
Working from a not-particularly-glamorous apartment-turned-office in New York City, we translate complex research into clear, credible communication that builds trust, informs decisions, and occasionally reminds people that science can actually be interesting.
Who This Is For:
This work may be a good fit if you are part of:
*A company, university, foundation, or public health organization working to communicate complex health science clearly and credibly.
*A team translating research into real-world decisions, policy, practice, or public understanding.
*An organization that values scientific rigor, plain language, trust, and meaningful impact.
What We Do:
We provide applied epidemiology and creative science communication support through:
*Translation of complex research into clear, accessible communication for professional and public audiences
*Scientific accuracy review and evidence-based fact-checking
*Strategic messaging and editorial guidance for complex health and scientific topics
*Crisis and emergency risk communication
*Public health strategy informed by applied epidemiology and implementation science
*Expert interviews, podcast hosting, webinar hosting, and panel moderation
*Creative science storytelling and educational content for digital, print, audio, and multimedia platforms
How Partnerships Work:
Most partnerships are structured as monthly retainers or project-based.
This allows for:
• Deeper understanding of your work
• Ongoing guidance rather than one-off deliverables
• Consistency and editorial care
Partnerships are intentionally limited so we can provide each client with thoughtful, high-quality support. If you’d like to explore working together, we’d be happy to schedule an introductory conversation.
Interested in Working Together?
Please email Dr. Eeks and we can go from there: erin@bloomingwellness.com
Unpaid collaborations are not available at this time.
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The Causes or Cures Podcast:
Dr. Eeks’ podcast Causes or Cures is a halmark of creative science “plain language” communication that features prominent researchers, doctors and scientists from around the globe. It is a completley independent endeavor and ranked as a top public health podcast.
For Health Communication, Most of the Battle is Making Science Understandable.
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is the importance of how science is communicated. Effective health communication is critical, whether it be for building trust, motivating a target audience to make specific health choices, education and risk management, or gaining more exposure, interest and funding for research studies.
Health communication should always be data-driven, with high emphasis placed on maintaining accuracy while still ensuring that you resonate with the target population. If something is uncertain, that uncertainty should be communicated in a way that does not stoke anxiety, or down the road, anger and distrust.
In the field of health communications, tons of people are great at preaching to the choir. In other words, they’re great at something that is easy, which is connecting to people who already think like them. There is no art in that. The art of health communication is connecting with the “other choirs” who don’t think like you.
Check Out Some of Dr. Eeks Health Communication Blogs:
The Precautionary Principle: Locked in the Trunk on a ‘Merican Chemical Joyride
War and the Art of the Napkin Risk/Benefit Analysis
The Ridiculous Panic Over Misinformation
Truth-Seeking: A Caveat to Be Aware Of
What Killed Skip? A Story of Causation
Mastering Where a Short Attention Span Meets Public Health Science:
Those Amazing Sounding Headlines (Absolute Risk Reduction vs Relative Risk Reduction)
Case Fatality Vs Mortality (Using Bird Flu as an Example.)
We Used to Do What on Planes? (Part of the “Weird Public Health” Series.)
The Plural of Anecdote isn’t Misinformation (What an Anecdote Does and What it Doesn’t)
Dr. Eeks’ Portfolio Includes:
- Task and Technical Lead on National & International Public Health Projects Related to epidemic response:
- Public Health Response Interventions: From Stage 1(Research) to Planning, Implementation, Evaluation and Feedback.
- Rapid Assessment & Action
- Cross-Agency Collaboration
- Crisis Communication
- Resource Allocation and Logistics
- Epidemiological Intelligence Reports:
- Data Analysis and Synthesis
- Report Writing & Recommendations
- Health Risk Assessments
- Situational Updates & Alerts
- Scientific and Health Communications:
- Real-time Situation Reports
- Articles, white papers, blogs, product reviews, social media
- Podcast hosting for media and news company
- Medical and Scientific fact-checking
- Development of Health Messaging, Message Testing & Data Reports
- Creative, Evidence-based Storytelling & Media Campaigns
- Target Audience Intel Reports
- Stakeholder Communication
- Health Risk Communication
- Plain language Summaries for Media
- Internal Communication & Knowledge Sharing
- Monitoring Public Perception
- Epidemiological Data Visualization
- Advisory Documents
- Human interest stories
- Creative, punchy, accurate essays laced in irony and humor
- Creative, punchy podcasts and short videos designed to connect
If interested, contact Dr. Eeks directly at erin@bloomingwellness.com