Science Communication & Applied Epidemiology Partnerships
Dr. Eeks (ErinKate Stair, MD, MPH) here.
I partner with companies, schools, foundations, and health-focused organizations to communicate complex science clearly, responsibly, and without hype.
Through project-based work and retainers, I help translate research into thoughtful public-facing storytelling, real-world public health action, and policy-relevant insight and implementation, particularly in the context of outbreaks and public health emergencies. I also bring experience working with digital health interventions and leveraging evidence-based tools in real-world settings to support more effective public health response and communication. This work is grounded in my background in applied epidemiology, health communication, outbreak response, and federal public health contracting.
Who This Is For:
This work may be a good fit if you are part of:
*Organizations frustrated when good science gets lost in the noise
*Teams who want creative, rigorous research translation with real-world impact
*Groups focused on trust, preparedness, and effective response
What I Do:
I provide applied epidemiology and creative science communication support through:
*Sponsored and project-based podcast episodes and series (Causes or Cures)
*Creative science storytelling and explainers for public audiences
*Translation of research and outbreak findings into real-world public health insight
*Accuracy review and evidence-based fact-checking for scientific content
*Editorial and messaging guidance for complex topics
*Crisis and emergency risk communication
*Bridging research and digital health tools into actionable public health strategies
My background includes public health training and hands-on work in outbreak response, applied epidemiology, and health communications.
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 limited to maintain quality and focus. If you are interested, set up an intro call sooner than later, because my schedule fills up quickly.
Interested in Working Together?
Please email me and we can go from there: erin@bloomingwellness.com
Unpaid collaborations are not available at this time.
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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 My 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
If you are interested in exploring working together, please message Dr. Eeks (Erin) at erin@bloomingwellness.com. From there, we can set up 30 minutes to chat about your goals.
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)
My 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