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Why Public Health Benefits from Digital Volunteers

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Vlog with Dr. Jessica Sapp
Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, American Public University

Public health organizations have greatly benefited from the recruitment of digital volunteers. These digital volunteers engage with online communities to perform useful work such as providing community updates, collating data and fundraising, which allows healthcare professionals to concentrate on providing much-needed health services.

In this vlog, Dr. Jessica Sapp describes how technology has aided public health and five ways that public health organizations can use digital volunteers, including:

1. Social media promotion

2. Blogging and material development

3. Data entry

4. Fundraising

5. Virtual staff support

About the Speaker

Dr. Jessica Sapp is an associate professor in the School of Health Sciences at APU. She has over 13 years of experience in public health, working in various environments including government, hospitals, health insurance, community, international, corporate and academia. Jessica earned her D.P.H. in health policy and management at Georgia Southern University and a M.P.H. in health promotion, education and behavior at the University of South Carolina. She also has a B.S. in health science education from the University of Florida.

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