Well being Union Broadcasts Inaugural Social Well being Awards Honorees

Winners, who epitomize efficient use of social well being to affect well being journeys, to be celebrated in particular person at Fierce Pharma Advertising Awards

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Health Union, the chief in social well being, has introduced the inaugural class of Social Well being Awards honorees. The Social Well being Awards empower and have fun well being leaders who’re important to the continued conversations and connections made via social well being – the dynamic, real-time motion folks take to seek out significant connections and share data that affect their well being journey.

Well being leaders have been nominated throughout 10 classes designed to showcase the huge variety of the affected person and caregiver neighborhood and the varied types of advocacy throughout all situation areas and platforms. The winners, whose profiles and accomplishments might be seen here, in every class are:

• Advocacy Trailblazer: Melissa Talwar, fibromyalgia affected person chief
• Finest Workforce: Fibromyalgia Care Society of America
• Caregiving Champion: Elle Cole, sickle cell illness and sort 1 diabetes affected person chief
• Neighborhood Cultivator: Natalie Hayden, inflammatory bowel illness/Crohn’s illness affected person chief
• Inventive Contributor: Erica Carrasco, migraine affected person chief
• Healthcare Collaborator: Ella Balasa, cystic fibrosis affected person chief
• Lifetime Achievement: Kristal Kent, fibromyalgia affected person chief
• Revolutionary Researcher: Aaron Blocker, inflammatory bowel illness/Crohn’s illness and hypophosphatasia (uncommon illness) affected person chief
• Rookie of the Yr: Jill King, disabilities and power ache affected person chief
• Social Media Grasp: Invisible Hypothyroidism

“At Well being Union, we’ve lengthy understood that sufferers and caregivers are the people who find themselves driving distinctive and impactful conversations about well being,” stated Amrita Bhowmick, Well being Union’s chief neighborhood officer. “The Social Well being Awards give us the chance to highlight – and have fun – among the finest examples of well being leaders whose laborious work, advocacy and dedication to social well being make a major affect on well being journeys at each the person and neighborhood degree.”

Nominations for the Social Well being Awards have been open to affected person and caregiver leaders who’re making a distinction in healthcare as energetic members of a web-based neighborhood, primarily based within the U.S. and are at the least 18 years outdated. Nominees have been first judged by their friends to find out the six finalists for every class. The 60 finalists have been then evaluated by greater than 70 healthcare trade thought leaders to find out the winners. The honorees have been introduced on Aug. 25 throughout Connexion, a Well being Union digital occasion that connects and empowers affected person leaders.

The winners are invited to affix Well being Union on stage on the Social Well being Awards celebration on the 2022 Fierce Pharma Advertising Awards ceremony, which can happen Oct. 19 on the annual Digital Pharma East convention in Philadelphia. Extra details about the Social Well being Awards might be discovered at SocialHealthNetwork.com/Awards.

About Well being Union

Health Union is the confirmed trade chief driving and amplifying social well being. Because the premier social well being firm, solely Well being Union encourages the dynamic, real-time motion folks take to seek out significant connections and share data that affect their well being journey. The corporate reaches thousands and thousands of individuals via the biggest portfolio of condition-specific online health communities (e.g., Migraine.com, MultipleSclerosis.web, LungCancer.web) and well being leaders – addressing nearly each situation and offering the knowledge, connection and help they want.

SOURCE Well being Union