---
title: "Preventing Stroke and Heart Disease: New and Emerging Opportunities and Innovations"
description: "Susannah Fox will discuss how adults living with chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and heart disease are - or are not - using the internet."
date: "2009-11-12"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/11/12/preventing-stroke-and-heart-disease-new-and-emerging-opportunities-and-innovations/"
categories:
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Medicine & Health"
---

# Preventing Stroke and Heart Disease: New and Emerging Opportunities and Innovations

Susannah Fox will be a panelist at *Preventing Stroke and Heart Disease: Connecting Traditional and Emerging Approaches to Change Behavior*, a one and a half day workshop sponsored by NINDS, NHLBI and NIA of the National Institutes of Health. The workshop will be held November 12-13, 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland. The panel, "New and Emerging Opportunities and Innovations," will be moderated by Tom Beall, Managing Director of Ogilvy Public Relations, Worldwide.

Susannah will present "Health 2.0: How Health Consumers Gather, Create, and Share Information Using The Internet":

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/preventing-stroke-and-heart-disease

Members of the panel include:

-  [Susannah Fox](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Experts/Susannah-Fox.aspx), Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Health 2.0: How Health Consumers Gather, Create, and Share Information Using The Internet
- Janice Nall, M.B.A., Director, Division of E-Health Marketing National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Harnessing the Power of Communications Technologies
- Bob McKinnon, M.A., Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YELLOWBRICKROAD: Emerging Marketing and Advertising Approaches that Support Change
- Sendhil Mullainathan, Ph.D., Harvard University: Behavioral Economics-Affecting Change through Financial Incentives and Motivators
- Environmental and Policy Changes to Advance Health and Achieve Health Equity