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Dr. Arefa Cassoobhoy Named VP, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Editor for Everyday Health
Dr. Cassoobhoy will direct all content, including Black Health Facts Matter (#BlackHealthFacts) with Dr. Patrice Harris, Everyday Health’s Medical Editor at
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nDr. Cassoobhoy will direct all content, including Black Health Facts Matter (#BlackHealthFacts) with Dr. Patrice Harris, Everyday Health’s Medical Editor at Large\n\n NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nThe Everyday Health Group, a division of J2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM), announces the appointment of Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH as VP, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Editor for EverydayHealth.com, its flagship consumer health and wellness platform. Dr. Cassoobhoy, a physician and health communications specialist with expertise in the digital health media industry and a background in public health, will direct Everyday Health’s content and product development in tandem with fostering deeper and more strategic relationships with the leading medical and wellness experts of today and the future.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210603005814/en/Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH (Photo: Business Wire)\nMost recently, Dr. Cassoobhoy teamed up with Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, Everyday Health’s Medical Editor in Chief at Large, to build upon Everyday Health’s Black Health Facts Matter (#BlackHealthFacts) initiative for its one-year anniversary. A series of short, up-close, and personal videos, health facts and resources exploring topics related to mental health and the Black community — such as stigma, mistrust, finding a healthcare professional who looks like you, and the persona of the strong Black woman — will debut on EverydayHealth.com starting June 14 and culminate on Juneteenth (June 19), the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.\n\n“She gets it,” says Dr. Harris, a renowned psychiatrist, public health advocate, and the first Black female President of the American Medical Association, of Dr. Cassoobhoy. “For those of us doctors who have seen firsthand the structural and social determinants of health impacting our patients, we can acknowledge the progress that’s occurred, and we are emboldened together to continue to raise awareness and influence real change.”\n\n“We are excited that Dr. Cassoobhoy has joined Everyday Health,” says Nan-Kirsten Forte, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Everyday Health Consumer. “We have a mutual passion and vision for the power of digital health and wellness and its equal ...