YouTube is Expanding Its Offering of High-quality Health Content Available for Viewers

This past January, YouTube announced that Dr. Garth Graham, Director of Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships, will be leading a team to bring high-quality evidence-based healthcare content YouTube.

Dr. Graham and his team will be working in partnership with American Public Health Association, Cleveland Clinic, The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health, Mayo Clinic, Osmosis, Psych Hub, and the National Academy of Medicine.

In today’s reality, everyone seeks the internet for health information, whether it is to self-diagnose or to read up on to best ways to naturally building your immune system. Doctors and clinicians cannot avoid that when they meet with a patient, this patient has already searched the internet for health information. YouTube with Dr. Garth Graham’s help, hopes to be a source of education rather than misinformation. The goal of this initiative is to “address the evolving digital health needs of consumers and continue connecting people with credible health information.”

Dr. Garth Graham says, “My team’s mission is to empower people to live their healthiest lives through knowledge, support and inspiration. Most importantly, we want to ensure access to credible, evidence-based information from trusted sources. But with so much information out there, the question becomes: How do you know which information is credible? And how do you find sources that make the complicated medical jargon more accessible and easy-to-understand?”

At Peer Support Solutions, we welcome YouTube’s initiative. We believe the internet is a great source of accessibility, especially when it comes to peer support. Connecting people with lived experiences to support one another should be simple as a quick Google search. We hope further awareness about peer support spreads with YouTube’s new initiative.

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