Center for Health Communication

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The uphill battle to change behavior and the public’s perception of their own distracted driving — “Think Out Loud” talks with Jay Winsten

September 29, 2017 — “Think Out Loud,” Oregon Public Broadcasting: A new law goes into effect on October 1 in Oregon making it illegal for drivers to do almost anything with their mobile device (other than hands-free calls). Jay Winsten, associate dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Health Communication … Continue reading “The uphill battle to change behavior and the public’s perception of their own distracted driving — “Think Out Loud” talks with Jay Winsten”

‘It’s up to the common sense of jurors’

September 19, 2017 — The Boston Globe: “Under a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts police officers can no longer cite their subjective on-scene observations or sobriety tests to conclude in court testimony that a driver was under the influence of marijuana…the court found there is no scientific consensus those tests definitively prove … Continue reading “‘It’s up to the common sense of jurors’”