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	<title>Francisco J Grajales III</title>
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	<description>Welcom to my home on the web...</description>
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		<title>21st Winter Olympic Public Health Surveillance: A Case of Technology-Enabled Knowledge Translation in Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the H1N1 Pandemic still fresh in our minds, the Winter Olympics have zeroed the spotlight on Vancouver. With 70,000 visitors per day, 5,000 athletes and staff, 1,350 Paralympic athletes, 10,000 media, 25,000 volunteers, and 8,000 security personnel, a single disease outbreak can become catastrophic. Historically, mass gatherings have been particularly sensitive to vector outbreaks. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2010/02/21st-winter-olympic-public-health-surveillance-a-case-of-technology-enabled-knowledge-translation-in-practice/</link>
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		<title>Cisco’s 2010 eHealth Predictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first decade of the 21st century is here! For the agog-types, it is the infamous year of the White Tiger and the 21st Winter Olympic Games, which will take place in our beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. With this first article of the year, I won’t focus on your New Year resolutions or the gadgets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2010/02/cisco%e2%80%99s-2010-ehealth-predictions/</link>
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		<title>Thank you for your vote and let the pinging begin!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, colleagues, fellow students, professoriate and staff of the University of British Columbia,
It was with great excitement that I was recently informed of your decision; with your vote and support I have been elected senator representing the Graduate Student Society for the 2010-2011 academic year.
I would like to thank you for giving me this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2010/02/thank-you-for-your-vote-and-let-the-pinging-begin/</link>
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		<title>Vote for Cisco. Ping your voice to Senate!</title>
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Hello fellow UBC graduate students. My name is Cisco (@ciscogiii on twitter) and I am running for the senate position with the intent of making graduate student problems and ideals heard by the university. These maybe as simple as (dis)approving a course or as complex as ensuring an academic appeal is given the fairness it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2010/02/vote-for-cisco-ping-your-voice-to-senate/</link>
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		<title>2009 Season&#8217;s Greetings</title>
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One year later, with many lessons learned and &#62;62,000Km travelled; I am a little older and wiser, a little more cynical, but most importantly, I am very thankful.
It was the people like you that took the time and made a difference in my life. Wether you taught me how diplomatic protocol and history were made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/12/2009-seasons-greetings/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Avatars in Participatory Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a New Media Geek, I love to see different implementations of futuristic healthcare. Below the New Media Medicine section of the MIT Media Lab is definitely ahead of its time (as usual).
My only question is: If better patient outcomes are not about the technology but implementation, what sort of licencing costs will be required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/06/the-future-of-avatars-in-participatory-medicine/</link>
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		<title>Twitter in Medicine and Public Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I too often get asked &#8220;why do you even bother wasting your time with Twitter?&#8221; However, as an early adopter I still remember the day when I was socked with information overload of the few people I followed.
Today, I am followed by and follow over four hundred tweeps and cannot imagine a day without greeting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/06/twitter-in-medicine-and-public-health/</link>
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		<title>The Advance of m-Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
mHealth can have a lot of applications in Public Health, particularly with the growing penetration rate of mobiles in developing nations.
This presentation provides a wonderful introduction to the subject.

 
Stay tuned for more posts on mHealth.
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		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/06/the-advance-of-mhealth/</link>
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		<title>Got Public Health?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am presently in Debrecen (Hungary) visiting a friend/Medicine 2.0 expert, Bertalan Meskó, aka @Berci, and during my train travels, I came across the following sight:
Miasma or not, feces and bodily fluids go straight from the orifice and are funneled to the train tracks.
For us public health gurus, I thought it would make you say: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/04/got-public-health/</link>
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		<title>A Walk in the Park&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an exercise physiologist, I was trained to &#8220;practice what I preached&#8221;, that is, one must be in excellent fitness before being able to tell a patient: &#8220;walk 10,000 steps a day and eat low caloric density foods&#8221;.
Six months after officially graduating from my old university (long story), I finally bought myself a top-of-the line pedometer and began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.franciscograjales.com/2009/03/a-walk-in-the-park/</link>
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