Members of the MyVoice team are in Seattle this week, presenting at the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) annual meeting. The conference brings together adolescent health professionals from around the world. MyVoice is there to share youth perspectives on topics like: transgender bathroom laws, sleep issues, how clinicians…
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You (or a high schooler you know) could be our next intern! See details below about our Summer 2018 MyVoice Scholars Internships Program. The online application can be found here. Applications due by June 1, 2018. We are looking for highly motivated high school students who are interested in the health sciences and health policy research to apply to our summer internship program. The…
Dr Tammy Chang pitching MyVoice – tech with pulse on youth public opinion on real time healthcare issues @umichmedicine @umfamilymed #a2newtech pic.twitter.com/idroKfnd7C — Connie Chang (@connieffmi) February 21, 2018 MyVoice was invited to pitch our cause at A2 New Tech, a monthly gathering of developers, technologists, designers, and entrepreneurs in…
MyVoice team members Melissa and Tammy wrote a piece for The Conversation, on the topic of U.S. election stress and American youth. Read, share the piece, and let us know what you think of the article! About the Source: The Conversation is nonprofit online news platform that connects academic researchers, subject experts,…
Portions of this announcement have been adapted from this post, by University of Michigan Communications Lead Lauren Love, on the Michigan Medicine Health Lab blog, from February 14, 2018. Published this month in the academic journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, this commentary paper offers insight into the impact of…
MyVoice’s first academic paper was published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research – Research Protocols. The paper discusses the unique methodological approach that we are taking to connect youth voice to leading decision makers through the use of text message surveys, participant recruitment via Instagram and Facebook, and mixed…
MyVoice isn’t a company. We’re not here to sell your opinions to companies for profit or to make money off your opinions at all. One of the greatest things about the project is that we’re here for you(th), with strong representation of youth (14-24 year olds) on our core MyVoice…
Granicus, one of the largest government technology service companies, has featured the MyVoice project as a “success story,” with an overview of how we are using Granicus products to launch our large-scale, ongoing text message surveys. It’s the classic story: Researcher meets Technology. Within minutes, Researcher knows that it’s the…
This summer, members of the MyVoice team have been busy meeting with politicians and policy makers, on behalf of their young MyVoice constituents. The mission of MyVoice is to amplify the voices of youth across the United States, connecting youth knowledge and experiences with people making major decisions that…
MyVoice has been making appearances at summer festivals across Michigan this summer. We’re spreading the word about the research and signing people up to participate. The picture below is from Makerfaire Detroit, which was so much fun! We had our spinning wheel of prizes and postcards for folks to…