“I think in order to be effective change agents and advocates for global health, we need to tell a story quite persuasively and we need to learn to do that through various forms of media, whether it’s TV, social media or investigative journalism,” Michele Barry, director of Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, said of the Stanford-NBC News Global Health Media Fellowship.

The first fellow is Joyce Ho, a Stanford med student who has worked in the communications office of the World Health Organization in Geneva. As part of the fellowship, Ho will spend time at NBC News in New York, work with a documentary photographer, and she’ll collaborate with Ning, the online social media group.

It’s a little weird that the Twitter account and blog associated with the fellowship (listed at the end of the story) both lead to dead links. But since the article is dated Nov. 21, I am thinking the links might be activated then.