BetterBio
Reporting life science and health news that matters to YOU, your FAMILY and your COMMUNITY, while teaching you how to report your own stories, as well. Together, we will make biotechnology better for all of us by enabling the full participation of individuals and communities in biotechnology science and policy.
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About BetterBio
BetterBio seeks to provide communities with news, education and opportunities to be heard on our site and during our summer program training young citizen science reporters in Boston, NYC and Baltimore. Founder Khadijah Britton's story: “I did not grow up dreaming to one day wear a lab coat. When I won the science fair my freshman year of high school, I expressed my surprise to the sponsor of the fair. 'I'm a writer,' I explained, at which he brightened: 'Great! Do you want a job?' Thus began my career in science-based reporting, as a columnist in his biomedical company's newsletter. Over the years, I realized my obsession with translating between this industry and the general public is rare – and underfunded. It is also personal. The knowledge imbalances and health disparities that inspired BetterBio were the same ones that led my mother to innocently follow doctor's orders, giving me round after round of antibiotics when I was young. Since I was fourteen, I have spent most of my life fighting antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, sometimes missing school for months at a time. I am dedicated to helping others avoid such medically unnecessary fates, and to empowering them as agents that create a healthy world.”
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