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Jeanne Blake is a medical reporter, author, and affiliated faculty member of the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School. As president and founder of Family Health Productions and Blake Works, Inc. she produces, publishes and distributes research-based media to help families talk about the challenges young people face.
Blake is host of About Health TV, the award-winning, nationally distributed program. She is author and publisher of the Words Can Work® series of booklets.
Blake's films are integrated into wellness, health and education programs for young people, parents and professionals internationally.
Blake provides training and consulting services in the field of parent/child communication and speaks nationally to parents, and work/life and health care professionals in corporate and community settings. Blake has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, and CNN. She has been featured on National Public Radio and Bloomberg Radio.
From 1984 to 1991 Blake was a medical reporter and anchor at Boston's CBS-TV affiliate where she earned the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award, was recognized by Americans for Democratic Action, and honored by the Human Rights Campaign for her coverage of health care issues.
Blake's book Risky Times: How to be AIDS-Smart and Stay Healthy, published by Workman in 1991 was named to the American Library Association's list of Best Books for the Young Adult Reader.
Blake lives in New York City and Massachusetts. She is the Public Member on the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. She is volunteer president of the The Perfect Storm Foundation.
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