faces: An Introduction
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Cooking Up A Story is excited and honored to partner with The Center For Health Research (TCHR), and to share their stories with Cooking Up A Story audiences. TCHR is funded by Kaiser Permanente, and by individual research grants provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and others. The main goal of TCHR is to conduct medical research, and help implement better methods into practice that improve the lives of individuals throughout the world.
This new segment, faces, will be indistinguishable from the style of our main show, though it may not pertain directly to food. TCHR is paying us to produce these stories, and in addition to allowing us to share them with you, their funding is helping us to continue producing Cooking Up A Story. This organization is also doing something rare: they are allowing us to tell their stories as we see fit to do. They are providing us with research topics to explore, and names of their researchers to contact, so that we may develop the stories in a natural and organic manner. They believe, as do we, people are looking for personal stories and information that are real, and that are truthful. We are proud to announce the start of faces: putting a human face to TCHR scientists at work, and those who participate in their studies.
