With medical documentaries gaining in popularity among the networks and cable stations, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is offering tips for developing top-notch medical
programs. It has produced its own documentary on how to develop compelling health and medical programming and offering it free to broadcast and medical professionals.
The subject of the documentary is the making of PBS's "Frontline: The Lost Children of Rockdale County," the winner of the second annual Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming. The program followed the lives of Rockdale teenagers who were involved in high-risk sexual activity and showed how
disconnected they were to their parents. The video features interviews with the production team, health experts and a Rockdale County mother and daughter.
For related information on PR's role in hosting medical documentaries, see HPRMN"s cover story.
(Peobody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kim Cretors, 706/542-8983)