Our Community Broadcasting Network (OCBN)
Welcome to the Our Community Broadcasting Network. Having been involved in public affairs broadcasting on radio and public television featuring healthy lifestyle topics (see About Us page), I became aware of the issues impacting the families that make up the many diverse metro Denver communities. As the Vice Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Council at the Aurora Chamber of Commerce from 2018 to 2022, I decided to use my broadcasting experience to create OCBN to present Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) issues important to all of us. In 2019, I started producing podcasts showcasing the DEI programs of the organizations that presented to the Council monthly. Those podcasts are available at Our Community Podcasts. At the conclusion of my tenure with the D&I Council, I decided to return to my broadcasting roots and direct my focus toward the healthcare delivery and support systems that are integral to our health and wellness.
The issues of health and wellness have become much more complex since Covid 19 with a myriad of health disorders at crisis levels in communities throughout the country. My focus is getting information to the public featuring innovative practices in delivering services and patient/family support programs that help mitigate mental and physical health disorders and improve health outcomes throughout our communities. To accomplish this initiative, I have created the Health & Wellness Best Practices Podcast to feature behavioral and biological health issues and show the relationship between the two.
Podcast guests include health and wellness advocacy groups, healthcare providers, educational institutions, government agencies and elected officials, providing important information on health-related issues. I want to invite interested health professionals and advocates to be a guest on the Health & Wellness Best Practices Podcast to contribute content on health issues they are involved with. The Health & Wellness Best Practices Podcasts premiered in January 2025 and there are some older podcasts also posted on behavioral and biological health topics. Past programs include interviews and presentations by CU Anschutz Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research - Biobehavioral Mechanisms Explaining Disparities (BMED) Lab at Rice University - Colorado Resilience Collaborative at the University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology - the Alzheimer's Association - several interviews with medical doctors and researchers on brain health at the CU Anschutz School of Medicine, UCHealth hospital, and Children's Hospital Colorado - and book authors. All the podcasts are posted on the Health & Wellness Podcasts page as well as on YouTube and Bluesky.
Our Community Broadcasting Network has been appointed to the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM). The NNLM is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) which is administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). This honor is in recognition of the work OCBN has done producing programming featuring researchers, clinicians, and professors working at the medical schools, hospitals, and clinics on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
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The mission of the Network of the National Library of Medicine is to provide health information for communities throughout the United States. The purpose is to provide the public with easy access to health information so they can make informed decisions about their health. For more information about the NNLM appointment, visit the Newsroom page. Visit https://nlm.nih.gov to learn more about the National Library of Medicine.
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