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NY Times: Delight and Unease Over Law on Student Vaccinations

Among the things 22-year old Jamie Schanbaum could not have anticipated three years ago was standing two inches taller, winning...
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Texas Tribune: Texas Universities Prepping for New Meningitis Law

Among the things 22-year old Jamie Schanbaum has now that she could not have anticipated three years ago are 2...
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NBC Laredo- Morning Chat: Meningitis Survivor Warns of Dangers

Mother-daughter team, Jamie & Patsy Schanbaum, come by our studios to share their experience with meningitis. Jamie contracted meningitis within...
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KERA: Focus on Health: A Shot In The Arm For Coeds

College freshmen across Texas are preparing to move into dorms over the next couple of weeks. They'll need sheets, towels,...
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Ex-Meningitis Patient Is Pro-Vaccine

There's a new law in Texas that says all college students must get a meningitis vaccine before heading off to...
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NBC:DFW- Jamie’s Law Expanded After Death of A&M Student

State Sen. Wendy Davis talks about the expansion of a Texas law that now requires all college students to be...
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If your audience needs to hear this, let's talk

Conferences, campuses, committees, podcasts. If your audience needs to hear this, Jamie can reach them. She survived something most people can barely imagine, and she talks about it with a directness and a sense of humor that cut straight through the usual gravity of public health messaging. Audiences trust her because she has earned the right to say what she says.

She is just as comfortable delivering legislative testimony as she is headlining a university keynote or joining a panel on life after limb loss. Whatever the format, people walk away informed, disarmed, and far more likely to actually do something about it.