This document discusses how social networks can impact health and how sharing information through social networks can help save lives. It notes that social networks function through integration and regulation and how they have impacted the spread of obesity and happiness. It provides examples of how social networks have helped with chronic health conditions and infectious disease epidemics. It outlines four steps of contact, connect, cultivate, and communicate to utilize social networks for health and provides contact information for authors studying social networks and health.

1. Social Networks and Health: How Facebook Can Save Your Life

2. What do you guys think about universal healthcare? Universal healthcare? More like universal who-cares! Social Networks: Why do we care?

3. Why we Share: The Collective The Human Super Organism

4. Networks: Me, You, and Everyone We Know Your Friend’s Friend’s Friends Your Friend’s Friends Your Friends

5. Network Functions Integration

6. Network Functions Regulation

7. The Spread of Obesity Read this article here:bit.ly/ObesitySpread

9. The Spread of Happiness Read this article here: bit.ly/HappySpread

10. Networks of the Past

11. The New Network Paradigm Always On

12. The New Network Paradigm Always Connected

13. or: How I learned to stop worrying and love social networks

14. Information Sharing

15. Examples in Action Chronic Health Conditions

16. Examples in Action Infectious Disease Epidemics

17. 1. Contact How to Save Your Life 2. Connect 3. Cultivate

18. 4. COMMUNICATE Ask Listen Contribute

19. You Can't Pick Your Parents

20. You Can Pick Your Friends

21. You Can Also Change Your Friends Behavior

22. Want to learn more? James Fowler jhfowler.ucsd.edu Nicholas Christakis Bit.ly/NC_TED

23. Ernesto Ramirez erramirez@gmail.com www.ernestoramirez.org @e_ramirez Thank You