A CCP staffer reflects on her experiences working in Liberia during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, when more than 11,000 people in three countries ultimately died.
Five years ago, a group of pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and nonprofits pledged to work together to, by 2020, eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases. Taken together, these communicable diseases impact more than 1.5 billion people around the world, particularly those living in poverty, without access
In the five months since the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was awarded the five-year, $300-million Breakthrough ACTION project by the U.S. Agency for International Development, seven countries have already signed on to the social and behavioral change project. Along with those seven countries
For nearly two months, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have streamed into Bangladeshi refugee camps from neighboring Myanmar, where this Muslim minority is being forced from their homes. A few weeks ago, a team of three Bangladesh-based staff from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication
In a public health emergency, people need information: they need updates on the response, and perhaps more importantly, a set of actions they can take to protect themselves, their families, and communities. Communicating this information in a culturally-appropriate and empowering way, so that people not
Nearly half a million people die each year from malaria, a preventable and treatable condition. Bed nets are an accessible, cost-effective and proven method to reduce malaria infection, yet bed net use varies widely between communities. A number of cultural, social, and environmental factors impact
Teah Doegmah and Marietta Yekee, Program Officers in Liberia for CCP’s Health Communication Capacity Collaborative, embody CCP’s trademark expertise, innovation and creativity. Since their work shifted abruptly to the Ebola outbreak in July, they are using their expertise in health communication to fight the deadly disease.
In an article on CNN this week, Susan Krenn, Director of CCP explained the importance of using entertainment education to transmit health messages. “This type of programming [entertainment education] really allows you to use creativity and pull people in for the value of the entertainment,
The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) on Wednesday launched the Ebola Communication Network (ECN), an online collection of Ebola resources, materials and tools from and for the global health community. As global health experts continue to grapple with the rapid spread of the Ebola virus
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) have created a new instrument to measure children’s television program exposure and recall. The study examined the effect of Alam Simsim, the Egyptian version of the children’s educational television series
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