The new five-year USAID-funded program – called ReachHealth – is designed to help communities in the Pacific nation reduce unmet needs for family planning and decrease teen pregnancy rates.
Sometimes communication is all we have to effectively respond in real time to emergency health threats such as the Nipah virus in India, writes CCP’s Executive Director Susan Krenn.
Scientific evidence doesn’t seem to carry the same weight it used to. In the new era of “alternative facts,” it can be especially difficult to effectively communicate with people in order to convince them to behave in their best interests. Take the case of childhood
There’s no emoji for the mosquito, the deadly insect that spreads malaria, Zika and more. It’s needed for communication and outreach, proponents say. A CCP staffer has proposed it be adopted.
Dr. Tilly Gurman, who serves as research director for the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), was interviewed by NPR’s Goats and Soda blog on the importance of hashtags in global health campaigns. Gurman has published research on the use of social networking sites in health
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