Elizabeth Futrell’s professional passions – writing and public health – truly merged in 2015, with the germ of an idea. She had seen the popularity and impact of Humans of New York, a blog featuring portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York
News Deeply, a news website devoted to in-depth reporting on what they consider to be the world’s most pressing issues, is highlighting two leaders from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) on its most recent “Nine Experts to Watch” list focused on family
Personal stories are powerful. They can open new worlds and ideas, move people on issues they’d never considered and, ultimately, change behaviors. The newest tool from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), produced by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) project, harnesses this
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health recently opened voting for 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders, their annual event to recognize outstanding young leaders in family planning. This year, we’re excited to announce that eight CCP
CCP is generating demand among youth for family planning methods and services in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by helping give voice to young people who have stories to tell and advice to share with their peers, their parents and health providers. Until now,
According to the December issue of Global Health: Science and Practice, despite its apparent benefits, vasectomy demand among men has plateaued globally. The featured article suggests that the key to demand generation relies on vasectomy-specific messaging and broader social and behavior change communication (SBCC) efforts
Research shows that funding for and uptake of long-acting and permanent contraceptive methods (LAPMs) significantly increased in six districts in East Java and West Nusa Tenggara as a result of evidence-based advocacy. After three years of targeted advocacy efforts led by the Improving Contraceptive Method
Last week, along with several other colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), I attended the 17th General Membership Meeting of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) in Seattle, Washington. In addition to collecting interviews for the Family Planning Voices initiative (www.fpvoices.org),
How can we get more clients to health services? What can we do to improve client-provider interactions? How can we increase the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors? These are questions we in the health service field grapple with on a regular basis. Solutions to
Widespread use of mobile phones in low-income countries has created momentum to use these devices as a tool for provider-to-provider communication, particularly to strengthen supervisory systems for community health workers (CHWs), who often work in households or in rural settings, beyond the confines of a
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