This week, New York City launched its latest provocative public health campaign: The Real Cost of Teen Pregnancy. The campaign quickly drew fire from Planned Parenthood, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, to name a few. It also sparked a lot of conversation at CommunicateHealth. The buzz around this [...]
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Some Thoughts on “The Real Cost of Teen Pregnancy” Campaign
By Perrie Briskin | March 15, 2013DHCX — A True Extravaganza
By Mary Ann Petti | February 25, 2013We’re back from this year’s Digital Health Communication Extravaganza (DHCX) in sunny Florida and we’re feeling excited, inspired, and ready to use what we’ve learned! DHCX is a great place for CommunicateHealth to mix and mingle — in person and on Twitter — with the digital health cream of the crop. Jay Bernhardt, the conference [...]
CommunicateHealth to Host First-Ever Health Literacy Hackathon!
By Mary Ann Petti | September 14, 2012On October 13 and 14, the inaugural CommunicateHealth Health Literacy Hackathon will challenge participants to create a technology-driven tool to improve how people understand and use health information. It could be an app, a website, an interactive online tool, a media campaign, or something else! Inspiration and examples will be provided. Participants will have 1 [...]
10 Things Every Health Communicator Needs to Know
By Kimber | September 12, 2012Last week at the Plain Talk in Complex Times conference in Arlington, VA, behavioral psychologist Dr. Susan Weinschenk shared her top tips for designing intuitive and engaging communications. It takes more than clear communication to incite behavior change, and Dr. Weinschenk – a.k.a. @thebrainlady on Twitter – believes that people’s unconscious beliefs and expectations have [...]
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