• 1
    Medical Journalism

  • 2
    Key areas

  • 3
    Expected Outcome & Target Groups

  • 1.Medical Journalism

    • Medical Journalism

    The course exposes the candidate to the unique requirements of gathering, processing and dissemination of health information.

    The course builds the candidate in the principles of ethical communication using the traditional and new media channels. The course is meant to school the participants in the vocabulary of public health and the best standard practices of advocacy, to ensure that health communication messages are rooted in the needs, language and context of the ordinary

  • 2. Key areas

    • Key areas

    • Communicating Health issues effectively
    • Ethics and Medical Journalism
    • The role of the media in health promotion
    • Interpreting scientific reports/data for news
    • Engaging the community in health communication
    • Health communication and social media
    • Developing the health message (group work)
    • Presentation, Wrap up/ Evaluation, Closing

  • 3. Expected Outcome & Target Groups

    • Expected Outcome & Target Groups

    Expected Outcome

    • Participants acquire skills in effective health communication
    • Participants acquire skills to interpret scientific data for effective communication
    • Participants able to effectively report on health interventions and outcomes.

     

    Target Groups

    • Journalists
    • Students in media studies
    • Public Relations Officers
    • Employees of NGOs working in health
    • General Public