Health & Development Comn Conference, Kenya, June 2011

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27-29 June 2011, Nairobi, Kenya: Health and Development Communication Conference

Most of the challenges facing countries of the Southern hemisphere are rooted in

either lack of information or poor utilization of available information. These

problems are, in turn, driven by inadequate information, inaccessibility of

information and poor skills in communicating the available information. This

situation is particularly pronounced in the field of health, where basic

information in areas such as public health, disease prevention, health promotion

and policies on health care is not in the public domain. Those who generate this

information have limited avenues to disseminate it to the public while those in

the media with the capacity to communicate the information sometimes lack the

necessary skills to access or appropriately communicate the information.

In recognition of this gap between the information rich and information poor,

several institutions, namely Daystar University, African Population Health and

Research Centre (APHRC), INTERNEWS, Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Institute

for International Journalism at Ohio University, The University of Nigeria at

Nsukka, the SBS Center Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC) at the

University of Massachusetts, and Orbicom-UNESCO project on Future Imperatives of

Communication and Information for Development and Social Change are jointly

organising a three day conference in Nairobi, Kenya to consider, among other

issues, the general status of health communication in the countries of the

South, and how such communication can be improved in order to effectively

empower the people.

For further information visit:

http://www.csschange.org/content/international-health-and-development-communicat\

ion-conference