Nairobi: Health & Development Communication Conference

[Guest guest]

Health & Development Communication Conference

Newly Opened Piccolo Bar

On behalf of the conference local organizing committee and the institutional

partners, namely the Ministry of Information and Communication, African

Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Daystar University, Internews,

Population Research Bureau among others, I welcome you to this page of the

Health and Development Communication Conference to be held this coming June.

The Health and Development Communication conference will be the first event held

by Communication Africa, a group of partners drawn together by their concern for

the dissemination of information crucial for health and development in Africa.

Through bringing together media workers and owners, scholars, health and

development workers, as well as policy makers in Africa, Communication Africa

hopes to establish a forum that continues beyond this conference to reflect on

and discuss the importance of communication in meeting Africa's health and

development goals. However, we do not limit our discourse to Africa. We believe

that policies, practices and scholarship from across the globe, and from where

health and development work is ongoing, can only enrich the human experience.

In addition to the conference meetings and deliberations, we will hold a two-day

pre-conference training for journalists and student journalists to examine how

health and development issues are treated in the media. We are privileged to

have a team of experienced and qualified colleagues, drawn from both the US and

Kenya, to offer this important training. This workshop will be followed by three

days of intense examination of topics related to health and development

communication through daily plenary sessions, break out groups, and workshops.

We will also hold events specifically for bringing together communication

industry players and policy players to critique their role in society, the

effect of their policies on lives and the social impact of the information

dissemination. We will soon post the program of the conference on this site.

We are delighted that you stopped by this page and trust that you will be

interested in the conference and become part of a global discussion on the

issues that inform health and development work.

http://communicationafrica.org/index.php?option=com_k2 & view=item & id=42:health-de\

velopment-communication-conference

[Guest guest]

Health & Development Communication Conference

Newly Opened Piccolo Bar

On behalf of the conference local organizing committee and the institutional

partners, namely the Ministry of Information and Communication, African

Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Daystar University, Internews,

Population Research Bureau among others, I welcome you to this page of the

Health and Development Communication Conference to be held this coming June.

The Health and Development Communication conference will be the first event held

by Communication Africa, a group of partners drawn together by their concern for

the dissemination of information crucial for health and development in Africa.

Through bringing together media workers and owners, scholars, health and

development workers, as well as policy makers in Africa, Communication Africa

hopes to establish a forum that continues beyond this conference to reflect on

and discuss the importance of communication in meeting Africa's health and

development goals. However, we do not limit our discourse to Africa. We believe

that policies, practices and scholarship from across the globe, and from where

health and development work is ongoing, can only enrich the human experience.

In addition to the conference meetings and deliberations, we will hold a two-day

pre-conference training for journalists and student journalists to examine how

health and development issues are treated in the media. We are privileged to

have a team of experienced and qualified colleagues, drawn from both the US and

Kenya, to offer this important training. This workshop will be followed by three

days of intense examination of topics related to health and development

communication through daily plenary sessions, break out groups, and workshops.

We will also hold events specifically for bringing together communication

industry players and policy players to critique their role in society, the

effect of their policies on lives and the social impact of the information

dissemination. We will soon post the program of the conference on this site.

We are delighted that you stopped by this page and trust that you will be

interested in the conference and become part of a global discussion on the

issues that inform health and development work.

http://communicationafrica.org/index.php?option=com_k2 & view=item & id=42:health-de\

velopment-communication-conference