ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES

4:10 p.m., THUR NOVEMBER 22, 2007 
Rm. 106, Health Sciences Building, 155 College St.

CHARLES-ANTOINE ROUYER
Freelance journalist, Health & Environment, Hygeia Healthy Communication
saine Inc.; Course Director: Communication, Health and the Environment,
Glendon College, York University

Communication, Health & Environment: Media literacy and the news media
contribution (or not) to healthy public policy

ABSTRACT: Can journalists still be considered as the doctors of democracy?
Are the news media continuing to provide a public arena where citizens can
be informed about the affairs of the state or news organizations have simply
become another channel to sell advertising? In this perspective, can news
media contribute to shaping healthy public policy? In order to attempt to
answer these questions, this seminar will first address a multi-disciplinary
model illustrating how communication, health and environment are related and
how this interaction can contribute (or not) to influence public policy.
The presentation will then briefly review what health promotion and healthy
public policies imply, within the context of the World Health Organization
(WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986).  This seminar will
conclude by exploring three avenues to better engage news media coverage of
health & environment issues, from a demand-side through media literacy
(providing the tools to the general public to become better consumers of
news media production); and from a supply-side through media advocacy and
media relations, to better get through to the gate keepers in news
organizations.

BRIEF BIO: Charles-Antoine Rouyer is a freelance writer and broadcaster
specialized in Health & Environment and Economy (including Urban Health,
Sustainable Cities, Urban Ecology and Ecotourism). Charles-Antoine has been
contributing to several local and national media outlets (print, radio, TV,
Internet), including Radio-Canada radio, CBC radio and television, TfO,
Ontario’s French TV channel, Le Devoir daily in Montreal, Corporate Knights
magazine, Canadian Architect magazine, Elle Québec, as well as
internationally to France dailies Libération and Ouest France.
Charles-Antoine is also course director at York University, teaching a
Communication, Health & Environment course, in the Health & Environment
Studies program, Glendon College, York University.

THIS IS THE LAST SEMINAR IN THIS SERIES THIS FALL TERM. 
THIS SEMINAR IS CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTRE FOR URBAN HEALTH INITIATIVES


Alexis Kane Speer
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI) 

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