Strategic Communication for Behaviour Change Globally:

The Power of the Media 

 

Online Discussion Forum: 

26 March - 04 May 2007


Register for free at: http://my.ibpinitiative.org/public/youthandmedia/

 

The objective of this online discussion forum is to share effective
strategies in the area of popular culture and youth-led media for sexual
and reproductive health promotion, drawing on Y-PEER's
<http://www.youthpeer.net/site/index.php>  expanded, innovative
partnerships.  The six weeks of discussion shall cover channeling the
power of the media to effectively implement strategic behaviour change
communication, touching on young people in the spotlight through
youth-led and interactive media, theatre and concerts, individual
face-to-face testimonials and screen-to-screen dialogue, and radio-based
interventions. 

 

Moderated by Dr. Srdjan Stakic, Coordinator of Epidemiology and Public
Health at the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness
<http://publichealth.yale.edu/ycphp/> , the forum will consist of six
weekly discussion topics, each co-facilitated by an expert in the
specific issue of the week's discussion.   Facilitators shall include
Georgia Arnold, Vice President of Public Affairs at MTV Networks
International <http://www.mtv.com/mtvinternational/>  and Co-Founder of
Staying Alive <http://www.staying-alive.org/> ; Bill Ryerson, Founder
and President of the Population Media Center
<http://www.populationmedia.org/> ; Colin Dixon, Head of Global
Partnerships and Development at Dance4Life <http://www.dance4life.com/>
; Dr. Cydelle Berlin, Executive Director of The NiteStar Program
<http://www.nitestar.org/> ; Amil Husain,  United Nations Millennium
Campaign
<http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=138312> ;
Todd Murray, Executive Director and Founder of Hope's Voice
<http://www.hopesvoice.org/>  and Executive Producer of the documentary
Road to Hope.

 

This online discussion is sponsored by UNFPA's Division for Arab States,
Europe and Central Asia together with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health INFO Project.

 

Megan O'Brien

For the IBP Initiative

The INFO Project

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