Health Communication in Neglected Tropical Disease Contexts

Catalog description

Effective communication is a core competence for responses to neglected tropical disease (NTD) threats. This course seeks to build capacity to allow systematic and coherent communication, response and management to NTDs. This course introduces a conceptual approach to tropical disease communication that emphasizes community listening and engagement, relationship building, creating supportive environments, and coordinating with other social and knowledge communities to reduce risk of exposure to tropical diseases and to create sustainable social change that ameliorates the impacts of NTDs on individuals and communities. Students may benefit from having already completed HLTH 2000 - Introduction to Public Health or COMS 3400 - Introduction to Health Communication.