Storytelling and Human Health: An Introduction to Global Health Communication and Media…

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Health and illness are integral parts of the human condition - and storytelling is one of the oldest and most powerful approaches to documenting and sharing people's experiences of health and disease. This course examines various approaches to the use of health storytelling to boost empathy, reduce stigma, convey science-based health messages and even examine our own experiences with health and disease. We will explore existing evidence-based frameworks that can be integrated into the story development process, including human-centered design, the use of narratives in health communication, entertainment-education and how we can apply principles of universal design for learning in our efforts to engage diverse audiences through compelling and scalable health storytelling.