165410 Centers of excellence in health communication roundable on Healthy People 2010: Looking forward

Monday, November 5, 2007: 2:30 PM

Linda Harris, PhD, Lead , Health Communication and eHealth Team, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD
The Healthy People 2010 objectives on Health Communication include Objective 11-5:“increase the number of centers for excellence that seek to advance the research and practice of health communication”. This objective has been met. As the end of the decade approaches, it is future role of health communication and informatics research.

Objective/Purpose:

These eight centers' representatives will, in a roundtable format, discuss their current research, identify some of the advances and challenges that have occurred since Communicating Health was published in 2003 and consider the future role of health communication and informatics research. Invited Panel Members –Principal Investigators of the 8 Centers

Dr. Victor Strecher, PI, Center for Health Communication Research, University of Michigan

Dr. Robert Hornik, PI, Effects of Public Information in Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Matthew Kreuter, PI, Center for Cultural Cancer Communication, St. Louis University

Dr. David Gustafson, PI, Technology Enhancing Cancer Communication Center, University of Wisconsin

Dr. Leslie Snyder, PI. The Center of Excellence in Health Marketing and Health Communication U of Connecticut (Farmington)

Dr. Vicki Freimuth, PI. Southern Center for Communication, Health and Poverty, U. of Georgia (Athens)

Dr. Richard Platt, PI, The Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, Harvard Medical School (Boston)

Dr. Mark Oberle, PI., Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, U. of Washington (Seattle)

Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to identify the Centers of Excellence in Health Communication By the send of the session participants will be able to list the major health communication and informatics research projects in progress at each of the Centers By the end of the session, participants will be able to identify the future potential for health communication research

Keywords: Communication, Information Technology

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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