Fighting Fear and Stigma with Accurate Information
In July 2015, three months after the last person who had succumbed to the dreadful Ebola virus was buried, Liberians woke to the news that a 17-year old young man […]
Callie Long is a media development practitioner, journalist and organizational communicator. She has over 20 years’ experience as a print, radio, and television reporter and documentary producer. Callie previously headed up Internews in Zimbabwe as Chief of Party and Resident Journalism Advisor from 2010-2011, and continues to work for the organization as a media development consultant. In 2012 she wrote A Story a Day: The media as a preventive tool in public health – a legacy assessment of Internews’ health journalism program in Kenya, and its impact on the country’s media, the public health sector, and media consumers. Much of her writing has focused on HIV and AIDS, conflict, and humanitarian disasters, often in crisis settings. Her research focuses mainly on media development interventions and the impact of trauma and violence on journalists.
In July 2015, three months after the last person who had succumbed to the dreadful Ebola virus was buried, Liberians woke to the news that a 17-year old young man […]
Health journalists have long known the importance of mobilizing around days that mark specific public health events, such as World Malaria Day, which happens on April 25 this year. In […]
I’ve been reading a book on HIV prevention in which the French anthropologist, sociologist and physician, Didier Fassin [1] is quoted as saying that epidemics are moments of truth for […]
Earlier this month Christopher Graves, CEO for Ogilvy Public Relations*, wrote that “managing Ebola will take powerful communication.” It’s a sensible and thoughtful blog about a horrible disease that is […]
If you’re a health journalist, some of your most important contacts are often the scientists working in any number of fields associated with health. They’re the ones who provide the […]
If you work in health communication, my guess is that you know the basics of writing: don’t use jargon, less is more, don’t use insiders’ language, check the spelling of […]
An assessment and media content analysis in 2012 by AVAC and USAID of seven1 East and Southern African countries cited Internews’ work with the media in Kenya as an example […]