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CDC's National Conference on Health Communications, Marketing and Media

Highlights from CDC’s Convergence 2010

A short condensed highlights video covering the three day conference, held in Atlanta, with the theme Convergence: Purpose, Programs & Partners. This conference, now in its fourth year, has become an important event to inspire innovations in health communications, marketing and media. For more...

An Interview with Victor J. Strecher PhD, MPH, at the CDC

How Physicians can Utilize New Technologies to Empower their Patients

Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH, discusses new technologies and behavior change, as well as how physicians can utilize these new technologies to empower their patients. He also discusses tailoring messages to individuals to increase compliance and success rates. Dr. Strecher is a professor of Health Behavior...
Mark Trahant discusses the transition from traditional mainstream media to social media and its impact on public health messaging, both to the patient and the physician. Mr. Trahant is a writer, teacher and a “Twitter poet.” He is a 2009-2010 Kaiser Media Fellow and will be writing about health care...