DRAFT

May 12, 2008

Our mission is to help improve the quality and effectiveness of communications in support of evidence-based health policy development.

Goals

To provide opportunities for:

• Discussing health policy communication issues
• Networking
• Learning…
• Effective strategies for working with journalists
• How to create or improve health policy communications
• How to effectively translate research into newsworthy or policy worthy content

Group Participants

• Public and government relations professionals
• News professionals
• Health policy and communications researchers, including public opinion, news, public and government relations
• Policymakers/public officials