The Health Communication Hub will crowdsource and curate the best knowledge about health communication research, education, and practice to enable global learning, collaboration, and innovation.

To build global visibility in the Health Communication field, students will manage Hubs that have aircasts (livestreamed zoom discussions) as well as important news and information.

Summary

Imagine: Educators own a media outlet – to fix training gaps & unite to fight the hype. What if we owned the infrastructure to enable ANY learner, class, school, or profession to compete to have the most positive impact on health consumer awareness & demand?

Former pilots showed how ‘collective’ civic-engaged scholarship COULD enable us to promote health: (1) Online interns led their own media outlet that informed & activated the public, (2) Course-led projects piloted a health fitness communication campaign.

Calling future academic partners It may be easier than you think to create the first online Speak Up Internship to curate its own new media outlet from which to pilot the first Speak Up for Sleep Challenge. Let’s enable ANY educator to LEAD & have the most impact:

Leverage an internship-led social media challenge to Engage learners to interprofessionally compete to Activate sleep consumer awareness about what works & Disseminate EXACTLY where to find it.

The Training Gap & Harms

Roughly 75% of healthcare is self-care. However, in 2020, Stanford’s Halsted Holman MD decried the massive failures and training gaps of our time.

The Failure: Health providers need to INFORM health consumers about what works & ACTIVATE them to find it. “The profession has not done so.“

The Training Gap: Leading health profession educators agreed to provide interprofessional hands-on training to use social ...

OnAir Post: Can we ‘Speak Up’ – Together?3

Summary

Calling on Educators …

Enable your learners to curate this new media outlet to LEAD and fight the hype and mis- or disinformation … to compete to be the … class, school, or profession … to have the most impact …

Leverage an intern-led social media challenge to
Engage any service-learner to compete to inform &
Activate sleep consumers to know what REALLY works &
Disseminate EXACTLY where to find it.

For more, see Can We Speak Up … Together?

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