Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health

Instructor: Brian Zikmund-Fisher

What you'll learn

  •   Define and collect important information about a target audience in order to make appropriate decisions about the communication effort
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  •   Select an audience-appropriate communications goal
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  •   Craft a clear, concise core message for a communication effort
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  •   Deploy at least two different types of narrative structures to support communications about health topics
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  • Skills you'll gain

  •   Verbal Communication Skills
  •   Communication
  •   Interpersonal Communications
  •   Persuasive Communication
  •   Health Policy
  •   Communication Strategies
  •   Concision
  •   Diversity Awareness
  •   Public Speaking
  •   Patient Education And Counseling
  • There are 5 modules in this course

    Learners will develop the skills to: analyze and tailor a communication effort for different audiences, develop clear messages, create logical and compelling stories, understand and apply important considerations with language as well as nonverbal communication. This course is valuable and appropriate for both beginning and experienced health professionals who need to communicate effectively with other professionals, patients, policymakers, or the broader public.. Content is relevant to public health professionals, clinicians of all types (medical, nursing, dentists, social work, etc.), health advocates, and scientists and researchers in any health domain..

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