Full course description
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Define Health Communication.
Familiarize yourself with the structure and inner workings of the Center for Health Communication.
Apply best practices and strategies to current health communication problems.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Congratulations on taking the first step towards being the best health communication problem solver you can be. This course is designed to benefit people that play various roles in health communication. You may be the leader of a health communication team at a big organization, or a mighty one-person team at a local health department, or lie somewhere in between. This course will help you think through common health communication challenges and come up with unique solutions backed up by research and practice. You will get an introduction to the Center for Health Communication’s (CHC) mission and guiding principles and get an insight into the research, development, and evaluation process that the CHC applies to address health communication challenges. Finally, as the CHC believes in learning by doing, you will get an opportunity to synthesize the information you gain in this course and practice the skills on a given health communication challenge.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Interested in using this course as an educational resource?
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CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Thinking Like a Health Communication Problem Solver
Presented by:
Michael Mackert, Ph.D
Provost's Teaching Fellow
Director Center for Health Communication
John P. McGovern Regents Professor in Health and Medical Science Communication
Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations
Professor, Department of Population Health
Moody College of Communication | Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin
Jessica Hughes Wagner, Ph.D
The University of Texas at Austin
Continuing Public Health (CPH)
Up to 1 CPH Recertification Credits may be earned at this event.
Time to complete this module: 60 minutes
Original release date: 05/27/2025
End date: 05/27/2027
*CPH is not available after the end date