Health Communication Hub

Summary

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.

onHealth Hubs

This Health Communication Hub is part of the onHealth Knowledge Network, overseen by the Open Network Alliance. Gary Kreps, is Chair of the Advisory Board for the onHealth and is the Lead Curator for the Health Comm Hub. Meredith Cary is the lead administrator for our Health Hubs and Manager for this Hub.

All onHealth Hubs will be crowdsourced and curated by health professionals and students and open to the public. The goal for each Hub is to become the most comprehensive and trusted source of knowledge on health-related topics. Content published within the Knowledge Network of Health Hubs can be easily shared and automatically updated. In addition to member profiles. Hubs will include profiles of organizations, diverse educational and media resources, digests of the latest news and events, and ...

Can we ‘Speak Up’ – Together?

What if ANY educator could – leverage their own media outlet – to enable learners to compete to have the most impact on health consumer awareness & demand? Imagine if educators empowered the healthcare community – to fight mis- and disinformation & promote health together.

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

A NEW VISION
Enable ANY educator to LEAD – on ANY health issue. It may be easier than you think to create an online Speak Up Internship to curate its own new media outlet from which to pilot a Speak Up for Sleep Challenge.

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

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