Health Communication in the 21st Century

Harvard HSPH

This course is designed to provide students in public health and social science with an overview of the theory and research on the role of communication in health in the 21st century. The role of communication in public health will be examined both as a product of everyday interaction with communication platforms including mass and social media and messages, and its planned use to accomplish particular public health goals. Research examined here looks both at planned and unplanned effects of…