11,852 The Communication Initiative, Your Health and Rights Communication Priorities

From: Warren Feek – Executive Director – The Communication InitiativeGreetings Octavio

Your Health and Rights Communication Priorities, Post 2015?

Health, Rights, Media Network

«The post-2015 framework should include access to justice and legal empowerment targets in a governance goal to address issues most critical to human development.»

These words are from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which supports The CI’s Health, Rights, Media theme site and the Health, Rights, Media Network. These processes gather knowledge, insight, experience, and resources from people addressing health issues from a rights perspective using media-based strategies. And they provide opportunities for critical review, debate, dialogue and peer support.

This note introduces some of the knowledge on that theme site that might help support your thinking and work on the way the post-2015 framework could focus more intently not only on rights and justice but also on how themes like advocacy, social inclusion, and respect for marginalised voices intersect with the health priorities already outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

To that end, as an input in support of your work, we wanted to highlight this summary and inspire you to think on it:

Health Priorities Post 2015: What is the Priority Health Agenda for the 15 Years after 2015?

Legislative advocacy is one strategy outlined there. The Health, Rights, Media theme site includes many items on health advocacy, such as these two:

Medical Advocacy Mural Project

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for Tuberculosis Control: Collection of Country-Level Good Practices

Or, perhaps you think that networking is also important to foster social inclusion as we move beyond 2015. Please read and comment on this summary: Engaging Social Networks in Family Planning Programming: Lessons from Research Interventions: A Report for: Terikunda Jekulu: Using Network Analysis to Address Unmet Need in Mali

Do you wonder about concepts of empowerment and justice as they relate to health, post-2015? Please read and comment on this blog: Is empowerment too complicated to be a useful concept in practice?

If your focus is on marginalised populations, consider visiting numerous contributions to the theme site, including: Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: Health, Access, and HIV

We would like to continue building this resource area for practitioners or students interested in communication for health, rights, and the media. To that end, if you have thoughts, initiatives, or resources to share in these or other areas related to health, rights, and the media, please contact Kier Olsen DeVries and/or visit the URLs above to review, rate and comment. You can also join the Health, Rights, Media Network and engage in dialogue around these and other issues.

Thank you for engaging and for sharing your work with us in 2014, 2015, and beyond!

Best wishes,

Warren

Warren Feek
Executive Director
The Communication Initiative
The Communication Initiative
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