European Conference on Health Journalism
The Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental & Occupational Health, Prolepsis, on behalf of the Health Reporting Training (HeaRT) project, is organizing a European Conference on Health Journalism in Athens. The Conference will take place at the Acropolis Museum on Monday, October 15 2012.
HeaRT project was set up to address the shortage of specialist training courses on health journalism across Europe. In this context, this conference aims to address some of the key issues in health journalism and health journalism training. It also builds on the first-ever European conference of health journalists, held in Coventry University, England, in June 2011, attended by 60 journalists and academics from 14 European countries.
We will briefly present our research, our findings, and outline the training modules that have been developed by the project team to address the issues identified by journalists as those they wished to discuss. We will also report on the progress of the training packages delivered in each partner country.
Interested participants are invited to contribute to this conference by giving a brief presentation on any of the following themes:
– Health journalism training – gaps, needs and opportunities
– News coverage of health issues
– Medical research and science in the news
– Reporting on issues such as business and economics of health care, health policy, health care quality and performance
– Global health coverage
– Public health in the media – consumer and lifestyle health
– Multimedia reporting – the role of new media in health reporting
– Conflict of interest
A summary of the topic you would like to address (up to 200 words) should be sent to Afroditi Veloudaki a.veloudaki@prolepsis.gr.
The HeaRT project, initiated by the Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Prolepsis, brings together a combination of knowledge and expertise from Germany, Romania, Great Britain, Finland and Estonia. Public health organizations and universities worked together with journalism and media universities and organizations over two years to research the current levels of training and future training needs, to develop and deliver short courses to help fill in the gaps in specialist knowledge in each country in its own language. More information on the HeaRT project can be found at the website www.project-heart.eu.
