Seminar on on urgent health communication issues facing Ireland hosted by Celsius and the RRING project

The one-day seminar hosted by Celsius and the RRING project on urgent health communication issues facing Ireland.

Event: Engaged Medicine – case studies of challenges to effective health communication

Where and when: 30th May, 2019,

0930 to 1500

Rooms S206-S209, The Stokes Building, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin City University

Please register here, https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/engaged-medicine-case-studies-of-challenges-to-effective-health-communication-tickets-62128867114

The threat to the health of the global population is ever-present, and there are multiple complex challenges. Diseases like measles and diphtheria are preventable through vaccines but are still global threats; flu and other pandemics seem inevitable; there is the growing health threat of climate change; and the biggest threat of all remains non-communicable diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

In Ireland, while the health system is criticised, there are local, politicised issues that add to the complexity of communication, like safe and informative abortion provision, cervical cancer screening and HPV prevention. But these also have global dimensions.

Can the health sector engage better with the public and can this improve the health system itself? In this, the twelfth in a series of annual Celsius research group Science//Society seminars at DCU we look at Irish case studies of health communication from a global perspective.

The event was sponsored by the RRING Horizon 2020 project.