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"There is an urgent need for health care professionals worldwide to access, share, and apply evidence-based and experiential knowledge to enhance health systems, achieve health and development objectives, and, ultimately, improve peoples health and lives."

"The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the need for public health communication efforts to be more proactive. This is especially relevant given the need to address misinformation to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake..."

"Study findings can inform the design of evidence-based community engagement approaches that appropriately target caregivers in these regions and other similar settings." Psychosocial factors, including social, cultural, and environmental phenomena, play a central role in health and behaviour change.

"MSC stories add context to the progress and trends shown by the quantitative data and give good inspiration for local governments and other stakeholders to try the approach [described in the MSC stories] and strengthen their program." - India hub team member..."

"The promotion of gender equity in couple communication and decision making is critical if womens voices are to be heard in the context of family planning." Ethiopias unmet need for family planning is 22%, indicating that services have yet to reach couples in need of contraceptive products.

"[F]or health communication campaigns that already engage populations who have a digital presence, social listening and social media monitoring can be powerful monitoring and evaluation tools."

"[T]he goal of social accountability is to develop collaborative relationships to improve quality of service provision and ultimately stimulating engagement of citizens and responsiveness of public and private authorities and institutions." - Télesphore Kaboré Family planning (FP) is susceptible to inequities that hinder access to information, serv

"[T]he current supply-driven approach fails to sufficiently address the many social and behavioral barriers faced by women and couples in achieving their reproductive intentions and desired family size.

FRESNO STATE -- Fresno State professor of communication and performance Dr. Devendra Sharma was named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2022-23 academic year...

Author: Zaeem Haq, May 31 2022 - It was amazing to see a recent tweet by a Pakistani journalist in which he used a punchline of the movie Bol to comment on the current political situation in the country.