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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Building Trust, Managing Risk around Vaccines: From Trials to Delivery - July 20-23 2020 - Online Course

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**This course will be held online**

Although most people vaccinate, some groups or individuals delay or refuse vaccines. Episodes of public concerns about vaccines are occurring around the world, with misinformation and rumours spreading quickly and sometimes seriously eroding public confidence in immunisation and ultimately leading to vaccine refusals and disease outbreaks.

This 3.5-day course, developed by the Vaccine Confidence ProjectTM at LSHTM, will highlight the importance of maintaining and improving vaccine confidence and explore the diversity of concerns and perceptions about vaccines and how they have impacted vaccine uptake across multiple global settings.

Through case studies, we will examine interventions to address different concerns and build public trust, considering risk perceptions, rumour psychology and the role and impact of digital and social media. The course will introduce participants to measures and tools that can be used to assess confidence (from quantitative and qualitative research to media monitoring) to inform strategies that can be implemented to address low or decreasing confidence in vaccination in multiple settings globally.

Who is this course for?

The course has been designed for public health professionals, policymakers and researchers from academia, governments, NGOs, and industry. The course will have a global focus, with examples from a range of settings.

It will be assumed that participants will have some prior experience/basic understanding of vaccination and/or vaccination programmes. Participants should have a good command of English.

Course fee

The course fee for 2020 is £900. The course will be held online in 2020.

 

Registration Information

Register and find out more here.

Fee deadline

The final deadline for the payment of the course fees is 1 June 2020.

Location

Online Course