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The Communication Initiative

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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Health Communications Internship Program (HCIP)

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI), one of the member Institutes of the National Institutes of Health, is recruiting candidates for a paid internship programme that offers mentoring to undergraduate and graduate students in health communications research, monitoring and evaluation, campaign design and development, advocacy, media relations, planning and implementation of programmes, health disparity reduction, and science writing (translating scientific material for a lay audience). Interns will be assigned to a host office for the duration of their internship. All placements are located in Maryland (suburban Washington, DC, United States [US]).

Application Info

The internship is available to US citizens or US permanent residents that are enrolled in a graduate programme or a recent graduate degree recipient. If the applicant possesses a graduate degree, it must have been awarded no later than one year prior to the application deadline. Decisions on applications will be made four to six weeks after the respective deadline.

Applications for the Spring term are due by midnight on the first Tuesday in September; applications for the Fall term are due by midnight on the first Tuesday in March.

Click here for online application information.

Application addresses:

For all US postal mail, including Express Mail and Priority Mail:
NCI Office of Workforce Development
Attn: HCIP Staff
6116 Executive Blvd.
Ste. 502, MSC 8342
Bethesda, MD20892-8342
United States

For all other package delivery services (e.g., FedEx, etc.):
NCI Office of Workforce Development
Attn: HCIP Staff
6116 Executive Blvd., Ste. 502
Rockville, MD 20852
United States
Tel: 301 435 8524
Fax: 301 402 3509
HCIP-Contact@mail.nih.gov

Source

Email from Teresa Estrada to The Communication Initiative on July 16 and 21 2010, and National Cancer Institute Health Communication Internship Program website, November 30 2010.