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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.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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This is a video (1:35:40 in length) from an event hosted by The Paley Center for Media on December 9 2013 in New York, United States (US) that gathered experts to explore the role of media in providing the public with accurate and useful information. The panel examined how television, print, and the internet have engaged the public in health issues that literally have life or death consequences. Panel members included:

  • Dr. Leonard Saltz, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Dr. Jonathan LaPook, Chief Medical Correspondent, CBS Evening News
  • Elisabeth Rosenthal, Correspondent, New York Times
  • Robert Bazell, Adjunct Professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale; former Chief Science and Health Correspondent, NBC News
  • Rohit Malpani, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Moderator: Trudy Lieberman, Contributing Editor, Columbia Journalism Review

With the recent introduction of two breakthrough Hepatitis-C drugs, the panel also considered issues surrounding reporting on pharmaceutical research and development and the high costs of life-saving medicine, as well as the need to make pharmaceutical research and expenditures transparent. While discussing the health of medical journalism, the panel also discussed how the public can be better informed in order to ask the essential medical questions to their healthcare providers and policymakers.



Source

Email from Brett Davidson to The Communication Initiative on February 3 2014; and Paley Center website, February 4 2014.