This post is part of a blog series focusing on successful health marketing campaigns using multiple communications disciplines and media channels. If you have a campaign we should highlight, let us know.
Like many of you, I applaud the use of social media in health promotion. I very rarely find a user-generated campaign to criticize.
However, I recently saw [...]
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Earlier today we had a fascinating conversation with representatives from Siren Interactive, the National Organization for Rare Disorders and Inspire focusing on rare diseases and raising awareness/sparking action around this issue. This session was part of our ongoing Casual Conversation Webinar series.
The Webinar slides and audio are below. (Click the “play” button to listen to [...]
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They say “failing to plan is planning to fail.” But what happens when you plan well and your intervention still fails?
The textbook Marketing Public Health discusses four types of common failures of communications interventions.
Strategy failures occur when external barriers exist in the community that cannot be overcome by communication messages. For example, a condom usage [...]
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Are you excited about First Lady Michelle Obama’s new anti-childhood obesity initiative, Let’s Move? You should be. But, before you get too enthusiastic, consider recent history.
Early in the last decade a new public health initiative was launched to great fanfare and public acclaim. The cause: reducing childhood obesity. Funding was appropriated, policymakers were corralled and [...]
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As members of the extended Path of the Blue Eye Project community are well-aware, one of the major objectives of the Project is to smash silos in the health marketing communications industry. As I like to say, diversity = strength.
My friend Shwen Gwee of Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Med 2.0 blog also believes in the [...]
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