Health Communication: 4 Things Rebecca Black Can Teach Us About Making Public Health Outreach Safer

Health communication comes with risks. Learn how to manage and understand them in this video from @samuelanimates Party's Over series. The BCPH Thought Leadership fellow examines the story of Rebecca Black to help us understand online safety and risk for public health communication. In an era when public health is more polarized than ever and cyberbullying is the norm, addressing safety in public health outreach and education is a vital part of health literacy. For more info and resources, read Samuel's accompanying blog post at: https://bcph.org/health-communication...

Samuel Mendez is a PhD candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, studying health communication. Their dissertation focuses on expanding health literacy research by drawing on natural language processing and machine learning techniques, as well as media studies theory. Their overall goal is to help make public health communication more effective and more equitable in the pandemic era.