Objectives

By the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Describe basic principles for effective communication
• Define informatics effectively to technical and non-technical audiences
• Describe how informatics can assist in addressing public health problems
• Utilize talking points or an elevator speech to communicate value of informatics
• Apply communications principles for engaging stakeholders involved in informatics projects

Participant Prerequisite

Frameworks Institute (2017). Reframing Public Health Informatics: A FrameWorks Communications Toolkit. Washington, DC.

• Please watch the following informatics metaphor videos: http://phii.org/resources/view/9532/informatics-metaphor-animation-videos
• Also watch this explanation of PHII’s Informatics Toolkit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUgWLVLFUTE