 Thank You to Our Summit Sponsors!At the Society for Health Communication, we believe we can achieve more through collaboration than competition. The following organizations are supporting the Summit and, more importantly, working hard every day to support and advance the field of health communication. Please take a moment to check out their great work.
 For over 175 years, Deloitte has made an impact that matters. We have worked with leaders around the world—from the Global 500® to private businesses—to help them build better futures. To support their people. To succeed. All while caring for our communities. With a workforce made up of the industry’s greatest minds, we continue to shape the future by delivering real, measurable results. We go beyond talk—we act. Health and Human Services solutions for the greater goodDeloitte is in the business of successful public health outcomes. By connecting health services and social care organizations with actionable insights and solutions, we can help you make the strategic decisions that support your communities, including programs that assist with social welfare, unemployment, and family care, as well as physical and mental health. The health and well-being of every individual is important to us. Through our depth and breadth of health care industry and public sector experience, collaboration with strategic alliances, and research-based business and clinical insights, we can help health services address some of today’s toughest problems and strengthen community and national health outcomes. Together, we can shape the future of human services, transform social care, and promote health equity.
Journal of Health Communication The Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives is the leading journal covering the full breadth of a field that focuses on the communication of health information globally. Global in scope, the journal seeks to advance a synergistic relationship between research and practical information. With a focus on promoting the health literacy of the individual, caregiver, provider, community, and those in the health policy, the journal presents research, progress in areas of technology and public health, ethics, politics and policy, and the application of health communication principles. The journal is selective with the highest quality social scientific research including qualitative and quantitative studies. CHAMPION SPONSORS The de Beaumont Foundation advances policy, builds partnerships, and strengthens public health to create communities where people can achieve their best possible health. Policy: We advance policies that improve community health, so that current and future generations can benefit from changes enacted by today’s leaders. Partnerships: We build partnerships, often among unlikely allies, so that leaders can make decisions that achieve their shared goal of creating healthier communities. People: We create practical solutions that strengthen the public health system and workforce, so that professionals are equipped to make their communities healthier.
Public Health Communications Collaborative The Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC)is a learning and information hub for professionals who communicate about public health. PHCC was formed in August 2020 by the CDC Foundation, the de Beaumont Foundation, and Trust for America’s Health to provide unbiased communication about the COVID-19 pandemic. With misinformation and polarization eroding trust in public health, PHCC’s founders came together to create, coordinate, and amplify science-based messaging to support and enhance the communications capacity of health departments across the country. Since that time, PHCC has grown to include new partners and broadened our mission beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
ADVOCATE SPONSORS CommunicateHealth was founded on one core principle: We think people deserve clear and simple information about their health. We help our clients create products and services that can be easily accessed, understood, and used by the people who need them most. Whether it’s an app or an infographic -- we will, design, test, and tweak until we get it right. The CommunicateHealth family includes a talented pool of plain language writers, designers, usability specialists, researchers, and health educators.
Emerson College, a nonprofit educational institution, draws independent minds from diverse backgrounds around the world through its highly regarded academic programs in communication, the arts, and the liberal arts. Energized by engagement with the creative life of Boston, Los Angeles, and the Netherlands, our students are thinkers and doers who develop daring ideas and bring innovation, depth, and diversity to their disciplines. Emerson alumni populate theaters, newsrooms, movie sets, comedy clubs, start-ups, and schools worldwide. They’ve emerged as leaders in a variety of communication and arts fields, pursuing daring ideas that shape our culture in the 21st century. They find innovative ways to report local news, act on stage and screen, run political campaigns, edit consumer magazines, found businesses, help people with communication disorders, and direct short films. Wherever people collaborate to inspire progress in their communities and make a positive impact on society, you will find Emersonians.
ICF Next is an integrated agency that combines the creativity of an agency with the industry expertise of a consultancy. Our global team of mission-driven strategists, marketers, technologists, communicators and data scientists help our clients build Next-level engagement. We are your strategic partner for engagement and transformation. Our passion is to help you make the change you need to succeed. We are mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists and technologists. Part of global consultancy ICF, we're working to improve the world in areas from energy to health to transportation and beyond. From strategy to execution, we create the kind of change that brings you closer to the people you serve: citizens, colleagues, and entire communities.
 inizio evoke comms is an award-winning communications agency that harnesses insight, experience and creativity to advance health and wellbeing around the world. We work with leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies, non-profits and foundations, offering full-service communications with core capabilities in brand and data communications, corporate reputation and social impact, disease awareness programming, global public health, patient advocacy relations and partnerships and stakeholder engagement. We bring together stakeholders to address some of the world’s biggest health challenges – from COVID-19 to cancer to flu.
 At Fors Marsh, we take on issues that matter. A team of researchers, advisors, and communicators working together to shape the systems that shape our lives. Fueled by empathy and grounded in evidence, we bring together the science of research and the art of communication. We look at human behavior from all angles to design targeted solutions that influence decision-making and move people to action.
Made up of mission-driven, proficient public health leaders, the Karna team delivers impactful solutions that empower their customers to address and solve public health challenges. Our team of health communication professionals are experts in translating scientific information into clear and consistent materials and messages that inform and motivate audiences to take action. We use mixed methods research to understand our audiences’ knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, motivators, and barriers. This data helps us design materials that will resonate with the intended audiences. We have expertise in all aspects of health communication, including strategy and planning, campaign development, implementation, evaluation, patient-provider communication, plain language and clear communication, crisis and risk communication, and adaptation of materials.
JBS International and Karna both operate under the Celerian Group. Established in 1985 by two women, JBS International, Inc. has worked with clients to successfully design solutions that focus on opportunities and address challenges—always with an emphasis on understanding the specific health, social, and educational needs of people across the lifespan and from all walks of life. Our work includes health IT, research and evaluation, international public health, policy analysis, and communications services. Over the years of supporting public, private-sector, and tribal clients, we’ve learned what we do well, and we’ve become exceptional at it. The work we do at JBS falls into four broad service areas with a shared end goal: helping individuals and communities identify and achieve real, measurable improvements.
NORC at the University of Chicago conducts research and analysis that decision-makers trust. As a nonpartisan research organization and a pioneer in measuring and understanding the world, we have studied almost every aspect of the human experience and every major news event for more than eighty years. We partner with government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world to provide the objectivity and expertise necessary to inform the critical decisions facing society. NORC’s Health Communication Practice delivers comprehensive, integrated health communication and behavior change services that span the research, program development, and evaluation cycle. Our mission is to use innovative, multidisciplinary, and inclusive theory and methods to deliver reliable data and rigorous analyses to help our clients develop, implement and evaluate their health communication and social marketing initiatives that impact lives for the better. In addition, NORC is committed to Diversity Racial Equity and Inclusion (DREI), and leads the Center on Equity Research, a cross-cutting multi-disciplinary Center focused on expanding culturally responsive research and partnerships throughout the industry, providing strategic direction for DREI research activities across NORC, and leading social science research.
 Westat is a leader in research, data collection and analysis, technical assistance, evaluation, and communications. Our evidence-based findings help clients in government and the private sector accelerate advancements in health, education, and social and economic policy. Our approach is rooted in rigorous statistical and data science methods with an unflagging dedication to improving lives through research—we approach each project with investigative curiosity, data rigor, adaptive methods, and advanced technology. These attributes, unchanged since our establishment in 1963, combined with our innovative thinking, transparency, and adaptability, are why clients find exceptional value in our work. Westat began as a visionary startup in 1963. Now, 50+ years later with 1,900 employees, we continue to pioneer new ways to support the changing needs of clients. Our unique collaborative culture enables us to create dynamic multifaceted teams with broad experience across a wide range of topics.
PATRON SPONSORS
For 35 years, BETAH has been at the heart of communications and communities. Our core mission has been to improve the quality of life, health, safety, and education of vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations through innovative communications and management services. Throughout our years in business, we’ve established a reputation for providing high-quality service to federal, state, and local agencies; nonprofit organizations; and the private sector. At BETAH, we approach our work with passion, creativity, and resolve. Client confidence and satisfaction are the measures of our success. BETAH is comprised of experts from a variety of fields—including communications, marketing, management, event planning, and technology. As a team of diversely talented professionals, we make a difference every day—for our clients, for the citizens they serve, and for the communities in which we live.
ComputercraftComputercraft, an American Indian- and Woman-owned small business, provides technical, scientific, and management support service to advance biomedical research and human health. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Computercraaft has more than 30 years of experience providing IT solutions and services to the federal government and provide sector with a focus on health and biomedical research. We work to build and refine high-profile information resources that get accurate health and biomedical research data into the hands of researchers and other stakeholders all over the globe, helping them solve our world's greatest health challenges. Through our other services, such as program management office support, we facilitate and sustain our nation's public health efforts.
Our mission is simple. Marketing Doctor help brands and partners achieve their business goals with our extra mile mindset, full-funnel mastery, and integrated full-service media planning, buying, and measurement services. As your strategic agency partner, we cover all things paid media from start to finish so you can focus on your business. Our team of media researchers, planners, strategists, analysts, and buyers plan and execute campaigns across traditional, digital, social, “tradigital,” and emerging platforms.
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across the social and laboratory sciences, engineering, and international development. Combining scientific rigor and technical proficiency, we deliver reliable data, thorough analysis, innovative methods, novel technologies, and sustainable programs that help clients inform public policy and ground practice in evidence. We scale our approach to fit the demands of each project, delivering the power of a global leader and the passion of a local partner. We believe in the promise of science, and we push ourselves every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses around the world.
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