Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health Coursera

Overview

Effective communication is a core skill that nearly every health professional will need and use during their careers. Yet, few health professionals receive even basic training in how to design communications to be clear and successful. As “foundational skills,” the content in this Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Michigan can be applied to both oral and written communication, within and beyond health.

Learners will develop the skills to: analyze and tailor a communication effort for different audiences, develop clear messages, create logical and compelling stories, understand and apply important considerations with language as well as nonverbal communication.

Content is relevant to public health professionals, clinicians of all types (medical, nursing, dentists, social work, etc.), health advocates, and scientists and researchers in any health domain.

What you'll learn

• Define and collect important information about a target audience in order to make appropriate decisions about the communication effort

• Select an audience-appropriate communications goal

• Craft a clear, concise core message for a communication effort

• Deploy at least two different types of narrative structures to support communications about health topics