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CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen will be keynote speaker for Oct. 11 dinner

September 27, 2010

Arnold School of Public Health faculty and doctoral students will have a key role in presentations at this year’s USC Convergent Journalism conference, Oct. 11 – 12.

The conference, titled “Convergence and Society: Science, Health, and New Dimensions of Communication” will combine the traditional focus on convergent journalism with studies of health and science communication.

Co-sponsored by USC’s Science and Health Communication Research Group and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, the two-day event will provide a forum for the presentation of research regarding science and health communication, particularly regarding how science and health messages can be effectively communicated to the public through new media and technology.

Elizabeth Cohen, a senior medical correspondent for CNN, will be the keynote speaker. Cohen’s reporting has contributed to CNN winning two Emmy Awards for news coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Seven of the 11 research group presenters at the conference are from the Arnold School’s Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior.

Presenters from the Arnold School and the titles of their presentations and names are:

• From Web 1.0 to 2.0: What is the 'Social Web' telling us about prostate cancer screening. Alexis Koskan, India Rose and Daniela B. Friedman.
• Electronic feedback in a diet- and physical activity-based lifestyle intervention for weight loss: randomized controlled trial. Vaughn W. Barry, Sara Shuger, Xuemei Sui, Rebecca A. Meriwether, Gregory A. Hand, Marsha Dowda, and Steven N. Blair.
• Media discourse on smoke-free policies: Stability and change in South Carolina print media. James Thrasher, Sei-Hill Kim, India Rose and Ashley Navarro.
• •WE CAN! Prevent, treat, and beat colon cancer: Using multiple communication channels to implement a colon cancer program. Heather M. Brandt, Tina Marie Devlin, Annette Cook, Swann Arp Adams, Lucy Annang, Suzanne Swan, Lauren Workman, Michelle Williams and Heather Ranhofer.

For registration information and the conference schedule, visit the Science and Health Communication website.