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Conference on Health Reporting For Caribbean Broadcasters

28 April 2005

Broadcasting in the Caribbean
"It is essential, in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the prevalence of other avoidable diseases, that broadcasters play a leading part in achieving one of the Millennium Development Goals for improvements in the health of the world." Elizabeth Smith
A regional conference on the role broadcasters can play in educating and informing the public on health issues in the Caribbean, will be held in Barbados from 28 to 30 April 2005. 
 
Organised by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) in collaboration with the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the conference will look at the health implications of new trends in TV marketing; health issues and tourism; chronic illnesses; violence and health; and the effectiveness of media campaigns in the Caribbean.  
 
There will also be management sessions for broadcast managers, including a day of leadership training provided by the CBC in collaboration with the Niagara Institute of Canada. The conference will be opened by the Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, and the Barbados Minister of Health, Dr Jerome Walcott.
 
Commenting on the conference, Elizabeth Smith, Secretary-General of the CBA, said: "It is essential, in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the prevalence of other avoidable diseases, that broadcasters play a leading part in achieving one of the Millennium Development Goals for improvements in the health of the world." 
 
Speakers include Marcia Forbes, who has just completed a study of the impact of music videos on the culture of young Jamaicans; Dr Ian Boxill, Head of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica; Professor Henry Fraser, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at the School of Clinical Medicine and Research, UWI, Barbados; Veta Brown, Caribbean Programme Co-ordinator for the Pan American Health Organisation; and Marjan de Bruin, Director, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communications, UWI, Jamaica. 
 
The conference is supported by the Commonwealth Foundation, Canadian International Development Agency and UNESCO.

CNIS - the Commonwealth News and Information Service Issue 232 27 April 2005

 

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