Special Session – Workshop for Journalists in Pakistan – January 2023

Special Session on Building Capacity of Health Journalists on Reporting Disasters Triggered by Natural Hazards and Human Activities

This page contains the Description, Speakers and Registration

 

Description

The Special Session workshop on Building Capacity of Health Journalists on Reporting Disasters Triggered by Natural Hazards and Human Activities will take place on Thursday 19th January 2023 at 10:00 – 16:00 PST (Pakistan) which equates to 05:00 – 11:00 GMT (UK) and 10:30 – 16:30 IST (India).

This national training workshop will take place at the Latif Ebrahim Jamal National Science Information Center (LJNSIC), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan. The workshop has been organised in collaboration with the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Sindh Innovation Research, and Education Network (SIREN) and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS, Sindh Chapter).

This Special Session aims:

  • To teach health journalists about avoidable deaths and their reasons
  • To improve the quality, credibility and relevance of health journalism in Pakistan
  • To build the capacity of media persons in term of good quality reporting
  • To increase communication between media and health experts


Speakers


Registration

 

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