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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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HC3's Health Communication Innovation Webinar Series Webinar 3: Gaming

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Date: December 3 at 11 AM EDT

The Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative presents its third Health Communication Innovation webinar. This installment will focus on gaming and will be moderated by Dr. Mike Christel, Teaching Professor at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Presentations and demos are designed to give the audience foundational insight into the theories behind gaming and also highlight innovative ways games can facilitate health communication and improve health outcomes.

Panelists include:

"Diane Tucker, Director of the Serious Games Initiative at the Wilson Center, is a game designer and producer as well as a gesture researcher. Alongside her work in serious games, she has studied the body and gesture and their use to develop new forms of emotionally compelling play based on the interrelationships among movement, emotion, and story.

Dr. Parvati Dev, President and CEO of Innovation in Learning, has 35 years of experience developing technology solutions to support life sciences learning and research, including leading groups of engineers and scientists in corporate and academic settings. At Stanford University she founded and ran an internationally recognized learning technologies lab, SUMMIT, that produced innovations in multimedia, web and simulation for medical education.

Sherry Youssef is the Program Manager for the Innovations for Youth Capacity and Engagement (IYCE) project which is piloting the first virtual-meets-real-world serious game for youth engagement, Our City. She has almost two decades of experience in international economic development as a youth workforce specialist and a MENA business development expert."