UNICEF collaborates with MANUU to conduct workshop for effective reporting on child health- Education News
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF has partnered with the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ), Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), for a two-day workshop for Effective Reporting on Child Health.
Over 120 students of journalism and mass communication from MANUU, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and Himachal Pradesh University and health journalists learnt the importance of evidence-based reporting and fact-checking in health journalism through UNICEF’s Critical Appraisal Skills (CAS) programme.
The workshop brought together practitioners of CAS, journalism students and subject experts to discuss the importance of evidence-based journalism in areas that impact children, such as Routine Immunization, Covid-19 and vaccines, antibiotics, mother and child health and primary healthcare.
The CAS programme that was developed in 2014 by UNICEF, in association with Oxford University, Thomson Reuters and IIMC for working with health journalists and students of journalism and mass communication, was later adapted as an elective module in their curriculum by IIMC and MANUU.
Speaking at the inauguration of the workshop, Prof. Syed Ainul Hasan, Vice-Chancellor, MANUU, said, “The recent pandemic has driven the world’s attention towards the importance of health communication. The media can play a vital role in creating the demand for immunization. However, as many of our journalists come from a non-medical background, the introduction of CAS at the academic level helps train journalists in health journalism and encourages a scientific mindset among the masses.”
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