2021 VIRTUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH COMMUNICATION, MARKETING AND MEDIA

A Health Comm Hackathon Experience

A new way to develop innovative communication solutions to a specific health challenge

What is a Hackathon?

Common in the tech world, hackathons are a highly collaborative way of crowdsourcing innovative ideas and solutions. Here’s your opportunity to have a health communications hackathon experience, sponsored by Westat. You’ll work on a team to learn new ways to develop innovative communication solutions to a specific health challenge.

What you will learn

First-hand experience of collaborative brainstorming
Innovative tools for problem solving and team building
A new way to approach developing communications campaigns

The Experience

During two, 2-hour sessions, facilitators will guide teams through the brainstorming and campaign development process
For a final 90-minute session, your team will have 10 minutes to present your ideas to a panel of judges, who will give live feedback

The Results

Winners will be announced at the closing plenary and featured in an article on the NPHIC website.
A small prize – if you’re on the winning team!

Still have questions?

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