The Center for Health Communication’s Creators program is working to build partnerships with creators who want to spread evidence-based information about public health. Creators are watched and trusted by millions, making them critical partners in ensuring that people have access to the health information that they want and need.
See news coverage about our partnerships…
The New York Times
Ellen Barry, mental health reporter at The New York Times, takes you on the ground at 2023’s Creators Summit on Mental Health at Harvard.
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Bloomberg Opinion
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lisa Jarvis argues that it’s about time that we train social media stars to provide their followers with evidence-backed content.
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It's Been a Minute (from NPR)
It’s Been A Minute host Brittany Luse is joined by the Center for Health Communication’s Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer to discuss why “working with TikTok to spread good information could be more strategic than writing it off as a den of misinformation.”
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NPR
Andrea Muraskin, NPR contributor, covers creator Kate Speer’s journey in the Mental Health Creator Program.
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The Hill
Writing for The Hill, the Center for Health Communication’s Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer lay out why we need to harness the viral power of social media for public health right now.
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MindSite News
MindSite News‘ Courtney Wise covers the motivations and strategy behind the Creators Summit on Mental Health.
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BU School of Public Health
In this article, Jillian McKoy covers how Boston University and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers teamed up for a field experiment testing how health experts and social media influencers can increase evidence-based information on social media.
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Harvard Healthy Building Program
This blog post by the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program covers the briefing that was provided to mental health content creators about the surprising link between indoor air quality and mental health.
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