[Air-L] ECREA Health Communication TWG and European Conference on Health Communication

[Sara Atanasova]

Gentle reminder: Deadline for extended abstract submission is
approaching - *June
15, 2019*



The European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC) 2019 is a joint
conference of the Health Communication Temporary Working Group (TWG) of the
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the
Health Communication Division of the German Communication Association
(DGPuK). The conference will be held from 13 to 15 November 2019 in Zurich
(Switzerland). It is hosted by the Department of Communication and Media
Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ).



The conference has a thematic focus on social aspects of health
communication. It will provide a platform for discussing the interrelations
between health, health communication, and people’s social contexts on
various levels and from diverse perspectives. With the aim to represent the
full scope of current health communication research, the ECHC also welcomes
research on further issues of health communication. Please find the CFP at
the following link: https://echc.ch/cfp/. *Deadline for submissions is 15
June 2019.*



The Health Communication Temporary TWG and the ECREA Young Scholars Network
(YECREA) are at ECHC organizing also a round table debate titled „The
responsible conduct of research: The ethical challenges and considerations
in health communication studies“. The event aims to encourage young
scholars to exchange and share their concerns, issues, questions, dilemmas,
and ideas with other scholars at different stages of their career. It will
take place at the 13 November (16:30 – 18:00) before the Get Together of
the ECHC conference in Zurich. Participants (young and senior scholars)
that would like to take part in the round table discussion can register by
sending an email with their name and affiliation to Sara Atanasova (YECREA
Representative) at sara.atanasova[at]fdv.uni-lj.si. Deadline for
application: 1 September 2019.



Please find more information about the events at the following links:
Health Communication TWG (https://ecrea.eu/Health-Communication), ECHC
conference (https://echc.ch/), and YECREA Round Table (
https://echc.ch/yecrea/).



Information can be also retrieved from the Chair of Health communication
TWG, Doreen Reifegerste (doreen.reifegerste[at]uni-erfurt.de) and ECHC
organizers – Department of Communication and Media Research; University of
Zurich (echc[at]ikmz.uzh.ch).