Sheraton Sand Key Resort , Clearwater Beach, Florida, United States

The Social Marketing in Public Health Conference, now in its sixteenth year, is designed for public health professionals and health educators in a variety of settings including CDC, state and local health departments, other public agencies, colleges and universities, volunteer agencies, and nonprofit organisations. Participants usually include CDC designees, programme planners and administrators, health educators, health communication and health information specialists, researchers, academicians, and graduate students.

Cosponsored by The Academy for Educational Development and the University of South Florida, College of Public Health, the overall goals of this conference are to:

• Provide public health professionals who are new to social marketing a working knowledge of this approach;
• Advance social marketing practice and knowledge;
• Encourage networking between novice/intermediate practicing social marketers and leaders in the field; and
• Advance practice by sharing programme successes and challenges.

In both small sessions and a plenary session, the conference will examine social marketing approaches to addressing Avian Influenza in the health sector and wider arenas.

Click here for more information about registering for this conference.