Training for Media Houses as part of Project Sachar

As part of Project SANCHAR (Science And News: Communicating Health And Research), training workshops for health journalists on ‘How to avoid misinformation: A workshop on evidence-based health reporting’, or, ‘भ्रामक सूचना से कैसे बचें : साक्ष्य आधारित स्वास्थ्य पत्रकारिता’ were conducted. The workshops were led by Dr. K. Viswanath, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, and used interactive exercises and examples for teaching how to interpret evidence and translate them into stories. Trainings were conducted with Hindi media houses such as – Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran, Hindustan, where journalists reporting on health across UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh attended the training. A total of about 180 health journalists were trained through these workshops.