Center for Health Communication
The Center for Health Communication prepares public health leaders of all kinds to effectively communicate critical health information, influence policy decisions, counter misinformation, and increase the public’s trust in health expertise.
Explore toolkits and briefings for creators who want to spread evidence-based information from the Center for Health Communication.
The Center for Health Communication at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health prepares public health leaders of all kinds—including social media creators, who in today’s world millions of people look to for health information—to effectively communicate critical health information.
As part of our Creator Program, we create content toolkits and briefings for creators who want to spread evidence-based health information, starting with those working in mental health.
Explore our library of toolkits and briefings by topic:
Suicide: How to talk about it online and support prevention efforts in and beyond your community
Use our toolkit to promote responsible messaging about suicide prevention that reduces stigma and encourages safe, supportive dialogue on social media.
How racial discrimination decays mental health, and what we can do about it
Use our toolkit and briefing to help your community understand and act on the links between racial discrimination and mental health.
Parenting and social media: how parents can support teen mental health
Conversations involving teens, mental health, social media and parenting are often tense. Use our toolkit and briefing to help your community turn these into more hopeful conversations.
Unpacking fatphobia, weight discrimination, and their deadly repercussions
Weight discrimination is more than bullying. It is a systemic, structural, and deadly problem that affects everyone. Use our toolkit and briefing to talk about it with your community.
We all need support
Young people are more likely to ask each other for mental health support than they are to ask adults. Use our toolkit and briefing to talk about how to provide quality support.
Healthy air, healthy minds
The connection between air pollution and mental health is a critical but overlooked aspect of mental well-being. Use our toolkit and briefing to talk about it with your communities.
Connecting people to the help they need
Around the world, people can’t access the mental health care they need. Use our toolkit to talk about the emerging mental health solutions that could scale to meet that need.
How trauma spans generations
A mother’s mental health struggles are not just her own. Use our toolkit to talk about how those struggles can reverberate for generations, and what public health can do about it.
The science behind the mind-body link
Mental health is physical health. Use our toolkit to talk about the emerging science behind the mind-body link.
The truth behind 'climate grief'
The climate crisis is degrading our mental health. Use our toolkit to talk about who is bearing the greatest burden and what tools and resources we have and need to cope.
Mental health and financial stability
Giving families with kids a tax credit improves parents’ mental health. Use our toolkit to talk about the evidence for that link.
Mindfulness and mental health
Use our toolkit to talk about how mindfulness promotes self-awareness, emotional regulation, stress reduction, and overall resilience in the face of life’s challenges.