India Research Center
The India Research Center, based in Mumbai, serves as a hub for Harvard Chan School’s research projects, educational programs, and knowledge translation and communication work across India.
Email
irc@hsph.harvard.edu
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Location
Dextrus, 6th floor,
Peninsula Towers,
Peninsula Corporate Park,
Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013
India
Training for Media Houses
October 2019 – March 2020
- As part of SANCHAR (Science And News: Communicating Health And Research) project, 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 K. Viswanath 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 150 health journalists were trained through these workshops.