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Welcome!

The AED Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing (CGHCM) is dedicated to bringing about positive changes in the actions of individuals, communities, and institutions that will improve the health and well-being of vulnerable populations around the world. AED has worked to create programs which communicate authentic and persuasive messages, encouraging people to both adopt positive behaviors and to change the conditions to facilitate those behaviors. Over the past 25 years, AED has developed groundbreaking health behavior change strategies, publications, and tools. In providing access to these resources, we hope to encourage more program designers and managers to incorporate sound behavior change methodologies into their work, creating wide-scale and lasting changes in practices.

Highlights

As part of its avian influenza work in Southeast Asia, AED staff have created and cultivated an unlikely superhero, SuperChicken, a broad-breasted rooster with a familiar red cape and strong opinions about the best ways to stop the spread of bird flu. In both Cambodia and Laos, SuperChicken has appeared in public service announcements, on posters, and in booklets where he demonstrated the “hows” to preventing the avian influenza virus from appearing and spreading.  To view materials featuring SuperChicken, visit http://www.avianflu.aed.org/asia.htm and click on Laos or Cambodia.

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The Center

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CGHCM aims to develop effective methodologies and innovative communication and marketing solutions to global health problems. AED's approach to behavior change is built upon the interaction between people and their social environment using proven behavior change strategies.

Tools

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AED pioneered projects and interventions in health behavior change over the past quarter century. Here, you can access AED's best tools and publications.

Search by any of our strategy areas or access tools that aid in planning and research.

Projects

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As part of AED's Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group, CGHCM currently manages 21 international health projects. These health communications projects address the following health areas: Breastfeeding, Child Survival, Environmental Health, Family Planning/Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition and Food Security.