Historical Background of the GHCC
As part of Indiana University (IU) the Global Health Communication Center (GHCC), which is located at Indiana University – Purdue University in Indianapolis is an Institute for Research on social issues that launched in May, 2006. In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the founding Co-Directors were Dr. John Parrish-Sprowl of IUPUI and Everold Hosein of IUPUI and WHO, the latter of whom left shortly after the launch of the center. Samia Alajlouni was the founding Assistant Director. There were multiple reasons for creating the GHCC and even more remain or reveal themselves today. First, the key to understanding global health relies on what is known on how communication is distributed through quality of care, availability, and research. Second, global health additionally is contingent upon what people accomplish when participating in good from going to a health clinic when applicable; following advice from a physician, a health care professional, or care provider; and adhering to their directions regarding effective health methods practices, or habits.
The GHCC utilizes research, consultation, and training based on the research that concentrates on stimulating behaviors from people vital to making more useful health knowledge and medical practice. The original mission as shared by Dr. John Parrish-Sprowl (2006) of the GHCC was as follows, “dedicated to improving health around the world by creating greater access to health care and better health care practices, through more effective health communication.” From the same presentation, Dr. John Parrish-Sprowl shared that in order to achieve the mission of the GHCC, associates engage in the following: facilitating trainings to generate health communication campaigns with greater efficacy, partaking in community recruitment worldwide, participating in communication consultation, and sharing research presentations around the world (2006).