Communications Committee Meeting Highlights | 2-26-2025
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Awareness Day Content Collaborations
Creating 2 graphics for each awareness day to provide content to organizations who are limited in capacity to create and share.
Potential Collaborations: We will be directly messaging partners to collaborate on some awareness days. Outreach strategy is to email and schedule 30-minute call. Below are the days and collaboration partner. (Highlighted awareness days need partner collaboration)
- National Infant Immunization Week (April 21 – 28)
- Adult Hep B Vaccination Day (April 30 Charles B Wang)
- Hep Awareness Month (May)
- National Hispanic Hepatitis Awareness Day (May 15 Hispanic Federation and Latino Commission on Aids)
- Hep C & HIV Coinfection (May 17 Alliance for Positive Change)
- National Hepatitis Testing Day (May 19 Korean Community Services)
- World Hepatitis Day (July 28)
- National Immunization Awareness Month (August)
- National African Immigrant & Refugee HIV/AIDS (September 9 African Services Committee, Mount Sinai HONE, Montefiore)
- Liver Cancer Awareness Month (October)
- World Hepatitis Testing Week (November 18 – 22)
Hepatitis Awareness Month
- Flyers – Design will stay the same and content will change once event information is confirmed.
- Website – Add a 2024 recap section below event content information.
Other projects
- Create 1 storytelling video on how one’s work has impacted oneself’ s and the work they’ve been doing with their community
- Potential teller: Zaida
- Invite Michelle from Hep B foundation to help us get the foundation of starting a storytelling series.
- Create a social media network, a group of active Hep Free NYC members on Instagram, X or LinkedIn, to help distribute created content to reach audience.
Resources
- World Hepatitis Testing Week Collaboration w/ Housing Works
- 2024 Hepatitis Awareness Month Flyer
Upcoming Events
- NYC Hep B Coalition. March 19 (2- 4 PM) RSVP
- NYC Hep C Task Force. March 26 (2 – 4 PM) RSVP
- Public Health Communication Collaborative
- PHCC Academy
- Insights to Practice Virtual Conference. March 26 (1- 4:45 PM)
Attendance:
- Alma Chaves, Program Coordinator, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, achaves@health.nyc.gov
- Assita Belemkoabga, Associate Researcher, Mount Sinai Health System, assita.belemkoabga@mssm.edu
- Jonathan Rodriguez, Health Programs Coordinator, Hispanic Federation, jrodriguez@hispanicfederation.org
- Joy Cambe, Program Coordinator, Empire Liver Foundation, joycambe@empireliverfoundation.org
- Naomi Porter, Digital Media Intern, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, nporter@health.nyc.gov
- Reed Vreeland, Viral Hep Elimination Coord/Policy Analyst, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, rvreeland@health.nyc.gov
- Sarah Ahmed, Social Marketing Project Director, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, sahmed10@health.nyc.gov
Last Updated on March 12, 2025 by HepFree NYC
Tags: Communications Committee
