Third INDEPTH Workshop on Communication Skills for Health Researchers

This workshop is designed to freshen up and fine-tune participants’ knowledge and skills of writing and presenting scientific knowledge to different audiences

The key aim is to highlight, explore and tackle those aspects of communication skills that impede effective transmission of scientific knowledge and ideas to policy makers and the general population at large. Academic papers, PowerPoint presentations and health leaflets must be sufficiently clear, precise and stylistically appropriate: they must match the purpose, audience and format (PAF), otherwise, they fail to achieve the key purpose of writing them. To effectively communicate ideas in written texts, writers or presenters need to match language, techniques and overall format to the target audience. This can be achieved in many ways including: the use of appropriate vocabulary, the right tone of voice as well presentational and structural techniques.