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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice

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This book explores the concepts of power and empowerment and their relationship to the public health system. It provides both theoretical discussion and concrete examples of how health practitioners can help individuals, groups, and communities to gain power, and it supplies a context for measurement and analysis of empowerment.

Contents for the fourth edition of the book, published by Red Globe Press (an imprint of Macmillan):
  • Public health practice in context
  • Power and empowerment
  • Empowerment and public health programmes
  • Helping individuals to become empowered
  • Patient empowerment
  • Helping groups to become more critically aware
  • Helping communities to become empowered
  • Helping communities to become empowered in disease outbreaks
  • Helping migrant populations to become empowered
  • The measurement and visual representation of community empowerment
The first translated edition of the book's third edition into Spanish was published in September 2019 as Salud Pública: Poder, Empoderamiento y Práctica Profesional. The third edition of the book has also been translated into Italian and Chinese.

Languages

English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese

Number of Pages

184 (English; 4th edition)

Source

Emails from Glenn Laverack to The Communication Initiative on February 16 2005 and October 25 2019; Palgrave Macmillan website, February 19 2005; Global Health Weekly Update, August 8 2005; and Macmillan International Higher Education website and Lulu website - both accessed on October 25 2019.

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Click here to order the book in English from the publisher.
Click here to order the book in Spanish.
Click here for details about the Italian edition of the book (in Italian).
Click here for details about the Chinese edition of the book (in Chinese).