General Resources for Training in Outreach and Communication

The following links are a crowdsourced list of materials and resources that may help you better communicate no matter the medium you are using to carry out your outreach. These are meant to help your self-study in becoming a better communicator, and will most likely benefit you in numerous areas of your professional and personal life. If you’d like to contribute to this list, please email DrGriffin@naturemed.org.

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Writing

Public Speaking

Productive Conversations

Communicating Over Video Call

Giving Presentations

Creating Videos/Films

Communicating through Visual Aids, Graphs, Graphics

Storytelling

Making Accessible Digital Content and User Experiences

Improving Health Literacy of Your Audience

Community Engagement

Leadership

Social Change

Media Training

those who apply to be one of the 50 ambassadors each year will be provided advanced media training