Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs


The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was founded over 30 years ago by Phyllis Tilson Piotrow as a part the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's department of Health, Behavior, and Society and is located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
CCP's goal is to advance the science of communication in order to improve health outcomes and save lives through programs such as knowledge management, social and behavior change communication, training and capacity building, strategic advocacy, Entertainment-Education and research and evaluation. The Center for Communication Programs works in over 60 countries, like Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. CCP aims to improve a span of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health, family planning, water and sanitation, tobacco control, nutrition, avian and pandemic influenza, maternal and child health, and gender. CCP partners with many programs both domestically and abroad that seek to advance the health status of nations suffering from these health conditions and more.

Global health programs

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is involved with work across the globe, specifically focusing on developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The range of global health programs that CCP offers can be seen on their and individual projects can be viewed on their .

Reproductive health and family planning

CCP was founded with reproductive health and family planning at the heart of its initial programming. There was an urgent need for increased communication and behavior change to help support existing health programs, the first of which was USAID's Population Communication Services Project. Other additional early services offered by the CCP included the improvement of family planning through accreditation of public and private health facilities in low-income countries. The family planning and reproductive health element of CCP is the keystone program which CCP's other programmers were founded on. CCP has partnered with many projects, some of which are listed below.

HIV/AIDS

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs partners with domestic and international groups to design, implement, and evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention programs in developing countries. The main goal of these programs is to "address 1) key drivers to primary prevention behaviors, 2) underlying societal factors, and 3) support to biomedical prevention methods." CCP is partnered with many projects, the whole list is available at .

Malaria

CCP's global program on malaria works with ongoing international programs to promote behavior change communication, advocacy, health marketing, usage of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, and antimalarial medication. With two years of experience in the field of malaria control, CCP seeks to eliminate the disease on regional levels across the globe. CCP works with a variety of programs to achieve this goal, and a full list of these projects can be viewed at .