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Health Communication Leadership Institute

Overview

The Health Communication Leadership Institute is the Center for Health Communication’s premier professional education offering. In this engaging, advanced workshop, current and aspiring health communication leaders will learn strategies and best practices for leadership, management, and innovation. Speakers include respected experts from diverse sectors and settings. Sessions are highly participatory and case study driven.

Attendance is limited to professionals with at least seven years of work experience in for-profit, non-profit, or government settings.

HCLI 2023

The 2023 Health Communication Leadership Institute was held June 14-16, 2023, in Austin, TX. HCLI 2024 is scheduled for June 12-14, 2024. Additional details forthcoming.

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HCLI Director

The Health Communication Leadership Institute is led by Dr. Michael Mackert, Director of the Center for Health Communication. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher in health communication and the John P. McGovern Regents Professor in Health and Medical Science Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.

Founding Director

Dr. Jay Bernhardt is the President of Emerson College and Founding Director of the Center for Health Communication. He was the creator of the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media and the Digital Health Communication eXtravaganza, and former Director of the National Center for Health Marketing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

 

2023 Photos

 

A man and a woman sitting in chairs at the front of a room speaking to a crowd at the Health Communication Leadership Institute.
A group of people celebrating with their hands in the air.
Two Black women and a white man sitting in office chairs at the front of a lecture hall speaking to the attendees at the Health Communication Leadership Institute.
A Latina woman in a white denim jacket laughing