T2B2

Communicating Across Cultures

Speaker:
Ancella Livers, PhD, Manager, Open-Enrollment Programs, Center for Creative Leadership

Program Description:

Effective cross-cultural communication is critical if we are to reach the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing health disparities. Dr. Livers will discuss barriers to such communication and possible strategies to overcome these barriers. This broadcast is intended as a complement to an online course on Effective Cross-Cultural Communication to be available this fall through the New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center

Objectives:
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

• give two strategies for dealing with people from cultures different than their own.

Satellite broadcast originally aired Oct. 21, 2004.