Activities and documents | ||
 | WHY Media Award | |
| Selected stories from WHY journalists will be included in a multimedia publication to be launched at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in 2010 | ||
| World Health Youth (WHY) Environment and Health Communication Network [pdf, 435KB] | |
| This concise leaflet explains aims and activities of the WHY network | ||
| Media workshop on prevention of family violence. Riga, Latvia, 8-9 June 2009 | |
| This workshop was organized as an integral part of the Nordic Baltic workshop on the prevention of family violence, focusing on the role of health sector in multisectoral response | ||
| Environment and health media workshop. Bonn, Germany, 27-29 April 2009 | |
| Second meeting of the World Health Youth (WHY) Communication Network on environment and health | ||
| Environment and health media workshop. Madrid, Spain, 19-21 October 2008 | |
| First meeting of the World Health Youth (WHY) Communication Network on environment and health | ||
| World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) [external link] | |
| Link to website | ||
WHO/Europe, with the assistance of World Health Communication Associates, supports the World Health Youth (WHY) Environment and Health Communication Network. Its key objective is to catalyse the involvement of young journalists from European countries in the environment and health process, thus developing capacity, enhancing the quality and quantity of coverage, and building sustainable communications across the WHO European Region.
Young journalists (18-30 years old) are invited to join the Network. Please send a letter of interest and your curriculum vitae to Ms Cristiana Salvi (press.he@ecr.euro.who.int).
WHY Network members are given exclusive briefings and are supported with information and contacts for their reporting on environment and health in Europe.
The WHY network counts about 60 journalists from 29 European countries (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) and the
