Health Communication and Disease in Africa

‘This book will be of great value to health practitioners and policy-makers, researchersand students. Chapters showcase a range of theoretical approaches to healthcommunication skilfully linked by the editors’ Introductory and Concluding chapters.Together they provide the basis for a theoretical toolkit for the development ofactionable understandings of the processes through which abstract scientificknowledge is communicated to real people in real contexts – and the social andpsychological factors that mediate the success of a communication.It presents a compelling vision of an approach that is deeply rooted in Africanscholarship.’— Catherine Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Departmentof Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics andPolitical Science, UK

Bankole Falade is a research fellow with the South African Research Chair in
Science Communication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Visiting
Fellow, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, London School of

Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. His research interests are in

science and health communication.

Mercy Murire is a Senior researcher at the Wits Reproductive Health Institute

(WRHI) and a researcher at University of Witwatersrand with the school of clinical

medicine. Her research interests are in psychology and public health focusing on

the intersections between sexual and reproductive health (SRH), mental health,

sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV prevention, HIV stigma, contraceptives,

and gender-based violence in adolescent girls and young women.