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Dear Amanda,
I suggest you take a look at the Xplore Health website: http://www.xplorehealth.eu/
Xplore Health is a European project aimed at building and promoting an online portal on the latest health research. The project is coordinated by the Barcelona Science Park and project partners are Ecsite, the European Schoolnet and Centre of the Cell.
The portal already contains multimedia tools for public engagement such as videos, dialogue games, experiment protocols, virtual experiments and animations. At the moment one full module is already available (on “How are drugs developed?”) and new modules/topics will be uploaded soon.
The tools and modules will be used in specific events which are being organized in 5 European science centres (At-Bristol and Centre for Life in UK, Copernicus Science Centre in Poland, Domus at Museos Científicos Coruñeses in Spain and Jardin des Sciences de l'Université de Strasbourg in France) which have been selected as members of the project Outreach Committee.
If you need further information please don't hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes,
Marzia
Marzia Mazzonetto, Projects Coordinator - Ecsite Executive Office, Coudenberg 70/5, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Tel : +32 2 649 73 83 Fax : +32 2 647 50 98 [log in to unmask] www.ecsite.eu
From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amanda Burls
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Tools to enhance public understanding of health research or information?
We are a group of health professionals and researchers who are developing an inventory of interactive applications and games that teach people (consumers, decision-makers, professionals) how to be discrimintating users of information about the effects of health care. This inventory is being developed as background work for an international network of researchers and educators interested in improving public understanding of health research
If you are aware of any potentially relevant resources, we would be grateful if you would tell us about them.
Specifically, we are looking for resources meeting the following criteria:
-Support learning about the effects of health care or how to appraise health research
-Target the general population, decision-makers (e.g. policy makers), and/or professional audiences (students, clinicians)
-Are interactive (support some type of two-way transfer of information, including quizzes, simulations, games, data entry, adaptation, etc.)
-Are open access (freely accessible by the public) and free -Web-based or downloadable
Some examples include:
Thank you for your help.
Amanda Burls
Sir Iain Chalmers
Lisa Schwartz
Steve Woloshin
Andy Oxman
Ben Goldacre
Paul Glasziou
Kendall Krause
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