The 37th National Immunization Conference of CDC

Ontario
Wednesday, March 19, 2003: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM

F8: Thinking Like a (Social) Marketer

When public health professionals use the tools of private-sector marketing, it's called social marketing. Social marketing combines audience research, community involvement, and behavioral science to guide program development and delivery. Learning to see a problem from your target population's viewpoint provides a logical way to decide what intervention approach would be most effective. Social marketing's success comes from knowing how to frame a message, when to utilize a skill-building session, and when to use a media campaign or community outreach. In this workshop you'll gain: 1) a thorough understanding of how and why target audiences behave as they do; 2) some ways to create an "exchange relationship" to influence those behaviors; and 3) tools to manage intervention programs by continuously monitoring and altering them to fit the needs of the target audiences.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this workshop participants will be able to define the 4 "P’s" of marketing, assess a target audience’s perceived benefits and barriers, describe three methods for conducting formative research, and list two sources of low-to-no cost information.

Moderator:Karena F. Sapsis
4:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
4:05 PMPresentation — Kari Sapsis
5:20 PMDiscussion

The 37th National Immunization Conference of CDC