The Health Connections Commons conference is a collaborative campus and ?community event.
Mohan Dutta, head of the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, will give his lecture at 10 a.m. today in the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, according to an IU release.
His talk “Communication and spaces of structural transformation: Collaborating for alternative imaginations” is free and open to the public.
The conference aims to engage the University and the surrounding community in creating a sustainable and healthy Bloomington.
The organizers are working to create an online Health Connections Commons that will help conference participants take action in issues of health and wellness.
“The development of effective solutions to today’s public health challenges requires genuine partnerships between communities and academic and governmental institutions,” said Michael Reece, associate dean for research and graduate studies at the School of Public Health, in the release.
The conference and commons are funded in part by the Ostrom Grant program, which exists in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dutta’s lecture will draw largely on his experience in communications.
The conference will also include sessions on service-learning partnerships and community-based research.
Anna Hyzy
