From TV to Twitter

Women’s Health Virginia’s 13th annual conference, From TV to Twitter: Media’s Links to Healthy & Risky Behaviors, will take place on Friday, June 11, at Alumni Hall in Charlottesville. The day-long event will examine the exposure to media during childhood, teen years and young adulthood and the effects on wellness in those periods and on the lifelong well being of women. Speakers will also discuss how media’s positive impacts can be enhanced and negative ones mitigated.

The program will feature national and Virginia experts, who will discuss media’s impacts on physical and mental health and the social and educational development of young females from infancy through young adulthood. They will explore the connection between media and the development of healthy and risky behaviors, particularly regarding diet, nutrition, physical activity, violence, substance use, and relationships. They will also address how girls and young women are using media to access health information, how the media can effectively promote health, and how health professionals, educators, parents and others can help girls become more savvy about their media use. 

“We know that girls, teens and young women are using a wide variety of media and that the impacts are great,” said Miriam Bender, chief executive officer of Women’s Health Virginia. “This program was designed to help all who share our concern about improving girls and women’s health to know how they can help girls understand the messages they see and hear and make better health decisions.”

Registration costs $75 and includes materials, lunch, parking and continuing education credits for health and education professionals. There is a special student registration for $40. Details about the schedule and speakers, continuing education credits and forms for mailed registration or online registration are available at http://www.womenshealthvirginia.org.  For questions and phone registration with a credit card payment, call (434) 220-4500.

Women’s Health Virginia appreciates conference support from the Office of Women’s Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services, The Virginia Department of Health Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.

Women’s Health Virginia is a nonprofit organization, headquartered in Charlottesville, which enhances the health and well being of women and girls in Virginia through education, research and collaboration.