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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit

London: Mental Health Innovation Network;London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2015), 27 pp.
"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This toolkit will help you to know: 1. How to package your key messages to make them remembered and acted upon by your stakeholders; 2. How to plan your communications methods and activities to achieve your project and policy objectives; 3. How to produce communications products, including impact statements, blogs, infographics and policy briefs, to communicate your key messages to your stakeholders." (Overview)
Guiding principles: packaging your key messages, 5
Knowing your stakeholders, 5
Getting your message to stick, 6
Tool 1. Developing your communications workplan, 11
Tool 2. Perfect communications product checklist, 13
Tool 3. How to write an impact summary, 15
Tool 4. How to write a blog, 16
Tool 5. How to create an infographic, 19
Tool 6. How to write a policy brief, 23