[liberationtech] Texting for Sexual Health: Effects of Information Provision and Common Knowledge on Health-Seeking Behavior in Kenya - FSI Stanford

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http://fsi.stanford.edu/events/7999?

Texting for Sexual Health: Effects of Information Provision and Common Knowledge on Health-Seeking Behavior in Kenya  
Seminar

DATE AND TIME
January 17, 2014
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

AVAILABILITY
Open to the public
No RSVP required

SPEAKERS
Joshua Cohen - Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, and Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law at Stanford University
Risa Kitagawa - PhD Candidate, Political Science at Stanford University

In hopes of increasing awareness that could minimize sexual health risks, the team will promote a mobile health counseling service, which will enable young people in Nairobi’s Mathare slums to receive private and reliable answers from health counselors through text messaging.

LOCATION
CISAC Conference Room
Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305