Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) was founded over 30 years ago by Phyllis Tilson Piotrow as a part the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's department of Health, Behavior, and Society and is located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

[1] CCP's goal is to advance the science of communication in order to improve health outcomes and save lives through programs such as knowledge management, social and behavior change communication, training and capacity building, strategic advocacy, Entertainment-Education and research and evaluation.

[4] The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs is involved with work across the globe, specifically focusing on developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa[5] and Asia.

Other additional early services offered by the CCP included the improvement of family planning through accreditation of public and private health facilities in low-income countries.

With two years of experience in the field of malaria control, CCP seeks to eliminate the disease on regional levels across the globe.