Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center For Communication Programs

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP)

Company Snapshot

• Parent Institution: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of Health, Behavior and Society).
• Established: 1988 by Dr. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow.
• Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
• Staff Size: Approximately 600 employees operating globally.
• Financial Scale: Manages over $100 million in yearly project revenue and expenditures.
• Geographic Reach: Active in more than 30 countries with over 60 ongoing projects globally. Since its inception in 1988, CCP programs have reached more than 1 billion people worldwide.

Mission and Vision

• Mission: To enable people around the world to make healthy choices and advance the science and art of strategic communication to improve health and save lives.
• Vision: A world where all individuals, families, and communities thrive, supported by equitable and responsive systems.
• Approach: The organization utilizes evidence-based, people-centered approaches to dismantle systemic barriers, ignite collective action, and center fairness and inclusion.

Core Technical Strengths

• Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC): Designing programs that influence political dialogue, collective action, and individual behavior.
• Knowledge Management: Enhancing access to information and exchanging knowledge to improve overall health and health care.
• Training and Capacity Building: Strengthening infrastructure and training professionals to amplify essential voices and advance systems.
• Research and Evaluation: Conducting rigorous research to guide program design, evaluate impact, and build the evidence base for health communication theories.

Key Health Issue Focus Areas

• Reproductive Health & Family Planning: A foundational program element for CCP.
• Infectious Diseases: Designing communication initiatives for HIV/AIDS prevention, malaria control (including the promotion of insecticide-treated mosquito nets), and avian/pandemic influenza.
• Wider Global Health Initiatives: Promoting maternal and child health, better nutrition, water and sanitation (WASH), tobacco control, and gender equity.

Major Partners & Donors

• CCP's global initiatives are heavily supported by leading international development organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and DFID.