Presenter Profile
Maneesha Agarwal, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Emory School of Medicine
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Dr. Maneesha Agarwal is an assistant professor in pediatrics and emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and an attending physician in pediatric emergency medicine at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She received her undergraduate and medical school degrees at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill followed by pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. She is passionate about injury prevention, and her previous work encompasses multiple fields including poisoning prevention, child passenger safety, teen driving, firearm safety, consumer product safety, and adverse childhood experiences. Dr. Agarwal enjoys research, advocacy, education, and mentoring the next generation of injury prevention leaders. She co-founded the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Injury Prevention Program (CHIPP) and serves as the pediatrics expert for the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory.
Presentations
Improving your Social Media Messaging for Injury Prevention
Part of session:
Saturday, December 3, 2022, 1:30 PM to
2:45 PM
Description:
Social media is increasingly becoming an important and popular mode of sharing health information with the general public. Effective communication on common social media platforms is critical for injury prevention researchers, educators and advocates to increase accessible injury prevention messaging at local, state, national, and international levels. Having an engagement strategy as to how to best create and share injury prevention content can increase confidence and success for these social media users. This hands-on workshop will refresh attendees on the basics of effective messaging on social media and allow opportunities to apply and enhance these skills. Attendees will also have the opportunity to share and troubleshoot obstacles they have encountered with their current social media engagement strategy. So bring your fully charged laptop or phone, and be ready to practice tweeting, Instagramming, using hashtags, and more!
Objectives:
Attendees of this workshop will be able to: 1. Craft succinct and impactful social media messages relevant to injury prevention. 2. Identify and apply easy and effective ways to engage and educate users on social media with evidence-based messages. 3. Acknowledge and manage pitfalls and obstacles of social media use.
