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Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA, CCL is the Founder and a Principal at Strategies for Equity and Communication Impact (SECI). A global health practitioner and a public health/social sciences academic, Renata is passionate advocate for health equity and a committed voice on the importance of addressing and removing barriers that prevent people from leading healthy and productive lives. She has worked with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz-Brazil), the Office of Minority Health Resource Center, HHS Office of Minority Health, and many other U.S. and international organizations to develop, evaluate, and/or promote interventions and policies to improve health and social outcomes among local communities, children and families, and many other groups. Over 20+ years, she has provided technical assistance, capacity building and training, and strategic support to interventions in the fields of public/global health, social and behavioral change communication, healthcare, and international/community development in the United States, and several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Eastern Asia.
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Renata is a leading proponent and established practitioner on a community-driven and interdisciplinary approach to address health, equity, and human rights issues and to provide local communities with ownership of the design, implementation, and evaluation of local interventions and policies, communication strategies, and research efforts. Across projects, she has worked with a variety of communities, including communities of color and immigrant communities in the United States, and people living in poverty, refugees, and patients from underserved areas in global settings. Renata has experience in 20+ health and development areas, including more recently, health equity/health inequities, maternal, newborn, infant, and child health, emerging disease outbreaks and epidemics, COVID-19, building community trust, health systems, community health, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation in the era of social media, infant mortality inequities, chronic malnutrition, cultural humility, and immunization. She has also significant experience in curriculum development and capacity building and training, including training programs for staff members and community leaders from 450+ organizations.
Renata is currently a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, where she has been teaching courses on Society, Health Equity, and Health Communication; Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR); Health Communication; and Global Trends in Child Health and Development Programs. She is also the Founder and Board President of Health Equity Initiative, a member-driven nonprofit membership organization with a network of 15,000+ members, followers, and subscribers; the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health (Taylor & Francis); and serves on the editorial board of Health Equity.
Over the past few years, Renata has also been actively engaged in the response to COVID-19 both in the United States and around the world. At SECI, she has been working on building the capacity of public health professionals, community leaders, population health professionals, and health journalists from a variety of organizations and country settings - including the United States and Brazil - to promote and implement a health equity- and human right-driven approach to pandemic response and recovery. She has designed and facilitated interactive workshops and other professional development programs on community engagement for health equity and international development during global health emergencies, community-based risk communication for pandemic response and recovery, and addressing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. She has also been acting as a media resource on COVID-19-related issues with interviews published in The Washington Post, ReachMD, and Elite Daily, among others.
A well-published author, Renata is the author of Health Communication: From Theory to Practice (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley), in its second edition, as well as 165+ scientific presentations and 65+ publications. She is currently working on an edited volume on Health Equity: Strategies for Action (Wiley, Fall 2023/Spring 2024). As part of her role at the Journal of Communication in Healthcare, Renata is currently leading an initiative to encourage research, understanding, and solutions to address the global trust crisis in science, medicine, and public health.
Her diverse background includes past academic positions at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York University, and The College of New Jersey; Executive Vice President, Cooney Waters Group (now Health Unlimited); and Head, Corporate and Marketing Communications and Social Responsibility Programs, Rhodia Farma (now Sanofi Aventis), Brazil.
Renata is a frequent speaker in a variety of U.S. and international settings, is fluent in English, Italian, and Portuguese, and can read and understand Spanish and French. She brings to her work an in-depth understanding of multiple communities, professional sectors, systems, and players; extensive experience as a public health and healthcare practitioner and entrepreneur; and, most important, her passion for making a difference in people's health and lives and addressing health, racial and social inequities.
For a full bio, visit www.renataschiavo.com - Follow Renata on Twitter at @RenataSNYC.
To check on availability for your next speaking engagement of workshop go to our contact page.
Renata is currently a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, where she has been teaching courses on Society, Health Equity, and Health Communication; Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR); Health Communication; and Global Trends in Child Health and Development Programs. She is also the Founder and Board President of Health Equity Initiative, a member-driven nonprofit membership organization with a network of 15,000+ members, followers, and subscribers; the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health (Taylor & Francis); and serves on the editorial board of Health Equity.
Over the past few years, Renata has also been actively engaged in the response to COVID-19 both in the United States and around the world. At SECI, she has been working on building the capacity of public health professionals, community leaders, population health professionals, and health journalists from a variety of organizations and country settings - including the United States and Brazil - to promote and implement a health equity- and human right-driven approach to pandemic response and recovery. She has designed and facilitated interactive workshops and other professional development programs on community engagement for health equity and international development during global health emergencies, community-based risk communication for pandemic response and recovery, and addressing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy. She has also been acting as a media resource on COVID-19-related issues with interviews published in The Washington Post, ReachMD, and Elite Daily, among others.
A well-published author, Renata is the author of Health Communication: From Theory to Practice (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley), in its second edition, as well as 165+ scientific presentations and 65+ publications. She is currently working on an edited volume on Health Equity: Strategies for Action (Wiley, Fall 2023/Spring 2024). As part of her role at the Journal of Communication in Healthcare, Renata is currently leading an initiative to encourage research, understanding, and solutions to address the global trust crisis in science, medicine, and public health.
Her diverse background includes past academic positions at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York University, and The College of New Jersey; Executive Vice President, Cooney Waters Group (now Health Unlimited); and Head, Corporate and Marketing Communications and Social Responsibility Programs, Rhodia Farma (now Sanofi Aventis), Brazil.
Renata is a frequent speaker in a variety of U.S. and international settings, is fluent in English, Italian, and Portuguese, and can read and understand Spanish and French. She brings to her work an in-depth understanding of multiple communities, professional sectors, systems, and players; extensive experience as a public health and healthcare practitioner and entrepreneur; and, most important, her passion for making a difference in people's health and lives and addressing health, racial and social inequities.
For a full bio, visit www.renataschiavo.com - Follow Renata on Twitter at @RenataSNYC.
To check on availability for your next speaking engagement of workshop go to our contact page.
Senior Associates
As a consulting practice that is committed to providing cost-effective solutions and limiting indirect costs, Strategies for Equity and Communication Impact (SECI), has an extensive network of senior associates who provide expertise on strategic counseling, project management, research design and implementation, program evaluation, writing/editing, graphic/online design, and more. An expert team is always tailored to meet the project's specifications and other specific needs of our clients. We also partner with consulting firms of the client’s choice for special needs. We look forward to assembling your project-specific dream team! In the meantime, click on the photos below to read about some of our wonderful senior associates!
