David Poindexter Receives the Everett M. Rogers Award

David Poindexter was awarded the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment-Education at Hollywood, Health, Society’s annual Sentinel for Health Awards. The award ceremony was held at the Writers Guild of America, West in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008.

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David Poindexter currently serves as Population Media Center’s Honorary Board Chair. Poindexter has four decades of experience in designing and implementing reproductive health communications programs in developing countries, using the entertainment-education methodology created by Miguel Sabido. He has done this work as Director of the Communications Center of the Population Institute, founder and President of Population Communications International, and most recently as a program consultant for Population Media Center.