MCI Musings: Communications & Male Contraception

Dear Friends of MCI,

While most people probably think about MCI as an organization that makes grants to developers of nonhormonal male contraceptive methods, another vital and somewhat overlooked aspect of our work is our communications efforts. It is easy to see why this is the case as grants are an obvious and critical part of ensuring that male contraceptives become a reality. However, the funding that supports those grants relies heavily on the ability of our team to effectively communicate the demand for male contraceptive methods, the public health relevance, the successes, the challenges, and the other myriad of reasons why people should pay attention to the work of our grantees and colleagues. 

Given the importance of our communication efforts, our comms team takes their role very seriously. There are quarterly evaluations of our website content, curation of infographics, planning and development of social media content, and other behind-the-scenes work that doesn’t get much attention (unless of course something goes wrong). As you have likely already noticed, the team’s most recent evaluation focused on our newsletter. 

It is not lost on us how many of you actually take the time to open our monthly newsletter and read through the various sections. It is a source of pride for our team as everyone has a role to play in providing content. We’ve always focused on sharing a lot of information, mostly out of excitement and to build a sense of community. We also realize you have a lot of information coming your way every day, so we decided to revisit our newsletter to see what aspects garnered the most interest with the aim of streamlining our content. 

So, here is our new format - ta-da! A special thanks to our comms team, Sabey Boswell and Kevin Shane, for their efforts in evaluating and redesigning the format. We hope you like the change! Please feel free to drop us a line with any thoughts that you have. We’re always listening! 

Warm regards,
The MCI Team

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"MCI Musings" is a letter from Executive Director, Heather Vahdat, and is included in our monthly newsletter. This newsletter offers up-to-date information about male contraception research and development and issues related to the field. Please click the button below to sign up to receive this informative newsletter directly to your email's inbox each month!

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