Communications and Publications Support

The combined expertise of KEVRIC's communications and publications staff ensures the delivery of communications products of the highest quality, both in content and in presentation. Our staff include management, and information systems, health, and environmental writers and editors; graphic artists; desktop publishing specialists; and other publications professionals. In addition, KEVRIC's corporate emphasis on building a multicultural staff provides a high degree of understanding and sensitivity to social marketing issues and the needs of underserved populations.

KEVRIC's expertise in communications planning and social marketing extends to market research; audience identification; message development and testing; campaign strategizing, planning, and implementation; and message dissemination and evaluation. KEVRIC has developed communications materials targeted to diverse audiences. For example, KEVRIC has supported a number of projects for the Office on Women's Health, such as writing and disseminating fact sheets on a broad range of women's health issues for governmental, professional, academic, community, and consumer audiences. Our approach emphasizes the design and selection of appropriate pretests during the process of materials development. These initial assessments may take the form of focus groups, field interviews, surveys, or questionnaires.

KEVRIC's publications support services include research, writing, substantive and copy editing (on hard copy or online), proofreading, reference verification, and publications planning and management. In addition, we provide a wide range of graphic services, including conceptual design and layouts, figure and table preparation, photography, production, desktop publishing, and all other elements of preparing publications for printing. Using desktop-publishing software such as QuarkXPress and PageMaker, our desktop publishing specialists create final, camera-ready copy in the specified format. One example of our publications capabilities is an ongoing project to oversee the writing, editing, design, and production of the Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health, now being managed by KEVRIC staff for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Our project experience covers a wide range of materials, both print and nonprint, including the following:

• Presentation materials
• Technical documentation
• Web sites
• Interactive technology
• Online services
• Scientific reports
• Brochures
• Fact sheets
• Newsletters
• Journal articles