| Blog of the Week |
| COMMUNICATION MATTERS IN GLOBAL HEALTH DEPLOYMENTS |
| Communication matters. That’s not a new idea. Many of us have learned this the hard way. This concept is being applied in a new, more comprehensive way for a key purpose—to help the World Health Organization (WHO) communicate more effectively, with more clarity and purpose during humanitarian and public health emergencies. The idea is to better integrate communications specialists from WHO, CDC, ministries of health, and a wide array of other humanitarian and global health organizations into a cohesive, specially trained team that can be dispatched on short notice when public health or humanitarian emergencies occur…read blog |
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| Video of the Week |
| WHO RESPONDS TO EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA(from World Health Organization) |
In March 2014, the Ministry of Health of Guinea notified the World Health Organization of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in the south-eastern part of the country. The virus rapidly spread to the capital, Conakry, as well as to neighboring countries, such as Liberia. This is the first Ebola outbreak in West Africa. WHO, along with partners in the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and other international organizations, responded to requests from countries and deployed doctors and nurses, laboratory technicians, epidemiologists, logisticians, and other support staff to Conakry and other affected locations…watch video |
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| Story of the Week |
IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION IN OUTBREAK RESPONSE: EBOLA |
| As the crowd at the U.S. Embassy in Conakry, Guinea was gathering in early April, Craig Manning decided to play a hunch, even though—on paper—the meeting could have been mistaken for yet another routine and unremarkable exercise. Only this time it wasn’t. This time the featured speaker was CDC’s Dr. Pierre Rollin, a scientist comfortable with presenting complex information to audiences of both experts and lay people. Manning, a CDC health communication specialist, was ready. He brought a microphone and video camera to capture Rollin’s update about the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea. In his camera bag he had a stash of thumb-drives and in his head, a plan…read story |
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