jueves, 12 de junio de 2014

CDC Around the World This Week: Communication in an Emergency Response

CDC Around the World This Week: Communication in an Emergency Response



CDC Around the World





IN THIS MESSAGE:
Photo of the Week
PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Communication plays an important role in responding to
global health outbreaks. Here CDC’s Dr. Pierre Rollin answers
media questions about Ebola as part of CDC’s team deployed
to Guinea. U.S. Ambassador to Guinea, Alexander Mark
Laskaris, is to the left of Dr. Rollin. View full-sized photo
Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Communication in an Emergency Response
In the News
On the Calendar
Blog of the Week

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
Infographic of the Week
HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Infographic of the Week: How to Communicate in a public health emergency response: CREDIBILITY (Accuracy of Information and Speed of Release) + TRUST (Empathy + Openness) = Successful Communication

View full-sized infographic
Video of the Week
WHO RESPONDS TO EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE OUTBREAK IN WEST AFRICA(from World Health Organization)
Video of the Week











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
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
In the News
South Africa ‘has already entered the post-antibiotic era’
Business Day (South Africa), June 5, 2014

Hypertension: an urgent need for global control and prevention
The Lancet, May 31, 2014

Progress continues in fight against AIDS
Houston Chronicle, May 12, 2014

Video: Second case of MERS in U.S.
ABC World News, May 12, 2014
On the Calendar
June 19: World Sickle Cell Day
June 20: World Refugee Day
July 11: World Population Day

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