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Information Ecosystem Preparedness for Health Emergency Response: What Can We Do to Communicate Better in the Next Crisis
Internews;USAID (2023), 37 pp.
An Overview of Emergency Communication Networks
Remote Sensing, volume 15, issue 1595 (2023), 36 pp.
"In recent years, major natural disasters and public safety accidents have frequently occurred worldwide. In order to deal with various disasters and accidents using rapidly deployable, reliable, efficient, and stable emergency communication networks, all countries in the world are strengthening and
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Learning from the Past: The Role of Social and Behavior Change Programming in Public Health Emergencies
Global Health: Science and Practice, volume 10, issue 4: e2200026 (2022), 11 pp.
"The prevalence of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is rising at an unprecedented rate, and influencing human behavior is often the first line of defense to slow disease transmissions. We synthesize the contributions that social and behavior change research and programming has made in 6 recent EI
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Early Warning Alert and Response in Emergencies: An Operational Guide
World Health Organization (WHO) (2022), xiv, 189 pp.
Maintaining Human Rights During Health Emergencies: Brief on Standards Regarding the Right to Information
Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) (2020), iii, 24 pp.
"• General public health emergency legislation should not allocate broad discretion to public authorities to limit the right to information through subordinate legal rules but should, instead, subject this to a requirement that any restriction is either “necessity” or “strictly required by t
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Politics, Factions and Violence: Listening to Local Voices on Ebola
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2019), 13 pp.
"This brief summarises local media and messages circulating via social media outlets including WhatsApp and local radio and press outlets in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu, DRC between February and April 2019. It also captures the growing number of warning messages and written threats tran
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Communicating in a Crisis: Risk Communication Guidelines for Public Officials
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (2019), 46 pp.
"This guide focuses on the following areas: a brief orientation and perspective on the media for public officials, including discussion of how the media thinks and works, and on the public as the end-recipient of information; techniques for responding to and cooperating with the media in conveying i
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Communicating During Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"
Lanham; Boulder; New York: Lexington Books (2019), ix, 294 pp.
A Guide for the Media on Communicating in Public Health Emergencies
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 30 pp.
"This manual provides tips for media practitioners on how to help audiences during health emergencies. It can be read in conjunction with BBC Media Action’s Lifeline Production Manual (available online) which provides more general guidance on how to communicate with people affected by humanitarian
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Communicating Risk in Public Health Emergencies: A WHO Guideline for Emergency Risk Communication (ERC) Policy and Practice
World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), xi, 57 pp.
"The recommendations in these guidelines provide overarching, evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practised in an emergency. The recommendations also guide countries on building capacity for communicating risk during health emergencies. Specific step-by-step instructions are
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Using Media and Communication to Respond to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Ebola
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 30 pp.
"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action learned in delivering and supporting health communication in response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa in 2014–15. It has a particular focus on Sierra Leone as this was the hub of the organisation’s response. The paper aims to contribute t
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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication
Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), xix, 424 pp.
Making Data Talk: A Workbook
National Cancer Institute (2011), 44 pp.
"This workbook provides an overview of the main points contained in the book 'Making Data Talk: Communicating Public Health Data to the Public, Policy Makers, and the Press', as well as practical exercises for applying the book’s concepts and communication principles to your unique situation. The
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Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication
New York: Routledge (2009), xii, 683 pp.
"The handbook offers a broad approach to the study of risk and crisis as joint concerns. Chapters explore the reach of crisis and risk communication, define and examine key constructs, and parse the contexts of these vital areas. As a whole, the volume presents a comprehensive array of studies that
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Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies: A Toolkit
Kathmandu: UNICEF (2006), 238 pp.
"This toolkit is a resource for everyone working in emergency situations caused by natural disasters. It is designed to help programme managers from UNICEF, UN agencies, NGO partners and government personnel to prepare, plan, implement and monitor behaviour change communication initiatives supportin
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Effective Media Communication During Public Health Emergencies: A WHO Handbook
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2005), 124 pp.
Outbreak Communication: Best Practices for Communicating with the Public During an Outbreak. Report of the Expert Consultation on Outbreak Communications Held in Singapore, 21-23 September 2004
World Health Organization (WHO) (2005), v, 59 pp.
"The report has two parts. The first, devoted to outbreak experience, describes the special case of outbreaks and the many difficult challenges they present for communicators. It also summarizes presentations during the consultation that looked at recent outbreaks in terms of what they have to say a
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