Topic outline
- General
- Background
Background
Overview: Risk communication, including community engagement and social mobilization, is a core capacity for emergency response that all countries should have in order to respond to heath threats. It is an essential component of an effective response to a health threat such as pandemic and seasonal influenza.
Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.
Certificates: No certificate available at this time.
- Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Learning objective: By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- list the core ideas and principles for emergency risk communication for an influenza event;
- explain why facts are not enough to communicate risk; and
- describe steps to take to prepare for risk communication.
- Course contents
Course contents
Risk communication for influenza events (EN):
This introductory presentation is adjusted in particular for influenza events. The principles apply to any outbreak and health emergency context.Communication sur les risques lors des événements grippaux (FR):
Version françaiseComunicación de riesgos ante incidentes de gripe (ES):
Versión española
- Where to find these materials?
Where to find these materials?
You can take this e-learning on the WHO platform, OpenWHO, following this link
Note, if you don't have a WHO account you may need to create a new one. Alternatively you may take the course as guest without getting a certificate