My Public Health Consulting/Contracting Work Includes:
- Task and Technical Lead on National & International Public Health Projects Related to epidemic response:
- Public Health Response Interventions: From Stage 1(Research) to Planning, Implementation, Evaluation and Feedback.
- Rapid Assessment & Action
- Cross-Agency Collaboration
- Crisis Communication
- Resource Allocation and Logistics
- Epidemiological Intelligence Reports:
- Data Analysis and Synthesis
- Report Writing & Recommendations
- Health Risk Assessments
- Situational Updates & Alerts
- Scientific Comms:
- Real-time Situation Reports
- Development of Public Health Messaging
- Target Audience Intel Reports
- Stakeholder Communication
- Health Risk Communication
- Plain language Summaries for Media
- Internal Communication & Knowledge Sharing
- Monitoring Public Perception
- Epidemiological Data Visualization
- Advisory Documents
- Lessons Learned & After Action Reviews
For Health Communication, Most of the Battle is Making Science Understandable.
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is the importance of how science is communicated. Effective health communication is critical, whether it be for building trust, motivating a target audience to make specific health choices, education and risk management, or gaining more exposure, interest and funding for research studies.
Health communication should always be data-driven, with high emphasis placed on maintaining accuracy while still ensuring that you resonate with the target population. If something is uncertain, that uncertainty should be communicated in a way that does not stoke anxiety, or down the road, anger and distrust.
In the field of health communications, tons of people are great at preaching to the choir. In other words, they’re great at something that is easy, which is connecting to people who already think like them. There is no art in that. The art of health communication is connecting with the “other choirs” who don’t think like you.
Speaking of SciComms…Check Out My Causes or Cures Podcast here!
Check Out my Health Communication Blogs:
The Ridiculous Panic Over Misinformation
Truth-Seeking: A Caveat to Be Aware Of
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If you are interested in exploring working together, please message Dr. Eeks (Erin) at erin@bloomingwellness.com.
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