Project Highlight: Public Communication
Emerging Diseases: Crisis Communication in Public Health
Client: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Increasingly, the public health community has paired with emergency response professionals to confront crises created by emerging infectious diseases. Crises involving public health have become more widespread and severe and, as in the case of the threat of bioterrorism, increasingly more real.
As the agency responsible for communicating the threat of emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism, the CDC sponsored a meeting of researchers in academic and government organizations to discuss future crisis communication research priorities related to public health. ORISE organized and facilitated the meeting, conducted focus groups, and developed conference proceedings for this effort.
