| Title: |
Deliverable D5.1 - Scenarios Analysis and Pandemic Communications Requirements Statement |
| Authors: |
Overmeyer, Maike; Sendrowski, Philip; Römer, Silke; Hayes, Jessica; Rahill, Stephanie; Daly, Laura; Sorohan, Sharon; Kaluza, Benjamin |
| Contributors: |
Larsson Sandén, Charlotte; Stein, Mart; Beishuizen, Berend; Peelen, Anne-Romy; Appelberg, Fanni; Houareau, Claudia; Tostmann, Alma; Geel, Maartje van; Popovici, Odette; Hopman, Joost; Palacio, Camilo; Valentini, Adriano; Mexia, Ricardo |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft |
| Subject Terms: |
COVID-19; pandemic; crisis communication; SARS; DDC::600 Technik; Medizin; angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten |
| Description: |
While pandemics have ravaged human populations throughout history, the scale of the recent COVID 19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge and has demonstrated the critical role of communication in pandemic management, particular in modern democracies. Communication between pandemic managers (including public health agencies, first responders, government officials) and the public (particularly communities at risk in a pandemic) is a crucial component of a pandemic response. Though guidance and research on risk communications and crisis communications is available from multiple sources, the lack of a structured overview specifically on pandemics led to a shortage of practical tools and resources that pandemic managers could utilise, and considerable demands to develop new material for the COVID-19 response. PANDEM-2 Work Package 5 (WP5) is addressing these shortcomings in pandemic communication by setting the scene in a state-of-the-art analysis (Task 5.1, this deliverable), developing new resources and templates (Task 5.2), exploring innovations (Task 5.3) and testing developments in media training (Task 5.4). This deliverable covers a wide range of relevant topics and information sources which impact pandemic communications, to set a foundation for the future work in the Work Package (WP). In a desk-based literature research, the scientific literature, reports and communication guidelines were screened for essential findings and recommendations, to be made available in a reference literature repository. Furthermore, the analysis expanded to related projects (e.g. in the EU H2020 framework), lessons and materials for crisis communication in different domains (e.g. civil aviation disasters) and experiences with practical support tools (e.g. warning and contact tracing apps) in order to identify the transferability of lessons learnt. Building on the PANDEM phase 1 project, priority areas from previous pandemics were assessed by investigating historic pandemic scenarios (Influenza, SARS (Severe Acute ... |
| Document Type: |
report |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Pandemic Preparedness and Response; 883285; https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/465887 |
| DOI: |
10.24406/publica-2914 |
| Availability: |
https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/465887; https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-2914 |
| Rights: |
CC BY 4.0 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.1D1D59E3 |
| Database: |
BASE |