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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Course (CERC)

Overview of Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication

The CERC training program draws from lessons learned during public health emergencies, and incorporates best practices from the fields of risk and crisis communication. With this comprehensive training program, the CDC has moved forward in meeting the needs of partners and stakeholders in preparing for, responding to and recovering from the threat of bioterrorism, emergent diseases, and other hazards

Crisis and emergency risk communication is an approach used by scientists and public health professionals to provide information that allows an individual, stakeholders or an entire community, to make the best possible decisions about their well-being, under nearly impossible time constraints, while accepting the imperfect nature of their choices.

Goals

  • Disseminate training curricula and tools that will help public health communication professionals effectively prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
  • Introduce crisis and emergency risk training curricula and tools developed by the CDC Office of Enterprise Communication to public health officials, both inside and outside CDC.
  • Train communicators, both inside and outside CDC, to subsequently train public health professionals in how to systematically plan, develop, implement, and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication activities.

 

  • Page last updated December 9, 2011
  • Content source: Office of Enterprise Communication (OEC)
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