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PRI and CUNY SPH Partner to Share Flu, COVID-19, RSV & Norovirus Resources You Can Share
The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and the NYC Preparedness & Recovery Institute (PRI) are asking for your help to get life-saving, science-based information out to our communities. Flu cases in NYC have dropped over the…
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Students Reimagine Public Health Communication Though Summer Projects with PRI
The New York City Preparedness & Recovery Institute (PRI) is proud to announce the winner and runners-up of Student Summer Projects Exploring Creative Approaches to Public Health Preparedness and Response Messaging, a summer program designed to support students exploring creative…
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Quality Health Communication Is Critical to Optimal Adult Immunization
In an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine, CUNY SPH Distinguished Lecturer & PRI Communications Faculty Co-Lead Scott Ratzan and colleagues call for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to “raise its persuasive communications game” on adult immunization to clinicians…
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Seeking Your Submissions for a Special PRI Curated Journal on Health Communications Issue: Climate Communication Challenges
The relevance of climate change on human health is largely underappreciated across many groups. Communicating the health consequences of climate change can help individuals and communities better prepare, cope and adapt to climate-driven health threats. The multifaceted spatiotemporal scale of…
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What Were the Information Voids? Analyzing 3086 Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers
Dear Pandemic is a web and social platform created in March 2020 after the founders, public health researchers, became inundated with queries about COVID-19 from family and friends. Looking back at their experience, Dear Pandemic (now Those Nerdy Girls) team members…
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Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic: Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified excessive COVID-19-related information as a public health crisis, calling it an “infodemic.” The infodemic has been exacerbated by uncertainties inherent in an emerging infectious disease and the scientific process more generally. Together with…
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PRI Curates a Special Journal on Health Communications Issue and Seeks Your Submissions
Announcing “Leaving No One Behind: Opportunities for improving future pandemic-related communication.” A special issue of the Journal of Health Communication that will be curated by the PRI Communication Team, and led by Christopher Palmedo, PhD, MBA. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed…
