2011 CERC Webinars
Recent CERC Webinars
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Basic Principles
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011
Overview: This archived Webinar describes the basic principles of Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication.
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Communication and Public Information in Radiation Disasters
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011
Overview: This archived webinar takes you through the key elements of communicating during a radiation disaster. Leeanna Allen of the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) shares CDC research on messaging during a radiation disaster and lessons learned from Japan’s ongoing nuclear emergency.
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Leveraging Social Media for Disaster Preparedness
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Overview: This presentation identifies the major areas where social media is being used in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery and discusses the ways that social media can be leveraged to enhance situational awareness, strengthens operational aspects of response, supports recovery efforts, and builds community resilience.
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Expanding Capacity and Capability: Inclusion of Participatory Culture, Technology and Open Data in Crisis Management
Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Overview: With shrinking resources, innovation becomes imperative. Partnerships, which are essential to improving emergency preparedness planning, response and recovery efforts, provide one avenue of potential innovation. The prospect of utilizing participatory culture, technology and open data in this field will be presented by Heather Blanchard, Co-Founder of CrisisCommons, a community that connects people and organizations who use open data and technology to innovate crisis management and global development.
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Using HealthMap's Web-based risk analysis tools before and during public health emergencies
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Overview: This webinar will use HealthMap's experience during the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti to examine emerging data sources for epidemic surveillance, the use of social media and other new media and how all this fits together in regard to emergency preparedness and response. Dr. Scales contends that we are a network of networks reaching out into our respective communities while sharing experience and lessons learned in expert forums. HealthMap's experience suggests that if we can leverage bilateral information flows between our respective networks, our information and communication efforts will benefit, especially in emergency preparedness and response.
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- Page last reviewed April 26, 2013
- Page last updated December 9, 2011
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
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