Trainer
Margo Edmunds, PhD, adjunct associate professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Description
Risk communication is an exchange of information about the likelihood and consequences of adverse events. In an emergency, effective risk communication is vital because it helps the public respond to the crisis, reduces the likelihood of rumors and misinformation and demonstrates good leadership. This training product will help you be more effective as a communicator and member of a crisis response team. After reviewing basic ideas about risk communication, you will learn to develop crisis communication plans and deliver public health messages by working with the media. Trainer Biography
Margo Edmunds, PhD, is an adjunct associate professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she has taught policy analysis and health communications since 1999. A faculty member with the Center for Public Health Preparedness, she trains public health professionals in all-hazards crisis response and evaluated communications during Harbor B.A.S.E., a regional bioterrorism field exercise conducted in July 2003. Currently, Dr. Edmunds is principal strategist in the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research, where she oversees projects in health communications and biodefense. Previously, she held senior positions at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California-San Francisco and the Children’s Defense Fund. Dr. Edmunds holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in human development from the Pennsylvania State University and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Training Consultant
Charles Fulwood served as a consultant in developing this course. Mr. Fulwood is a partner at MediaVision, a strategic communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was communications director for the Natural Resources Defense Council and Amnesty International. Mr. Fulwood has more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, crisis management and media campaigns. |
