Part 1: Public Health Communications

Opening Questions:

Opening questions engage learners in a conversation related to the topic they are about to discover without focusing on right or wrong answers. You may use these, or other open-ended questions to kick off the lesson.

1. What does the phrase “public health communication” mean to you?
2. Describe your understanding of the main components of effective public health communication to curb the incidence and spread of diseases?
3. Share how you envision communication tools for preventing diseases in the One Health context could be developed to deliver relevant messages that apply to a variety of audiences. 

Instruction

Provide learners with the article linked below (includes video content). 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/valley-fever-historically-found-only-southwest-spreading-can-devastati-rcna64313

Discussion

Engage learners in a discussion of the video. Discussion prompts may include:

1. How might public health communications have influenced the trajectory of events for Devin Buckley?
2. Describe the different modes of communication you experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic? Which were the most and least effective for you and why?
3. Describe your perspective on how disease risks related to climate change may be challenging to communicate with a broad audience.

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