Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Sandman: A Tale Of Two CDCs

 

 

# 7203

 

 

Regular readers (and anyone familiar with the world of risk communication issues) already know of Dr. Peter Sandman, and his wife and colleague Dr. Jody Lanard, who together run The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communication Website.

 

Peter Sandman Website logo

 

Over the years they’ve provided many corporations, agencies, and governments invaluable assistance on handling media relations during a crisis. I’ve highlighted Peter and Jody’s work often in the past, including:

 

Peter Sandman On the CCIVI Vaccine Report
Peter Sandman: Swine Flu For Grownups
Experts: `Mild’ Is A Misleading Term For This Pandemic
Peter Sandman On Pandemic Risk Communication

Today they have a lengthy analysis on the messaging and communication strategies being employed by China’s CDC and our own CDC on the emerging H7N9 virus that builds upon an earlier post I linked to on Saturday (see Lanard: China’s Risk Communication On H7N9).

 

The post (wherein Peter very kindly mentions this blog), is called:

 

Posted: April 8, 2013


H7N9: A Tale of Two CDCs

 


This post, along with the rest of their website, is a treasure trove of great advice and information of interest to anyone who is, or may someday become, a spokesperson during a crisis.


Highly recommended.