Communication around the COVID-19 pandemic has proven a complex challenge for health professionals around the world.
Whether you are communicating with patients, the public, colleagues, or multi-sector partners, this page has exclusive resources for you.
UPDATED to include resources for researchers (see below).
Podcast: Patient communication during COVID with Dr. Beverly Zavaleta
Dr. Beverly Zavaleta talks to us from the front lines about the significant communication challenges presented by COVID, how she and her team are dealing with them, and what’s she’s learned about making words matter.
Podcast: Reflecting in writing about COVID with Dr. Ann Ancona
Podcast: Dr. Ashley Love on interprofessional communication during a health crisis
This former state epidemiologist helped guide her state through the H1N1 outbreak. Hear what she learned about interprofessional communication during a crisis.
Podcast: Infodemics, trust, and communication about COVID-19
The World Health Organization has identified an infodemic around COVID-19. when it comes to battling this infodemic, the WHO is banking on trust. Learn what trust has to do with communicating information, and what you can do to help your communication reflect trust.
Article: What are you learning from COVID? 15 reflective practice prompts
It’s not too early to learn from COVID. Here’s a way to help you make sense of your specific current situation–or notice what sense you’re already making of it.
How Freire can help with communication about COVID-19
COVID is hitting some social groups harder than others, and critical perspectives can help communication and education. Learn one important change you can make right now.
Podcast: 4 Reminders when communicating about a health threat
The coronavirus continues to make global headlines, and people are eager for information. Here are four reminders, if you are one of the many health professionals communicating with patients or the public about the coronavirus, or any health threat.
Article: How can patients’ misconceptions be helpful?
Misconceptions can add to everyone’s frustration. They can slow down progress. Here’s a way to keep misconceptions from getting in the way of a good patient/provider relationship.
Podcast: 3 Questions to help you evaluate the emotional impact of your words
There’s plenty of anxiety and frustration to go around right now. This episode focuses on the emotional impact you want your words to have when you’re communicating with a patient or client–and the words and phrases you’re using to make it happen.
Podcast: Some health literacy basics
This episode gives a quick overview of some health literacy basics you’ll want to keep in mind as you prepare to speak or write to patients or the public.
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Interview: Samantha Cinnick on challenges in team communication
During a health threat, the importance of successful team communication can’t be overstated. In this episode, Samantha Cinnick of the de Beaumont Foundation shares her experiences handling tricky team communication, in complex large-scale projects.
Podcast: What does “healthy” mean to your patient or client?
You have information that will help your patients be healthier. But what about when you have differences of opinion on what healthy means?
Free on-demand webinar: Building BRIDGES to Communicate w/Multi-Sector Partners (Pt 2)
If you have to communicate with partners outside public health, including businesses, lawmakers, and the media–this is for you.
Effective Patient Education Audiobook Bundle
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Podcast: How to ditch the deficit perspective
In this episode, you’ll learn about how common deficit perspectives are in health care, some of the damage they can do, and two things you can do help keep a deficit perspective from eroding trust in your practice.
For Researchers
- COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) This is an external, free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.
- COVID-19 Research Database (provided by the WHO)
- LitCOVID (provided by the NIH)
- COVID-19 Resource Page (provided by Microsoft Academic)
- COVID-19 Research Export File (provided by Dimensions)
- Day-Level COVID-19 Dataset (hosted on Kaggle)
- COVID-19 Global Cases (provided by Johns Hopkins University)
- Dimensions COVID-19 publications, data sets, clinical trials – updated daily
- Searchable and sortable index of COVID-19 studies
- Communication resources from the Society for Health Communication
Podcast & Infographic: 10 different ways to organize a complex idea
Communicating with patients or the public about COVID-19 means dealing with medical or scientific concepts of great complexity. When it comes to educating people, one size does not fit all.
