This week marks my one-year anniversary at Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway. I can say the move to Norway and to Kristiania has been utterly positive. I have the support of a forward-thinking and ambitious institution and fantastic colleagues. What I have been able to do in the last year is to spend the time to think about not
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Public health practitioners have long known that poor communication during health crises risks lives. This is why the WHO and most national public health agencies invest in risk and crisis communication. However, that does not mean it always is effective. In fact, COVID-19 has provided the opportunity to better understand what can go right and wrong in strategic communication efforts
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At this moment, I shouldn’t be writing about the chaotic politics porn from the last couple of years all wrapped up in the decisions surrounding Scottish independence, Brexit, and Trump’s election — I should be writing a book chapter on emotion and crisis, but my brain is obsessing about these three things, so I’m exorcising my writing demons. At the
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Audra Diers-Lawson 