RISK COMMUNICATION TRAINING UNDER USAID TRANCHE-4 EMERGENCY COVID-19 RESPONSE FUNDING

100 participants from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar

SEAOHUN in partnership with the OHW-NG Global Consortium seized the opportunity to provide online training in risk communication for the newly joined country networks and their respective faculty members and health professionals We organized a series of eight virtual risk communication training sessions between October to December 2020 for one hundred faculty members and health professionals from Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. Seventy participants completed at least six sessions and received a certificate

Read the feature story about the risk communication training here: https://www.seaohun.org/risk-communication

" This training helped me a lot to learn both the training topics, and the teaching methods, especially by virtual tools. I am sure that this will be very useful for my teaching practice I think these kinds of training are necessary for all One Health stakeholders."

Mr. Si Thu Hein, Risk Communication Participant from Myanmar

The Philippine One Health University Network (PhilOHUN) utilized the COVID-19 Tranche-4 funding to design the Webinar Series

“Ensuring quality of public health communication, diagnostics, and infection prevention and control on humans and animals in response to COVID-19.” The online seminars emphasized a One Health approach to understanding the disease’s origin, spread, impact, and management.

Held every two weeks from September through December 2020, its goal was to inform the participants about the science behind the spread and management of the disease, to equip them with knowledge of how people and animals are at risk, and to examine how university-level education and government’s policies and decision making could preserve and nurture affected life forms in the event of a (“future” or “in response to the current”) pandemic.

Read more about PhilOHUN’s Webinar Series here: https://www.seaohun.org/philohun

Other Activities

SEAOHUN represented the university networks at regional and global forums such as GHSA Ministerial Meeting, ASEAN+3 FETN Steering Committee Meeting, Lancet Commission webinar “Education and Capacity Building in One Health: Lessons from the Field”, and Webinar by Regional Tripartite plus UNEP during the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.

Additionally, OHW-NG Year 1 Showcase was organized virtually in October 2020 to highlight collective achievements of the regional and country networks in Southeast Asia and increase project visibility. The showcase was attended by over one hundred thirty participants from fourteen countries