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Preparedness and response

Risk communication

Clear and effective information and communication with the public and the Member States is essential to respond to emerging serious cross-border health threats. The Commission seeks to improve communication by developing common strategies, by better integrating communicators into the crisis management process and by strengthening their cooperation with decision makers and risk managers.

Health security committee communicators' network

The Health Security Committee (HSC) has established a communicators' network that brings together communicators from national risk management authorities, the Commission and  EU agencies. The network is a platform for exchange of information at the early stages of an event and coordinate common strategies and messages to the public. Its mandate also covers the exchange of experience and best practice on health risks and crisis communication and recommendations to prevent diseases caused by these threats.

Connecting with existing communicators' networks under the Global Health Security Initiative and the WHO network under the International Health Regulations, for example, allows for rapid exchange of information worldwide and is an important channel to contain and mitigate global health threats.