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Transforming Global Health Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Partner Perspectives

BACKGROUND: With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting travel, global health programs are faced with the challenge of bidirectionally supporting students, partners, and communities in new ways. Though other global health programs have—to the best of our knowledge—temporarily frozen, we at the Nuvance He...

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Autores principales: Sadigh, Mitra, Parve, Swapnil, Nakato, Jamidah, Nsereko, Hamidah Babirye, Sadigh, Majid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8815452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35136718
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3531
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author Sadigh, Mitra
Parve, Swapnil
Nakato, Jamidah
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Sadigh, Majid
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description BACKGROUND: With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting travel, global health programs are faced with the challenge of bidirectionally supporting students, partners, and communities in new ways. Though other global health programs have—to the best of our knowledge—temporarily frozen, we at the Nuvance Health/University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Global Health Program have carried forward by transforming our communications through launching a COVID-19 Resources Page with bi-weekly article summaries, redirecting our monthly eMagazine and weekly blog to pandemic themes, and staying in constant communication with our partners around the world. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which our program’s published content shifted in sync with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as our international partners’ perception of the COVID-19 resource center, eMagazine, and blog in terms of relevance, representation, and utility. METHODS: A survey consisting of quantitative questions and open-ended response questions was allocated along the following themes: (1) eMagazine; (2) Global Health Diaries blog; (3) COVID-19 Resource Center including article summaries; and (4) communications. It was sent to 34 leaders in our partner sites across nine countries—Botswana, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Thailand, Russia, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe—and filled out by 31. FINDINGS: Survey results revealed overwhelmingly positive feedback from our global health partners who reported frequently using our COVID-19 resources, often as first-line information about the pandemic; feeling emotional support through our communications; enjoying content in our eMagazine and blog; and finding fair representation in our published content. Our global health program is more deeply connected than ever. CONCLUSIONS: Though global health programs seemingly have their hands tied, we are only beginning to imagine the breadth of new avenues for connectivity, learning, and sharing. We must all be creative about staying connected. There are avenues for global health advocacy yet to be discovered.
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spelling pubmed-88154522022-02-07 Transforming Global Health Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Partner Perspectives Sadigh, Mitra Parve, Swapnil Nakato, Jamidah Nsereko, Hamidah Babirye Sadigh, Majid Ann Glob Health Original Research BACKGROUND: With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting travel, global health programs are faced with the challenge of bidirectionally supporting students, partners, and communities in new ways. Though other global health programs have—to the best of our knowledge—temporarily frozen, we at the Nuvance Health/University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Global Health Program have carried forward by transforming our communications through launching a COVID-19 Resources Page with bi-weekly article summaries, redirecting our monthly eMagazine and weekly blog to pandemic themes, and staying in constant communication with our partners around the world. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which our program’s published content shifted in sync with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as our international partners’ perception of the COVID-19 resource center, eMagazine, and blog in terms of relevance, representation, and utility. METHODS: A survey consisting of quantitative questions and open-ended response questions was allocated along the following themes: (1) eMagazine; (2) Global Health Diaries blog; (3) COVID-19 Resource Center including article summaries; and (4) communications. It was sent to 34 leaders in our partner sites across nine countries—Botswana, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Thailand, Russia, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe—and filled out by 31. FINDINGS: Survey results revealed overwhelmingly positive feedback from our global health partners who reported frequently using our COVID-19 resources, often as first-line information about the pandemic; feeling emotional support through our communications; enjoying content in our eMagazine and blog; and finding fair representation in our published content. Our global health program is more deeply connected than ever. CONCLUSIONS: Though global health programs seemingly have their hands tied, we are only beginning to imagine the breadth of new avenues for connectivity, learning, and sharing. We must all be creative about staying connected. There are avenues for global health advocacy yet to be discovered. Ubiquity Press 2022-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8815452/ /pubmed/35136718 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3531 Text en Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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