{"id":213145,"date":"2025-04-02T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=213145"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:55:10","slug":"public-health-emergency-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/public-health-emergency-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> joins effort to strengthen public health emergency preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/system-gnc-public-health-preparedness.jpg\" alt=\"healthcare related icon wood blocks\" width=\"673\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-213155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/system-gnc-public-health-preparedness.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/system-gnc-public-health-preparedness-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/system-gnc-public-health-preparedness-130x74.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/thompson\/\">Thompson School of Social Work &#38; Public Health<\/a> is taking a key leadership role in a regional collaboration to strengthen public health emergency preparedness. As part of a five-year initiative, the university will focus on health risk communication, a crucial component of effective emergency response. This effort is supported by a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu\/ucsf-receives-cdc-grant-as-one-of-10-national-regional-centers-for-public-health-preparedness-and-response\/\">$1 million first-year allocation<\/a> from the <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<abbr>CDC<\/abbr>) as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu\/about-us\/our-centers\/center-for-global-strategic-information-and-public-health-practice\/pacific-southwest-center-for-emergency-public-health\/\">Region <abbr title=\"roman numeral nine\">IX<\/abbr> Pacific Southwest Center for Emergency Public Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Health communication is vital for strong public health in our communities and around the world in blue skies and in moments of crisis.<br \/>&#8212;Tetine Sentell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Health communication is vital for strong public health in our communities and around the world in blue skies and in moments of crisis,&rdquo; said Tetine Sentell, a faculty member in the Department of Public Health Sciences and principal investigator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiphworkforce.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Public Health Workforce Catalyst Lab<\/a>. &ldquo;We look forward to working with our collaborators at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Department of Health on this important project for our state and our region.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The center, which works with health departments across California, Arizona, Nevada, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and <abbr>U.S.<\/abbr>-affiliated Pacific territories, aims to improve strategies for responding to public health threats. Leading the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> effort, Sentell is joined by collaborators Alex Ortega, dean of the Thompson School of Social Work &#38; Public Health; Theresa Kreif, faculty in the Department of Social Work; and Yuka Polovina, faculty in the Department of Public Health Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The center is one of ten nationwide funded by the <abbr>CDC<\/abbr>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/orr\/budget-funding\/cdc-awards-ten-regional-centers-for-phpr-funding.html\">Office of Readiness and Response<\/a>, focusing on evidence-based strategies for public health emergency preparedness. Its work centers around three key areas:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-public-health-risk-comms-graphic-214x300.png\" alt=\"health risk communication graphic\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-213158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-public-health-risk-comms-graphic-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-public-health-risk-comms-graphic-93x130.png 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/manoa-public-health-risk-comms-graphic.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capacity Building\u2014Strengthening the region\u2019s public health workforce to address both immediate and long-term emergency needs.<\/li>\n<li>Coordination and Communication\u2014Sharing best practices around extreme weather related emergencies to strengthen emergency planning and response. <\/li>\n<li>Risk Communication\u2014Enhancing trust in public health by improving how information is shared, equipping officials to counter misinformation, and working with community leaders to provide accurate guidance. <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s first-year project will focus on this critical area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The center is led by the University of California San Francisco, with each participating location focusing on a specific topic.<\/p>\n<p>Sentell, an internationally recognized expert in health literacy, serves on the World Health Organization\u2019s (<abbr>WHO<\/abbr>) technical advisory group on health literacy, contributing to the development of a <abbr>WHO<\/abbr> Global Engagement Strategy on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>As National Public Health Week approaches (April 7&#8211;13), this partnership highlights the importance of effective communication and preparedness in safeguarding communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is leading a key project in a regional effort to strengthen public health emergency preparedness, focusing on health risk communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93,1409,1363,241,449,1600,244,596,9],"class_list":["post-213145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-climate-change","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-manoa-research","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-public-impact-research","tag-social-work","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213161,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213145\/revisions\/213161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}