Join us for a Summer Professional Development Program at The American University of Rome from July 7-18, 2025 in Rome, Italy

Registration and information: 

https://aur.edu/health-risk-communication-interpandemic-world 

Registration deadline: May 1, 2025 

Event Platform: In-person 

Event type: Professional Development Event 

Venue/Organized by: The American University of Rome 

Address: Via Pietro Roselli 4, 00153 Rome, IT 

Contact Number: 06 58 33 0941 

Contact Person: Prof. Renata Schiavo 

Email address:  r.schiavo@aur.edu 

Web address: https://aur.edu/health-risk-communication-interpandemic-world 

Description: 

This 10-day summer institute and professional development course focuses on lessons learned, future directions, and advanced conversations on health and risk communication related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other ongoing and past epidemics and emerging disease outbreaks in different regions worldwide. The course is grounded in the theory and practice of Social and Behavior Change (SBC), Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC), Health Equity, and Human Rights. It will provide participants with practical skills, strategies, and resources on a participatory, multisectoral, integrated, and community-driven approach to communication that aims to achieve social, behavioral, and policy results in pandemic and interpandemic settings (including the preparedness, response, and recovery phases). 

Audience: Professionals and leaders from multiple sectors and disciplines, including public health, global health, healthcare, medicine, communication, international development, human rights, and community development.