Responsible Research and Innovation Associated With Risk Communication and Public Engagement on Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level

Valentina Possenti; Barbara De Mei; Anna Kurchatova; Manfred Green; Kåre Harald Drager; Roberta Villa; Alberto d'Onofrio; Mitra Saadatian-Elahi; Vanessa Moore; Kjersti Brattekas; Pania Karnaki; Ariel Beresniak; Mircea I. Popa; Donato Greco

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2022.827739

Responsible Research and Innovation Associated With Risk Communication and Public Engagement on Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level

Valentina Possenti, Barbara De Mei, Anna Kurchatova, Manfred Green, Kåre Harald Drager, Roberta Villa, Alberto d'Onofrio, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi, Vanessa Moore, Kjersti Brattekas, Pania Karnaki, Ariel Beresniak, Mircea I. Popa, Donato Greco

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Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) associated with public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) and response pose major challenges to the scientific community and civil society because a multistakeholder and interdisciplinary methodology is needed to foster public engagement. In 2017, within “Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics”, twenty-three initiatives in eleven cities—Athens, Brussels, Bucharest, Dublin, Geneva, Haifa, Lyon, Milan, Oslo, Rome, and Sofia—represented effective opportunities for Mobilization and Mutual Learning on RRI issues in the matter of PHEP with different community-level groups. These experiences show that to effectively address a discourse on RRI-related issues in PHEP it is necessary to engage the local population and stakeholders, which is challenging because of needed competencies and resources. Under coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we are proven that such a diversified multistakeholder engagement on RRI related to PHEP locally needs further elaboration and practical development.

Original language	English
Article number	827739
Journal	Frontiers in Communication
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.827739
State	Published - 5 Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are sincerely grateful to Arianna Dittami, Gabriella Martelli and Simone Fiaccavento (National Institute of Health - ISS, Italy) for their valuable support on administrative issues.

Funding Information:
Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics has been receiving funds by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement number 612236.

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Possenti, De Mei, Kurchatova, Green, Drager, Villa, d'Onofrio, Saadatian-Elahi, Moore, Brattekas, Karnaki, Beresniak, Popa and Greco.

Keywords

epidemic
pandemic
participatory governance
preparedness
public health emergency
response
responsible research and innovation
risk communication

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Communication
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

UN SDGs

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Possenti, V., De Mei, B., Kurchatova, A., Green, M., Drager, K. H., Villa, R., d'Onofrio, A., Saadatian-Elahi, M., Moore, V., Brattekas, K., Karnaki, P., Beresniak, A., Popa, M. I., & Greco, D. (2022). Responsible Research and Innovation Associated With Risk Communication and Public Engagement on Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level. Frontiers in Communication, 7, Article 827739. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.827739

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