ERC Training

CDC's Office of Communication is offering Emergency Risk Communication Training for appropriate public health workers and communicators both inside and outside the government.

Goals

• To disseminate training curricula and tools that will help public health communication professionals effectively prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
• To introduce public health officials, both inside and outside CDC, to the crisis and emergency risk training curricula and tools developed by the CDC Office of Communication.
• To train communicators, both inside and outside CDC, to subsequently train public health professionals in how to systematically plan, develop, implement, and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication activities.

Scheduling

For scheduling information, contact Chad Wood (CRWood@cdc.gov) for the CERC course or Judith Courtney (JECourtney@cdc.gov) for the CDCynergy and Face the Media courses.

Certified Trainers

The table below contains the names and email addresses of those people who have become certified to teach CDCynergy: Emergency Risk Communication and have expressed a desire to train others how to utilize this innovative tool to develop a crisis communication plan.