Tag Archives: WHO

Social Media Abuzz with Swine Flu (H1N1)

May 5, 2009 – 11:05 am

Social media has over the past week been domianted by swine flu (H1N1) discussion. This weeks experience is the perfect example of why health/development agencies must take their messgae to where people are, and where the discussion is happening.
WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), and panicked people across the [...]

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WHO releases virus for Immunization Week

April 22, 2009 – 10:29 am

For its fourth European Immunization Week (EIW) the World Health Organization (WHO) is, for the first time, leveraging innovative Internet-based viral techniques and social media to advocate for immunization across Europe. The initiative, taking place in 36 countries from 20-26 April, is spearheaded by an animated YouTube video. launched today, that aims to spread the [...]

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WHO launches online drive for hospitals safe from disasters

April 7, 2009 – 9:17 am

Today, on World Health Day, WHO has launched a drive to make hospitals in South-East Asia safe from disasters. The email and web-based campaign, WHO’s first, aims to gather support from 1 million people. With the public’s help, WHO will call on leaders to invest in this area to prevent future, needless loss of [...]

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New social media tools for emergency response

March 12, 2009 – 9:01 am

We spent yesterday together with the student group from Media Lab, University of Helsinki, with whom we are designing new social media prototypes for WHO’s Health Action in Crisies (HAC).   We’re now organized in 3 groups, each focusing on a different layer of emergency  communication. Group 1 is looking at enabling communication through ad-hoc [...]

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