Africa-Press – Liberia. By: Emmanuel Wise Jipoh
The Ministry of Health (MoH), through its Communication and Health Promotion Unit, has concluded a three-day intensive media capacity-building training with Liberian journalists.
Over 40 Liberian journalists, including New Dawn reporter Emmanuel Wise Jipoh, were specially trained in health reporting, health emergency management, public health emergencies, risk management, and insights into the health security project.
Participants, drawn from various radio stations, print media, and communication units, were also briefed on the importance of the One Health Platform.
Amadu Bah, Deputy Director for Communications and Health Promotion at the Ministry of Health, highlighted the importance of health reporting coverage and the need for health reporting management as part of efforts to contain public health threats, outbreaks, and emergencies.
Bah stressed four critical pillars of the Liberia Health Security Project: strengthening early disease detection systems, improving prevention mechanisms at both the community and national levels, enhancing rapid response capacity during outbreaks, and deepening cross-border and regional public health cooperation.
Also speaking was Mac Nagbe Nelson, Pillar Lead – Risk Communication, National Mpox Response, who lectured on the introduction of risk communication, community engagement, and health promotion.
He explained that Health Promotion, in depth, has five subcomponents: Demand Generation, Material Design, Health Education and Research, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), and Counties Coordination.
Nelson, the Health Promotion filter on key standouts, mentions social behavior change & healthy lifestyle, which demands prevention, detection, treatment, and recovery.
The project is designed to strengthen the country’s community preparedness, or ability to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats, as well as build a system that will monitor outbreaks of diseases and also identify unusual illnesses.
Meanwhile, the three-day intensive media training, held at the Teepro Lodge, Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, aimed
at strengthening the country’s capacity to prevent, detect, and respond rapidly to infectious disease threats with epidemic potential.
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