Publications
Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: mass gatherings
This toolkit contains a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement...
Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: ebola disease
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement...
Impact of the COVID-19 infodemic on frontline workers and health systems: analysis of story-telling approach...
This report outlines an analysis of 68 collected interviews telling stories of experience of the COVID-19 infodemic by infodemic managers to draw out learning...
Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: zika virus
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE)...
Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: dengue fever
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE)...
The risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) competency framework is a resource that details the essential behaviours and activities necessary...
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE)...
Community conversation kit: everyday conversations to protect community health against infectious disease
This Community Conversation Kit (CCK) is designed to help people who have a leadership role speak with people in their community about how to protect themselves...
Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response toolkit: yellow fever
This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE)...
Throughout 2022–2023, WHO provided guidance and support to communities newly affected by mpox, including gay men, bisexual men and other men who...
WHO policy brief: Building trust through risk communication and community engagement, 14 September 2022
Key points Credible, trusted, relevant, timely, accessible and actionable heath information is crucial for the acceptance and adoption of life-saving...
Risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) for mpox outbreaks: Interim guidance, 24 June 2022
The Interim Guidance for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) outlines recommendations, considerations and methods to raise awareness, manage...
10 steps to community readiness: What countries should do to prepare communities for a COVID-19 vaccine,...
This document highlights 10 well established Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) principles that have proven their power. Together they...
COVID-19 Global Risk Communication and Community Engagement Strategy – interim guidance
There is an unprecedented need to elevate the role risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) plays in breaking the chains of transmission and...

When someone who has COVID-19 coughs or exhales they release droplets of infected fluid. Most of these droplets fall on nearby surfaces and objects, such...

Risk communication and community engagement readiness and response to coronavirus disease (COVID-19):...
This document provides WHO checklists for risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) readiness and initial response for novel coronaviruses (nCoV)...

WHO and public health authorities around the world are acting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. However, this time of crisis is generating stress throughout...

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Action Plan Guidance COVID-19 Preparedness and Response
This tool is designed to support risk communication, community engagement staff and responders working with national health authorities, and other partners...

Social stigma associated with COVID-19
This guide for preventing and addressing social stigma associated with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is intended to support governments, media...
Risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) readiness and response to the 2019 novel coronaviruses...
This document provides checklists developed by WHO for risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) readiness and initial responses to the 2019 novel...
Meeting reports

Public health advice on understanding, preventing and addressing stigma and discrimination related to...
Stigma and discrimination connected to any disease, including mpox, are never acceptable. They can seriously affect health outcomes and undermine the outbreak...

Public health advice on mpox for people living in camps, refugee populations, internally displaced people...
Mpox can spread through close physical contact, so places where people live or stay in close proximity – known as congregate settings – may...
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Public health advice for sex workers on mpox
This document includes public health advice for sex workers on protecting themselves, their clients and others in close contact against mpox. It is intended...

Public health advice on mpox and congregate settings: settings in which people live, stay or work in...
Because the mpox (monkeypox) virus spreads through close contact, places where people live in proximity to others may be at higher risk of mpox if the...

Public health advice for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men on the recent outbreak of...
Outbreaks of mpox in newly affected countries have mostly been identified in communities of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men who have...

This document contains public health advice for sex-on-premises venues and events to control the spread of mpox (monkeypox), while enabling venues to...

Social stigma in the context of health is the negative association between a person or group of people who share certain characteristics and a specific...