Course Description
This presentation will explore communication and evidence-based design research, theory, and practice applicable to COVID and other pandemics. We examine how frameworks of hazard control and risk perception can address pandemic responses in the design of healthcare systems. We describe how the pandemic has affected typical health facility design, the use of communication technology in this new context and how communication and evidence-based design (EBD) alter in times of crisis. Communication is essential to develop proper messages that reach target audiences. Evidence-based design is a necessary approach for understanding how to mitigate infection transmission through design.
These four NIHD member presenters authored a chapter titled Communication and COVID-19: Challenges in Evidence-based Healthcare Design in the recently published book Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: The COVID‐19 Pandemic. The chapter (Part Two, Chapter 4) can be purchased here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119751809.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore communication and evidence-based design research, theory, and practice applicable to COVID and other pandemics.
- Examine how frameworks of hazard control and risk perception can address pandemic responses in the design of healthcare systems.
- Describe how the pandemic has affected typical health facility design, the use of communication technology in this new context and how communication and evidence-based design (EBD) alter in times of crisis.
- Describe how to mitigate infection transmission through an evidence-based design approach.
Presenters:
- Terri Zborowsky, PhD, RN, EDAC, CPXP, Design Researcher, HGA
- Debbie Gregory DNP, RN, Sr Clinical Consultant, SSR
- Kevin Real PhD, Professor, University of Kentucky
- Kirk Hamilton PhD, FAIA, FACHA, FCCM, EDAC, Professor, Texas A&M University
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