Pandemic Playbook Posts

The Pandemic Playbook is currently under construction. New content, format and organization will continue to be created and refined.

Loud and Clear: Combatting Biases in Communicating Risk

As many parts of the world are in stages of reopening, there are varying attitudes concerning individual and societal risk. The issue of...

Navigating Ambiguity: Maintaining Trust Despite Changing Guidelines

As much relating to the coronavirus is still unknown, there has been changing information as related to safety guidelines, modes of...

Behind the Curve: Understanding and Preparing for Exponential Growth

Following the growth of the pandemic is absolutely essential for those charged with the task of planning for the future of their...

Sustenance of Hand and Respiratory Hygiene Behaviors

It is not just COVID19, but respiratory infections like tuberculosis have long been the leading cause of illness, morbidity, and...

The Unending Cycle of Stigma and its role in a Patient's Journey

Stigmatization hinders health-seeking behavior, foments fear in patients suffering from the condition, causes prejudices against certain...

Fatigue and coping with lockdown

Lockdown and Distancing Importance of physical distancing in a pandemic cannot be stressed enough, yet the act itself is very much...