AUTHOR=Possenti Valentina , De Mei Barbara , Kurchatova Anna , Green Manfred , Drager Kåre Harald , Villa Roberta , d'Onofrio Alberto , Saadatian-Elahi Mitra , Moore Vanessa , Brattekas Kjersti , Karnaki Pania , Beresniak Ariel , Popa Mircea I. , Greco Donato 

TITLE=Responsible Research and Innovation Associated With Risk Communication and Public Engagement on Health Emergency Preparedness at the Local Level

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.827739

DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2022.827739

ISSN=2297-900X

ABSTRACT=Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) associated to public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) and response pose major challenges to scientific community and civil society, because a multistakeholder and interdisciplinary methodology is needed to foster public engagement. In 2017, within “Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics”, twenty-three initiatives in eleven cities – Athens, Brussels, Bucharest, Dublin, Geneva, Haifa, Lyon, Milan, Oslo, Rome, Sofia – represented effective opportunities for Mobilisation and Mutual Learning on RRI issues in matter of PHEP with different community-level groups. These experiences show that to effectively address a discourse on RRI-related issues in PHEP it is necessary to engage local population and stakeholders, which is challenging because of needed competences and resources. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, we are proven that such a diversified multistakeholder engagement on RRI related to PHEP locally needs further elaboration and practical development.