Harnessing the health communication power of early childhood sector

This project will capitalise on learning derived from the experience of the early childhood education (ECE) sector during the COVID-19 crisis, to develop a Best Practice Model of health communication to be used whenever population-level health information needs to be communicated rapidly, accurately and effectively to families of young children and their educators.Dr Mary Dahm at ANU will lead the health documentation any for the project. Her team will analyse multimodal health communication data and records including pandemic/ disaster policy and communication guidelines produced by health and ECE peak organisations.This project is led by investigators at Macquarie University and ANU.