The TELL ME project was created in response to European Commission Call (DG Research and Innovation ‐ HEALTH), for developing an evidence‐based behavioural and communication package to respond to major epidemic outbreaks.
The TELL ME project kick off meeting was held in Rome on March 1st and 2nd 2012. The project website is www.tellmeproject.eu
TELL ME project will establish an integrated research project involving experts in social and behavioural sciences, communication and media, health professionals at various levels and specialties and representatives of civil society organisations to develop an evidence-based behavioural and communication package to respond to major epidemic outbreaks, notably flu pandemics. The main outcomes of TELL ME will be an Integrated Communication Kit for Outbreak Communication and simulation software to assess alternative communication strategies.
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What's new in the TELL ME project
TellMe WP1 Validation workshop
The first TELL ME validation meeting will take place in Rome on November 9th. The overall scope of this meeting will be to validate findings from work carried out in the context of WP1 concerning "population behaviour during epidemics"... [Read more]
FLU from A to Z guide has been lanced on the website
TELL ME website has been updated with a guide to the key-words related to the influenza pandemic and its management: "FLU from A to Z"... [Read more]
TELL ME External Advisory Board
An External Advisory Board (EAB) has been established. The External Advisory Board is expected to play an important role in this project, contributing in a number of ways. Issues related to population behaviour... [Read more]
Latest news
European preparedness to seasonal flu
As every year, a new flu season is going to start, and health care professionals and institutions all over the world are preparing themselves to face this annual recurrent epidemic. [Read more]
SARS false alarm in the UK
The alarm raised quickly as the news of a Danish family hospitalized in the UK because of SARS infection spreads all over the web. Two of these people had recently been to the Middle East, like the two cases of SARS-like virus recently identified – one of... [Read more]
Risk communication and social media: two sides of the same coin
Everything started at the beginning of September in San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, when Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, took the floor... [Read more]
A new coronavirus found in UK
An infection by a coronavirus belonging to the same family of that responsible for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been reported in the United Kingdom. A 49 years old man from Qatari with a travel history to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... [Read more]
US schools unprepared for another pandemic
The American Journal of Infection Control published a study that revealed the insufficient level of pandemic preparedness in U.S. schools. The authors of the study - a team of researchers from Saint Louis University - collected and analyzed survey responses from... [Read more]
Multimedia gallery
Video interviews during the TELL ME kick off meeting (Rome, March 1-2nd 2012)
