OpenWHO

"Users take part in a worldwide, social learning network...OpenWHO also serves as a forum for the fast sharing of public health expertise and in-depth discussion and feedback on key issues."

Managed by the World Health Organization (WHO)' Department for Infectious Hazards Management, this interactive, web-based platform offers free online courses to people preparing to work in epidemics, pandemics, and health emergencies or already doing so. The OpenWHO platform, which was launched in 2017, is designed to deliver WHO's and partners' expertise closer to where it is needed and to provide information in user-friendly formats for frontline responders and decision-makers.

Examples of current and upcoming self-paced course titles include: Communication Essentials for Member States, Pandemic Risk Communication, and Risk communication Essentials. Part of the course description for the latter reads: "Whether you work for the government, the United Nations, an international organization or an NGO [non-governmental organisation], or you are a volunteer, we hope that this course will help you refresh what you already know and help you transform good principles of risk communication into action. We hope that you will be encouraged to look at resources that are attached to each module to dwell further into this topic, to find tools and resources that will help you in your work."