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Franklin Apfel
Publications - 7
Citations - 386
Franklin Apfel is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Preparedness. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 7 publications receiving 210 citations.
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Vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in Europe: A qualitative study.
Emilie Karafillakis,Irina Dinca,Franklin Apfel,Sabrina Cecconi,Andrea Wűrz,Judit Takács,Jonathan E. Suk,Lucia Pastore Celentano,Piotr Kramarz,Heidi J. Larson,Heidi J. Larson +10 more
TL;DR: The results revealed that vaccine hesitancy is present in all four countries among vaccine providers and the most important concern across all countries was the fear of vaccine side effects.
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Risk communication as a core public health competence in infectious disease management: Development of the ECDC training curriculum and programme.
Petra Dickmann,Thomas Abraham,Satyajit Sarkar,Piotr Wysocki,Sabrina Cecconi,Franklin Apfel,Ülla-Karin Nurm +6 more
TL;DR: The new conceptual approach to risk communication capacity building that emerged from this process is introduced, the pilot training approach developed, and the results of the course evaluation are shared.
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Making sense of communication interventions in public health emergencies – an evaluation framework for risk communication
TL;DR: A new evaluation framework for risk communication measures the relation between a baseline dynamic of epidemic and communication activities and the changed dynamic resulting from risk communication activities (e.g. earlier detection, faster response, smoother coordination and smarter legacy).
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Kampala manifesto: Building community-based One Health approaches to disease surveillance and response-The Ebola Legacy-Lessons from a peer-led capacity-building initiative.
TL;DR: It is concluded that strategies to respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa should aim at empowering, not just engaging, communities, and that strategies should put local people at the centre of all preparedness, response, and recovery strategies.