Guidance on the release of information concerning deaths, epidemics or emerging diseases
Recommendations developed by public health officials, health care journalists and public health information officers, co-sponsored by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the National Association of County and City Health Officials and the Association of Health Care Journalists in October 2010.
Guides to Reporting
AHCJ Medical Studies Core Topic Leader Tara Halle provides a comprehensive guide for how to report on medical controversies including the issue of false balance involving vaccine controversies.
Outbreak Information Resources
This handout was compiled for a panel on pandemic preparedness at Health Journalism 2018 and includes online sources to monitor outbreaks as well as assessments of preparedness and more.
Journalist’s Resource
Good primers on health care issues funded by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Including: on Lyme disease and climate change. Vaccines and whooping cough. Vaccines, parents and pediatricians. Antibiotic resistance and economic costs.
The Poynter Institute’s Covering Infectious Disease
The journalism organization compiled suggestions several years ago about how to cover the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa but it is a useful way to think about an approach to covering infectious diseases.
The Science and Development Network
Good primers on how to communicate to wider audiences about infectious disease outbreaks, as well as some of the latest reports on global health outbreaks. Here is one on Figuring out the Figures When Reporting on Risk and another on Communicating Statistics and Risks.