Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses

Stakeholder acceptance

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Stakeholder acceptance

Research Question

New ways to engage with stakeholders (public and policy decision-makers) to improve social acceptance of control strategies

Identifying relevant key stakeholders and finding ways to engage effectively to communicate the benefits of introducing control measures
Influencing decision-makers by successfully communicating the future savings (in financial terms) made from the implementation of control measures in the present

Mapping stakeholders and amplifiers in peace time, including social media usage
Experiences of recently declared global emergencies should be considered (e.g. M-pox)
Social studies to meliorate communication campaign
Increasing stakeholder acceptance within the agricultural sector by lobbying politicians to introduce compensation for farmers
Comms tools – getting the correct message to the correct people has huge impacts for success. In the case of vaccination, some studies show that communicating the potential harm of the disease influences human behaviour more than communicating the benefit of the vaccine. Nevertheless, animal owners tend to be receptive to vaccination

Funder buy-in to conduct studies to assess tolerance of various control measures
Cost-benefit analysis to be complete, at least partially, to enable economic quantification of financial savings