Learning Interventions and Training: Providing Support during Health Emergencies

Learning interventions and training methods are pivotal in preparing healthcare workers and the public to effectively respond to health emergencies. A knowledgeable and responsive workforce is essential to save lives, reduce suffering, and minimize socio-economic losses.

The following public health emergency learning themes, in the context of public health crises (i.e., pandemics, outbreaks, disasters, conflicts, etc.) could be considered for this research topic:

• Addressing learning needs in health emergencies (i.e., training approaches and methods to increase community resilience);

• Continued education, just-in-time learning for the professionals in health response;

• Online learning, hybrid learning, in-person and other methodological choices for learning in emergencies;

• Health information dissemination for purposes of learning in health emergencies;

• Current successes and barriers in learning in health emergencies practices for continued education;

• New horizons in learning in health emergencies;

• Research gaps in learning in health emergencies;

• Conceptual framework, themes, and review over time about learning in health emergencies.

This could be ideally various article types, including Original Research, Commentary, Review, Perspective, Brief Research Reports, and Conceptual Analyses. Articles covering the professional development of healthcare workers will be out of the scope of this collection.

Topic Editor Prof. Brude Struminger received financial support via a grant from Pfizer. The other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.