To narrow this gap, INDOHUN with the support from the USAID One Health Workforce Next Generation and the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Higher Education, conducted three batches of health communication training. This training aimed to enhance the lecturers’ digital communication skills in constructing scientific yet audience-friendly digital communication materials on health, particularly to effectively communicate pandemic-relevant information to online audiences based on their local wisdom. The two-day online training offered additional tools to the participants who are already active on social media yet have no formal communication training. Knowing audiences and their socio-cultural background better to be able to share a targeted message is particularly relevant for social media platforms. INDOHUN demonstrated effective and good communication between the trainer, facilitator, moderator, and the participants by using the blended learning method combining one-way presentation, active discussion, role play, and workshop experiences around making good communication materials.

This online training gained lot of positive feedback on the delivery and content. As one participants stated in the training evaluation feedback form, “This training provides new knowledge for us who do not have a background in communication to be able to make better public service messages. [It showed] How does the message made by us deliver to the recipient without any change in meaning due to false interpretation.”  With this training, INDOHUN is paving the way for more health influencers to reach the public on risk-awareness and prevention.