Between hantavirus spreading beyond a cruise ship outbreak and Ebola resurging in the DRC and Uganda – and the related talk of travel restrictions, vaccines, and major event cancellations – it’s feeling a little too much like February 2020. Or 2014 in Liberia. Or 2009 in Mexico.
“We’ve been here before” isn’t something you want to hear when it comes to disease, but you do when it comes to managing the response. Qorvis helped clients navigate every major global shift of the last 25 years, including the public health emergencies that fundamentally changed how we work, travel, and communicate.
We supported Mexico during H1N1, which came during a period of intense cartel violence. We helped Firestone communicate its frontline Ebola response in Liberia, where its hospital became a critical treatment and containment facility during the worst Ebola outbreak in history. We advised biopharma companies on how to talk about their work during COVID-19, and companies of all kinds on how to adapt to the rapidly changing workplace and economy. We trained Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts on how to communicate with the public during all of these crises.
Disease outbreaks are never just health crises. They can become trade crises, supply chain crises, crises of politics, media, public trust – often all at once.
The organizations that survive are the ones that prepared before the crisis hit.
You may be facing a potential crisis right now, whether you’re a country or healthcare institution, a vaccine manufacturer or an airline, or a company in any sector trying to operate across borders during global instability. And if you’re not, recent headlines are a reminder that one could be just one flight away.
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