Communicating about COVID-19 Vaccines: A Technical Brief
Countries and localities are developing risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) strategies and planning campaigns to promote vaccine uptake and acceptance.
To assist those efforts, this technical brief provides an overview of the following:
- Steps in developing an RCCE strategy
- Additional considerations for vaccine communication
- Ways to manage misinformation and rumors

- ETC Guidance on the Provision of Digital Communication Technologies in COVID-19 operations
- 14 Actions You Can Take Today to Adapt your Program for COVID-19: Recommendations from FP/RH Advisors
- 5 Ways to Use Sensitivity When Writing About Vaccines
- Key Messages: COVID-19 and Primary Health Care
- Practice Guide: Behaviour Change Communication during Crisis
- Behavioural Considerations for Acceptance and Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines: WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural Insights and Sciences for Health
- COVID-19 Communication Handbook 2020: How to Design Behaviourally-informed Communication
- Guidance about Communication to Combat COVID-19
- Technical Brief: Virtual Pretesting during COVID-19
- COVID-19 Vaccination Communication
- Guide for the Preparation of a Risk Communication Strategy for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Resource for the Countries of the Americas
- The COVID-19 Message Toolkit
- The False Rumors About Vaccines That Are Scaring Women
- How Best to Protect Yourself from the Coronavirus
- Talking to Community: Behavioural Change in the Age of COVID-19
May 24, 2021