Asset paper series Epidemics and Pandemics: The response of Society - Issue No. 4, July 2017

Specifically Michele Bellone from Zadig, Italy, presents an overview of the current use of social networks, including in the even of emergencies, while the NCIPD team from Bulgaria discusses their findings on the potential use of social networks for the dissemination of PH messages in the Bulgarian population. [...] deliberative democracy, this method gives The purpose of this article is to analyse the voice to the public opinion and communicates conclusions drawn from the Citizen the results to the public officials [6]. [...] to the citizens, one of the best ways to supply On the other hand, the institutions of the information in times of epidemics/pandemics is European Union have the highest confidence through one-way communication from the index. [...] INTRODUCTION and sealing its exit from the vaccine space by Within the ASSET project, social media is one finalizing the sale of its flu vaccines unit to 2 of the main activities and one of the tasks CSL). [...] Collected data suggests that Pfizer is more involved in social media activities than in website maintenance and this confirms the fact that social media is a medium between the public and the industry in the field of Research and Innovation on vaccines and antiviral drugs.