Key Action: HHS will integrate behavioral health, organizational and resilience research in communications about NPI and community resilience. Incorporating behavioral, organizational, and health literacy research and using community-driven channels to communicate about NPIs are relatively new aspects of community mitigation. Fully engaging diverse stakeholders in problem-solving before a pandemic contributes to community resilience and can help slow disease transmission in communities if vaccines are not readily available or until vaccines or other MCMs arrive. Leveraging progress in Community Mitigation, and applying lessons learned from ill the 2009 influenza pandemic and other recent responses to novel influenza viruses w yield areas for potential breakthroughs for the next influenza pandemic. 20
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