Dickmann, Petra

Dr Petra Dickmann MD, PhD 

Department

Position held

Research Fellow

 

Experience keywords:

biosafety; biosecurity; bioterrorism; global health security; infectious diseases; international health policy; risk communication

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Petra is a risk communication expert with a strong background in humanities and medicine. She holds an MA in communication and completed her PhD in cultural and political sciences (HU Berlin & ETH Zurich) with an interdisciplinary research on biosecurity; she is also a medical doctor by training and did her medical doctoral research (King's College London & University Hospital Frankfurt) in the field of CBRN threats and their impact on public perception.

Before joining LSE she worked for the Centre for Biological Security at the Robert Koch Institute (the German federal institute for infectious diseases and prevention) and at the University Hospital Frankfurt (Department for Infectious Diseases) and developed risk communication strategies for highly infectious diseases and high containment laboratories.

She has founded and is the director of a consultancy specialising in strategic risk communication offering advice to global industry, international institutions and governments. Petra is a member of the WHO virtual advisory board on Mass Gatherings and has worked in the framework of the Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI). She has contributed to a report for the Home Office on CBRN threats and worked in a EU Project on infectious diseases emergencies (ETIDE) conducting training in risk communication for clinicians and health care workers.

At LSE Health Petra is working on an EU Project on Cross Border Health Care investigation information needs of patients making choices on their healthcare; she is also part of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) group. Since summer 2011 she has been appointed as guest lecturer at the University Bonn for teaching Risk Communication and Governance.

Her vision is to set up an Academy of Risk Communication as a forum for interdisciplinary conceptual research and brainwork, teaching and exercises and as a source of cross-disciplinary discourse to provide the scientific evidence for the best health policy decision-making.

Her new book 'Plague - Pandemic - Panic' on information needs and risk communication was published in June 2011. Her next book on Biosecurity and the role of scientific knowledge in an age of terrorism will be released in November 2011.

Petra is particularly interested in risk communication and global health security.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Consultancy; Healthcare; Media Technology and New Media; Policy and Regulatory Bodies; Public Administration

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7107 5380

Alt phone number:

+44 (0)7766 902991

Alt email:

pdickmann@dickmann-drc.com

Publications

2016

Dickmann, Petra and Keeping, Sam and Doering, Nora and Schmidt, Andrea and Pasch, Claudia and Arino-Blasco , Sergio (2016) MRSA and risk communication. Regulations, practices and policy approaches in five European countries Eurosurveillance. ISSN 1025-496X

Dickmann, Petra and Abraham, Thomas and Sarkar, Satyajit and Wysocki, Piotr and Cecconi, Sabrina and Apfel, Franklin and Nurm, Ülla-Karin (2016) Risk communication as a core public health competence in infectious disease management: development of the ECDC training curriculum and programme Eurosurveillance, 21 (14). ISSN 1025-496X

Dickmann, P. and Apfel, F. and Gottschalk, R. (2016) Risk communication and generic preparedness: from agent-based to action-based planning - a conceptual framework British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, 13 (10). 1-5. ISSN 2231-0614

2015

Dickmann, Petra and Apfel, Franklin (2015) Risk and crisis communication In: Endericks, T., (ed.) Public Health for Mass Gatherings: Key Considerations. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 65-70. ISBN 9789241564939

Dickmann, Petra and Apfel, Franklin and Biedenkopf, Nadine and Eickmann, Markus and Becker, Stephan (2015) Marburg biosafety and biosecurity scale (MBBS): a framework for risk assessment and risk communication Health Security, 13 (2). 88-95. ISSN 2326-5094

Dickmann, Petra and Kitua, Andrew and Kaczmarek, Paul and Lutwama, Julius and Masumu, Justin and Karimuribo, Esron and Karsan, Yunus and Lightfoot, Nigel and Rweyemamu, Mark (2015) Using lessons learned from previous Ebola outbreaks to inform current risk management [conference summary] Emerging Infectious Diseases, 21 (5). ISSN 1080-6059

Dickmann, Petra and Sheeley, Heather and Lightfoot, Nigel (2015) Biosafety and biosecurity: a relative risk-based framework for safer, more secure, and sustainable laboratory capacity building Frontiers in Public Health, 3. 241. ISSN 2296-2565

Dickmann, Petra and Wittgens, Katharina and Keeping, Sam and Mischler, D. and Heudorf, U. (2015) Re-thinking risk communication: information needs of patients, health professionals and the public regarding MRSA – the communicative behaviour of a public health network in Germany responding to the demand for information Public Health, 131. 56-62. ISSN 0033-3506

Dickmann, Petra and McClelland, Amanda and Gamhewage, Gaya M. and Portela de Souza, Patricia and Apfel, Franklin (2015) Making sense of communication interventions in public health emergencies – an evaluation framework for risk communication Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 8 (3). 233-240. ISSN 1753-8068

2014

Dickmann, Petra (2014) Grundlagen der Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation In: Schreiber, Jürgen, (ed.) Sicherheit und Gefahrenabwehr bei Großveranstaltungen. Oldenburg, Germany, Stumpf + Kossendey Verlag, 93-101. ISBN 9783943174274

Dickmann, Petra (2014) Risikokommunikation - veranstaltungsbezogene Risikokommunikation und Einbeziehung der Besucher in das Sicherheitskonzept In: Schreiber, Jürgen, (ed.) Sicherheit und Gefahrenabwehr bei Großveranstaltungen. Oldenburg, Germany, Stumpf + Kossendey Verlag, 213-218. ISBN 9783943174274

Dickmann, Petra and Emami, Sarah and Santhakumar, Arthy and Mildenberger, Clare and Lightfoot, Nigel (2014) Safe and secure biomaterials: a risk-based alternative approach Chatham House: the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, UK.

Dickmann, Petra and Biedenkopf, Nadine and Keeping, Sam and Eickmann, Markus and Becker, Stephan (2014) Risk communication and crisis communication in infectious disease outbreaks in Germany: what is being done, and what needs to be done Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 8 (3). 206-211. ISSN 1935-7893

Tinelli, Michela and Nikoloski, Zlatko and Kumpunen, Stephanie and Knai, Cecile and Pribakovic Brinovec, Radivoje and Warren, Emily and Wittgens, Katharina and Dickmann, Petra (2014) Decision-making criteria among European patients: exploring patient preferences for primary care services The European Journal of Public Health, 25 (1). 3-9. ISSN 1101-1262

2013

Dickmann, Petra (2013) Think – biosecurity Wired Germany (1 Jan 2013)

Dickmann, Petra (2013) Introducing a new risk communication paradigm European Journal of Public Health, 23 (1 S). 112. ISSN 1101-1262

Dickmann, Petra and Becker, Stephan (2013) Das neue dual-use-Dilemma der modernen Biomedizin BIOspektrum, 19 (6). 696-697. ISSN 0947-0867

Dickmann, Petra and Keeping, Sam and Wittgens, Katharina and Jivraj, Naheed and Schmidt, Andrea and Pasch, Claudia and Arino-Blasco , Sergio and Gil, Joan (2013) Risk communication for cross border health threats: infectious diseases and anti-microbial resistance Eurohealth, 19 (4). 19-20. ISSN 1356-1030

Dickmann, Petra (2013) Mitigating the impact of infectious diseases at sporting events International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) Journal, 1 (1).

Dickmann, Petra (2013) Public health preparedness for major sport events International Centre for Sport Security, Doha, Qatar.

Tinelli, Michela and Nikoloski, Zlatko and Kumpunen, Stephanie and Pribakovic Brinovec, Radivoje and Warren, Emily and Wittgens, Katharina and Dickmann, Petra (2013) How do patients choose their preferred healthcare provider? A series of case studies from Europe BMC, 346 (f2614). rr 652284. ISSN 1756-1833

Dickmann, Petra (2013) Das neue Coronavirus und die politische Debatte um H5N1 labor & more (1 Jan 2013) 26-30

2012

Dickmann, Petra and Drosten, Christain and Becker, Stephan (2012) "Wir müssen die Risiken aushalten" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (18 Feb 2012)

Dickmann, Petra and Abraham, Thomas and Sarkar, Satyajit and Apfel, Franklin (2012) Risk communication in the prevention and control of communicable diseases. Focus: measles European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) , Solna, Sweden.

Tinelli, Michela and Kumpunen, Stephanie and Knai, Cecile and Dickmann, Petra (2012) Making choices in health care: a survey to guide policy in the European Union. In: European Public Health Conference, 8th-10th November 2012, Malta

Tinelli, Michela and Kumpunen, Stephanie and Knai, Cecile and Dickmann, Petra and Papanicolas, Irini (2012) Patient choice of general practice services: a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to guide policy in the European Union (EU). In: European Conference on Health Economics, 18th-21st July 2012, Zurich, Switzerland

2011

Dickmann, Petra and Sasse, Julia and Preuss, Bernhard and Biederbick, Walter (2011) Introduction = Einleitung In: Proceedings: Biologische Gefahren in Deutschland. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Bonn, Germany, 13-15. ISBN 9783939347057

Dickmann, Petra (2011) Biosecurity: biomedizinisches Wissen zwischen Sicherheit und Gefährdung (Biosecurity: the ambivalence of biomedical knowledge in the age of terrorism) Buchhandel, Bielefeld, Germany. ISBN 9783837619201

Dickmann, Petra (2011) Tenacity: the 'natural' decontamination of bacteria and toxins = Tenazität: die „natürliche Dekontamination“ von Bakterien und Toxinen In: Proceedings: Biologische Gefahren in Deutschland. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Bonn, Germany, 321-322. ISBN 9783939347057

Dickmann, Petra (2011) Plague – Pandemic – Panic: information needs and communication strategies for infectious diseases emergencies Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, Germany. ISBN 9783838126296

Dickmann, Petra and Wildner, Manfred and Dombrowski, Wolf (2011) Escalation levels of risk communication = Szenarien biologischer Gefahrenlagen – Eskalationsstufen der Risikokommunikation In: Proceedings: Biologische Gefahren in Deutschland. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Bonn, Germany, 115-124. ISBN 9783939347057

Dickmann, Petra and Rubin, G. James and Gaber, Walter and Wicker, Sabine and Wessely, Simon and Serve, Hubert and Gottschalk, René (2011) New Influenza A/H1N1 (“Swine Flu”): information needs of airport passengers and staff Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 5 (1). 39-46. ISSN 1750-2659

2010

Rubin, G. James and Dickmann, Petra (2010) How to reduce the impact of “low-risk patients” following a bioterrorist incident: Lessons from SARS, anthrax, and pneumonic plague Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 8 (1). 37-43. ISSN 1538-7135

2009

Dickmann, Petra (2009) Riskio-und Krisenkommunikation (Risk and crisis communication) In: Luiz, Thomas and Lackner, Christian and Peter, Hanno and Schmidt, Jörg, (eds.) Medizinische Gefahrenabwehr: Katastrophenmedizin und Krisenmanagement Im BevöLkerungsschutz (Medical Security: Disaster Medicine. Urban & Fischer Verlag, München, Deutschland, 457-462. ISBN 9783437245909

Dickmann, Petra and Keith, Kelly and Comer, Chris and Abraham, Gordon and Gopal, Robin and Marui, Eiji (2009) Report of the International Conference on Risk Communication Strategies for BSL-4 Laboratories, Tokyo, October 3-5, 2007 Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 7 (2). 227-233. ISSN 1538-7135

2008

Wicker, S. and Dickmann, Petra and Rabenau, H.F. and Beuermann, I. and Gottschalk, R. (2008) Etablierung einer risikoadaptierten Expertenkommission zur arbeitsmedizinischen Beurteilung von Mitarbeitern im Gesundheitswesen am Beispiel von HIV (Establishment of a risk-adapted expert commission for occupational evaluation of healthcare workers, takin Arbeitsmedizin, Sozialmedizin, Umweltmedizin, 43 (2). 54-61. ISSN 0944-6052

2007

Ebert, B. and Dickmann , Petra (2007) Einführung (Introduction) In: Sasse, J. and Biederbick, W. and Brockmann, S. and Hermann, M. and Preuss, B. and Schreiber, J. and Uhlenhaut, C., (eds.) Biologische Gefahren I: Handbuch Zum BevöLkerungsschutz. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe/Robert Koch-Institut , Bonn, 320-322. ISBN 9783939347064

Dickmann , Petra and Wildner, M. and Dombrowsky, W. (2007) Risikokommunikation (Risk communication) In: Sasse, J. and Biederbick, W. and Brockmann, S. and Hermann, M. and Preuss, B. and Schreiber, J. and Uhlenhaut, C., (eds.) Biologische Gefahren I: Handbuch Zum BevöLkerungsschutz. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe/Robert Koch-Institut , Bonn, 323-341. ISBN 9783939347064

Dickmann , Petra and Brockmann, S. and Ebert, B. and Wildner, M. (2007) Die Angst der Gesellschaft vor Infektionen (The social fear of infection) In: Sasse, J. and Biederbick, W. and Brockmann, S. and Hermann, M. and Preuss, B. and Schreiber, J. and Uhlenhaut, C., (eds.) Biologische Gefahren I: Handbuch Zum BevöLkerungsschutz. Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe/Robert Koch-Institut , Bonn, 342-352. ISBN 9783939347064

2005

Dickmann, Petra and Sasse, J. and Bergholz, A. and Biederbick, W. (2005) Interdisziplinäres Expertennetzwerk Biologische Gefahrenlagen (The interdisciplinary expert network on biological security) Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 48 (9). 1055-1057. ISSN 1436-9990

Dickmann, Petra and Sasse, J. and Bergholz, A. and Uhlenhaut, C. and Riedman, K. (2005) Das Interdisziplinäre Expertennetzwerk Biologische Gefahrenlagen ruft Forum für Detektion, Dekontamination und Persönliche Schutzausrüstung ins Leben (The interdisciplinary expert network on biological security initiates the forum for detection, decont Notfallvorsorge (2). 12-13. ISSN 0948-7913

Dickmann, Petra and Kernchen, Roman (2005) Security aspects of bioaerosol technologies Bioforum Europe, 9 (3). 2-4. ISSN 1611-597X

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