Revisiting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Successes and New Lessons Learned.

Communication professionals in Federal agencies must have a seat at their agency's budget formulation table - to inform the budget process from the beginning and to advise on funding for the communications required to achieve program goals. This is one of nine lessons learned from US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) systems change efforts that were applied to help create the "We Can Do This" COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign (Campaign), and these lessons were presented in a 2022 article. Now that substantial evaluation data are available in eight recent research articles to verify the Campaign's success, this lesson can be revisited to identify more specific ways in which it can be applied, along with two additional lessons identified from the Campaign implementation.

Creating the HHS COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign: Applying Systems Change Learnings.

The COVID-19 Public Education Media Campaign was initiated in July 2020 by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The process by which the Campaign was developed and operated by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA) was different than for other HHS campaigns. Nine learnings from recent ASPA systems change efforts were employed to guide development and implementation of the Campaign.

Creating a Robust Digital Communications Strategy for the US Department of Health & Human Services.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed and is implementing an agency-wide Digital Communications Strategy. A robust strategy to coordinate digital communications is vital at times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic - and will be needed as part of an effective HHS campaign to motivate individuals who are hesitant to accept coronavirus vaccines. Using science-based principles of systems change, a four-phase approach was developed in alignment with the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA).

An institutional experience with epidural analgesia in children and young adults undergoing cardiac surgery.

Background: Allowing spontaneous respiration after cardiac surgery eliminates complications related to mechanical ventilation and optimizes cardiopulmonary interaction. Epidural analgesia has been proposed to promote early extubation after cardiac surgery.

Objective: To identify the characteristics of patients with epidural analgesia and safety profiles with respect to the timing of extubation following cardiac surgery.

Slipping magnetic reconnection in coronal loops.

Magnetic reconnection of solar coronal loops is the main process that causes solar flares and possibly coronal heating. In the standard model, magnetic field lines break and reconnect instantaneously at places where the field mapping is discontinuous. However, another mode may operate where the magnetic field mapping is continuous but shows steep gradients: The field lines may slip across each other.