Annegret Hannawa
Annegret Friederike Hannawa (born 27 April 1979 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German communication scientist and director of the Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Safety (CAHQS) at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.[1] She presides the European Institute for Safe Communication (EISC).[2]
Studies
Hannawa studied interpersonal communication at San Diego State University, where she earned a master's degree in 2006.[3]
She then began her Ph.D. studies in health communication at Arizona State University. Her dissertation developed a communication science model of "Physician Mistake Disclosure."[4] In 2009, Hannawa received her doctorate from ASU.[5]
Academic career and work
Hannawa received her first academic appointment at Wake Forest University (WFU) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, as tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies.[6] In 2011, she was appointed to a tenure-track professorship in health communication and research methodology at the Faculty of Communication, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano, Switzerland), where she still works today.[7]
Hannawa conducted a grant-funded international congress entitled "Communicating Medical Error (COME)" in 2013.[8] The conference evolved into the nonprofit organization "ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare."[9] To date, Hannawa leads this research association as its founding president-elect.[10] Also in 2013, she received funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to develop evidence-based communication guidelines for disclosing medical errors to patients.[11] In 2019, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health tasked her to analyze the pandemic communication surrounding Covid-19.[12][13]
In 2016, Hannawa founded an interdisciplinary Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Safety (CAHQS) at the Università della Svizzera italiana.[14] In the same year, she was elected as a scientific expert to the ELSI Advisory Board of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN).[15] In addition, she received honorary titles as Associate Faculty at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)[16] and Cardiff University School of Medicine (Wales, United Kingdom).[7] In the same year, she was awarded the "Jozien Bensing Research Award".[17] In 2023, the government or the Swiss Canton of Uri recognized her with an appointment as Ambassador.[18] In June 2024, she founded the European Institute for Safe Communication (EISK), bringing together science and practice to protect professionals in aviation, healthcare, emergency services, energy, and crisis management from communication failures in high-risk situations.[19][20][21]

Research
Hannawa's research focuses primarily on how "safe communication" can prevent harmful errors in everyday clinical practice and ensure high-quality healthcare, particularly in the digital age.[22] In her scientific research, she has evaluated over 1000 cases of harm in hospitals.[23][24] According to her statistics, 53 patients die every day in Germany as a result of treatment errors;[25] up to 80 percent of these cases can be traced back to unsafe communication.[26][27] From this evidence, Hannawa developed a science-based "SACCIA safe communication" model that conveys five competencies that can help people build resilience against communication failures.[28] Meanwhile, she has extended her safe communication research to other high-risk contexts, such as Covid-19,[29][12][30] airborne rescues[31][32] and climate change.[33]
Awards
- Jozien Bensing Research Award, 2016.[34]
See also
- Safety
- Patient safety
- Medical error
- Human error
- Interpersonal communication
- Healthcare quality
- Health Communication
- Digitization
References
- ↑ Our Team. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
- ↑ The European Institute for Safe Communication is established. (2024-08-22) Retrieved 2024-09-02 from link
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Hannawa, Annegret Friederike. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Università della Svizzera italiana
- ↑ July 2010 Faculty Focus. (2010-07-01) Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Wake Forest News
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dr. Annegret Hannawa, PhD. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from USI
- ↑ COME - Conference - Communicating Medical Error. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from www.come.usi.ch
- ↑ About. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare
- ↑ Board. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from ISCOME Global Center for the Advancement of Communication Science in Healthcare
- ↑ Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF | P3 Research Grant Search Database | Projects - People – Publications. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from p3.snf.ch
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ The quality of public communication during COVID-19: symptoms of a wider malaise | Swiss Medical Weekly. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from smw.ch
- ↑ Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
- ↑ ELSI Advisory Group (ELSIag). Retrieved 2021-04-16 from SPHN
- ↑ Faculty. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- ↑ USI professor wins Jozien Bensing Research Award 2016. Retrieved 2021-04-16 from www.com.usi.ch
- ↑ Professor Hannawa appointed ambassador of Uri. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from www.usi.ch
- ↑ Schlechte Kommunikation kann Leben gefährden. (2024-08-20) Retrieved 2024-09-02 from link
- ↑ Safety begins between people. (2024-09-02) Retrieved 2024-09-02 from link
- ↑ USI professor establishes European Institute for Safe Communication in Uri. (2024-07-03) Retrieved 2024-09-02 from link
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Von wegen "Soft-Skill". Retrieved 2021-04-16 from www.landdergesundheit.de
- ↑ Aktuelle Studie: Patienten verstehen oft nur Bahnhof. Lausitzer Rundschau. (2019-03-10) Retrieved 2021-04-16 from lr-online.de
- ↑ Schweigen gefährdet Menschenleben. (2017-09-14) Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Frankfurter Rundschau
- ↑ Kommunikation zwischen Arzt und Patient - Das große Risiko des gegenseitigen Nicht-Verstehens. (27 October 2017) Retrieved 2021-04-16 from Deutschlandfunk
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Mangelhafte Kommunikation zwischen Arzt und Patient? Manchmal richtet sie mehr Schaden an als die Krankheit selbst. Valeria Camia. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from Ticino Scienza
- ↑ Our Work. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality and Safety
- ↑ Communication during Covid-19: A Swiss National Study (11 April 2022). (2022-04-12) Retrieved 2023-12-19 from Patient Safety Learning - the hub
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
- ↑ Competence - Humanfaktoren in der Bergrettung. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from competence.ch
- ↑ Building shared knowledge on the climate crisis. Retrieved 2023-12-19 from www.usi.ch
- ↑ Lua error: bad argument #1 to "get" (not a valid title).
External links
- Template:Google scholar id
- Annegret Hannawa publications indexed by PubMed
- Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety (CAHQS)
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