Roles & Responsibilities

Primary Roles

The EACD Communications Committee is installed with the goal of ensuring the dissemination of high quality, accessible information and resources relevant for the area of childhood-onset disabilities to the membership and the wider public

General Responsibilities

• To ensure the visibility of the EACD organisation and its activities to the membership and the wider public. This includes among other the promotion of our EACD Annual Meeting, EACD Online Events, and our EACD Education Website via the various communication channels.
• To ensure the EACD website is, and remains, up-to-date with events, news, resources, links or other relevant information for the membership and wider community. This also includes curating the content on the EACD Education website (e.g. updating outdated information, resources or links if needed).
• To identify and collect potential scientific and educational content that contains accessible information and resources (developed by EACD or by third parties) relevant to the European context that aims to improve patient care and outcomes for people with childhood-onset disabilities, and that could be shared with the membership and wider community. This may include internet materials, journal articles, clinical guidelines, podcasts, videos, webinars, etc. The EACD Communications Committee is responsible for presenting any identified potential content of interest to the EACD Scientific Committee for approval prior to dissemination.
• To disseminate high quality, accessible information and resources relevant to the European context that aim to improve patient care and outcomes for people with childhood-onset disabilities, for example via the EACD Education website or via EACD’s communication channels.
• To publish a monthly newsletter with updates from EACD to the membership and wider community.
• To maintain an active social media presence as EACD (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads).

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