Across the world, health ministries are confronted with responding not just to COVID-19 pandemic, but the infodemic alongside it. To ensure the effectiveness of health interventions, there needs to be an integration of infodemic management as part of the overall emergency response. In this track, country health authorities will identify their experience of the past year and discuss effective ways for listening to their constituents and discuss how the infodemic is impacting management of the pandemic. They will outline best practices for building trust among key populations and discuss how infodemic management can be integrated into their pandemic preparedness plans.

Track Objective

Over the 2 sessions, participants will aim to understand how infodemic management can fit existing epidemiological surveillance and response processes for emergencies and health system service delivery, how real-time infodemic management insights can support more nimble programmatic response, and how infodemic management can support trust-building and credibility in health system emergency response, particularly among populations that are most at risk.

Recordings of the webinar discussion are available here:

Panel 1  ▶ Video

Panel 2  ▶ Video

In addition to the discussion panels, 13 posters have been submitted to the conference, sharing experience in health claim factchecking, and in COVID-19 response from Cameroon, Canada, Finland, Indonesia, Mexico, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa and Sweden/Skåne. Take a digital poster walk through the wealth of experience shared in the posters!

Outputs

As a result of these sessions, there will be more clarity on bow to build multidisciplinary coordination within the health sector and other ministries and other parts of society to build trust as part of an ongoing pandemic and infodemic response process.

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