WHO ad-hoc online consultation on managing the COVID-19 infodemic
On 7 and 8 April, the WHO Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN) held a two-day global online consultation on managing the COVID-19 infodemic. The aim of this consultation was to crowdsource ideas for fighting the infodemic from an interdisciplinary group of experts and the 1,300 participants joining the webinar. Alongside the inputs of the speakers, over 350 ideas were submitted through an online interactive forum while the consultation was going on. Together, all these will form the basis for a COVID-19 infodemic framework to guide the actions governments and public health institutions can take.
Meeting documents
WHO consultation on infodemic management framework - Speaker biographies
WHO consultation on infodemic management framework - Provisional programme
WHO consultation on infodemic management framework - List of participants
WHO consultation on infodemic management framework - Final recap of meeting
Publication
Videos
Towards a WHO framework for infodemic management
Tim Nguyen, World Health Organization
Policy-makers’ information needs when responding to an infodemic
Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
AFP digital verification service
Yana Dlugy, AFP Digital Verification, France
Challenges and current experience in informing infodemic management
Ève Dubé, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Canada
Connecting people with authoritative health information on Facebook
Athas Nikolakakos and Praveen Raja, Facebook, USA
Infodemiology: A Publishers’ view (but also as scientist!)
Gunther Eysenbach, JMIR Publications, Canada
Infodemiology: The socio-behavioral dimension
Pier Luigi Sacco, IULM University, Italy
European Disinfo Lab resources for tackling misinformation about COVID-19
Alexandre Alaphilippe, EU disinformation lab, Belgium
Lessons from 2015 MERS-Cov and COVID-19 for infodemic management
Kisoo Park, Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea
Misinformation making a disease outbreak worse: outcomes compared for influenza, monkeypox, and norovirus
Julii Brainard, Norwich Medical School UEA, UK
Correction of global health misinformation on social media (Zika experience)
Leticia Bode, Georgetown University, USA
Supporting the fight against COVID-19 infodemic in SE Asia
Rebecca Petras, H2H Network, USA/France
Canadian misinformation and fact checking portal
Philip Mai and Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada
Effective strategies to counter science denialism in public
Philipp Schmid, University of Erfurt, Germany
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
Jay J. Van Bavel, New York University, USA
Web/Social media listening and analytics for COVID-19 communication
Tim Zecchin, Media Measurement, UK
Infodemiology: Tools for detecting and assessing infodemics
Manlio De Domenico, Complex Multilayer Networks Lab, FBK – Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Social media analytics about COVID-19 in the Americas
Sebastian Garcia Saiso, PAHO/WHO, and Ian Brooks, University of Illinois, USA
Assessing the similarity between daily news headlines and WHO recommendations
Tavpritesh Sethi, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
WHO consultation on COVID-19 infodemic management
Discussion with policymakers
Summary of all talks
