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

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