About the Infodemic Management Course SeriesInfodemic Management
An infodemic is an overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during an acute public health event. This modern and complex phenomenon will now accompany all acute health events.
The Infodemic Management OpenWHO course series provides an overview of the strategies, good practices, methods and tools that infodemic managers and all interested health workers can use in the field to prevent, prepare for and respond to this phenomenon.
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The practice of infodemic management involves systematic use risk- and evidence-based analysis and approaches to promote a healthier information environment and resilience against infodemic impacts...
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In practice, an infodemic manager working on building infodemic insights reports or an efficient intervention strategy needs a thorough understanding of the information environment and ecosystem of...
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When practicing social listening activities for public health purposes such as infodemic management, health professionals need a taxonomy adapted to their questions and to the domain they cover. Ta...
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Infodemics are accelerated and amplified through digital media and offline, causing information overload and confusion. Within this noisy information environment that affects people’s perceptions, ...
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In the recent years, the circulation of health misinformation and disinformation has exploded with the digitalized information ecosystem. They cause confusion and risk-taking behaviours that can ha...
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Developing an infodemic insights report is one of the key actions taken by infodemic managers to help health authorities and partners identify, questions, concerns, information voids, narratives an...
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Everyone has a role in managing the infodemic, and this journey starts by understanding and identifying its key mechanisms and actors. This course is for anyone interested in understanding what an ...
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