2026
@Health Informatics Bangladesh: Health Information, Misinformation and Information Ecosystems Speaking ↗ @IFPH, Univ of Manchester: Keynote and presentation on global health and health information Speaking ↗ @July Global IM meetup: On the visibility of health information in AI assistants Speaking ↗ @First Check LIVE: On health information pathways and the future of public trust Speaking ↗ @SBCC Summit, Panama: Introducing Field Infodemiology into Community Health Worker Practice Speaking ↗ @WHO Youth Council with IFMSA: On critical health literacy Speaking ↗ For European PH Week 2026: A webinar on information environment Speaking ↗ @Global forum of WHO Collaborating Centers: Leading a panel on misinformation about science Speaking ↗ @ANSER conference: SRHR misinformation and foresight Speaking ↗ @ECDC webinar: What is information environment in health context Speaking ↗ @OECD: Examining what the PaRIS survey reveals about trust and patient outcomes in healthcare settings Speaking ↗ Editorial in HPI: Trust is a verb – how to reimagine confidence in health systems Journal article ↗ New Book chapter on health disinformation Book ↗ 2025
In JMIR Infodemiology: A scoping review on Impacts of SRH Misinformation on Human Rights Protection and Promotion Journal article ↗ Editorial in HPI: Health promotion in the algorithmic age Journal article ↗ Editorial in BMJ: Health information in age of social media and influence ↗ @AAHMS: a keynote on Trust in health and medicine Speaking ↗ In the Lancet Primary Care: The role of health-care providers in the health-information journey of patients Journal article ↗ @Univ of Memphis: Storytelling for health with high school students Training ↗ @ CDIC 2025: On how expertise and information are being reframed in health Speaking ↗ @SOPHE plenary on Media, Information, Science, and Health Literacy Speaking ↗ @ASPO: a panel on health misinformation and cancer Speaking ↗ @WHO webinar on scoping review of sexual and reproductive health misinformation & human rights Speaking ↗ New commentary in BMJ: on efforts to counter health misinformation Journal article ↗ @EDMO: Delivering a workshop on health disinformation Training ↗ @Heidelberg IPH: teaching risk communication and infodemiology Speaking ↗ @Pulse IT podcast on information ecosystem and health Speaking ↗ 2024
@International Symposium on Informational Health Speaking ↗ Personal essay published on hsph.harvard.edu Blog ↗ Added to NCBI Bookshelf: Managing Infodemics in the 21st Century Book ↗ @PHABC’s Conference 2024: On commercial determinants of health Speaking ↗ @EUPHA 2024: On partnering with fact-checking organizations Speaking ↗ @APHA 2024’s session on Health equity in the digital age Speaking ↗ Navigating the digital world with my mom Blog ↗ Chapter on infodemic management in “Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response” Book ↗ @Salzburg Global Seminar and RWJF: Improving health knowledge systems Speaking ↗ @Social Science Research Council’s Mercury Project Solutions Summit Speaking ↗ With pharmaceutical students on community resilience and infodemics Speaking ↗ @Nigeria Health Watch with social media influencer fellows responding to health misinformation Speaking ↗ @Imperial College London: Mitigating health misinformation for healthcare management professionals Speaking ↗ @UC Berkeley: Guest lecturer in the New Media class Speaking ↗ @GlobalFact11: How fact-checkers can work with public health Speaking ↗ For public health communicators in the US: “Lions, tigers, AI and health misinformation, oh my!” Speaking ↗ @LSHTM Pandemics course: on responding to health misinformation Speaking ↗ At Warsaw University of Technology: On disinformation in health Speaking ↗ At Issues in Science and Technology podcast Speaking ↗ At University of Belgrade: Webinar on Health security and infodemic management #GlobalPublicHealthWeek2024 Speaking ↗ At CAPHIA: Infodemic Management Masterclass #GlobalPublicHealthWeek2024 Speaking ↗ At McMaster University: Guest speaker Speaking ↗ At PHIRI Spring school on health information 2024 Speaking ↗ Discussing women in science – International Women’s Day 2024 Speaking ↗ At Heidelberg Institute of Global Health: on information ecosystems and public health Speaking ↗ 2023
At TUM, Germany: on literacies, information environment and infodemic management Speaking ↗ At the Royal Society/Wikimedia UK/BBC: on trust in emergencies and information literacy Speaking ↗ At the Annual Conference for the Public Health Association of BC: Keynote on “The AI apocalypse has been cancelled” Speaking ↗ Silver award @ AMEC 2023: Effective planning, research and evaluation for communications Journal article ↗ At University of Minho graduate course on community interventions and infodemic management Speaking ↗ At Fondation Merieux Vaccine Confidence symposium: on social listening, information environment and infodemic management Speaking ↗ At the American Public Health Conference 2023, Atlanta: seven abstracts ranging from global health equity, digital health, community health through pandemic preparedness and health promotion Poster ↗ At the European Public Health Conference 2023, Dublin: a preconference talk and six abstracts across evidence and research, capacity building and worforce development, health literacy and pandemic preparedness Poster ↗ Public health taxonomy for social listening on respiratory pathogens Tools ↗ At the Malta College of Family Practitioners/Malta Association of Public Health Medicine: workshop on infodemic management skills for General Practitioners Training ↗ At Univ of Memphis School of Public Health: seminar and workshop on teens, public health and information environment Speaking ↗ Intersecting information environment, public health and humanitarian settings Speaking ↗ Open access book: Managing infodemics in the 21st century Book ↗ WHO infodemic management eLearning channel Training ↗ Blog highlight: Improving the information environment for sexual and reproductive health and rights Blog ↗ On infodemic, misinformation and antimicrobial resistance Blog ↗ Best poster award: Social Media Analysis Tools for Public Health – A Cross-Sectional Survey Poster ↗ WHO/UNICEF manual for rapid social listening and producing infodemic insights for action Tools ↗ UN’s response to the COVID-19 infodemic Report ↗ Establishing Infodemic Management in Germany: A Framework for Social Listening and Integrated Analysis to Report Infodemic Insights at the National Public Health Institute Journal article ↗ Measuring the burden of infodemics with a research toolkit for connecting information exposure, trust, and health behaviours Journal article ↗ At Public Health Association of BC’s Summer Institute: Intersections of AI, technology and health misinformation – and what we can do about it Blog ↗ Using Machine Learning Technology to Enhance Digital Social Understanding of the COVID-19 Infodemic (WHO EARS platform) Journal article ↗ At Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: On disinformation, the information ecosystem, and health security Speaking ↗ At the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting 2023, Boston: How misinformation impacts children’s health Speaking ↗ At the World Congress of Public Health 2023, Rome: on building health information equity in the age of infodemics Speaking ↗ A case for investing in infodemic management Blog ↗ At NASEM: Understanding the complexities of infodemics in public health emergencies Speaking ↗ The digital information ecosystem and trust Speaking ↗ Vaccines and infodemic: Learning ahead of the next pandemic Blog ↗ WHO global curriculum on infodemic management Report ↗ WHO ethical framework and tools for social listening and infodemic management Report ↗ Discussion with Global Youth Movement: Clarity of vision to act and work for resilience Speaking ↗ 2022
How can we understand the modern information environment in our efforts to promote health behaviors Speaking ↗ Infodemic management @ Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit, Morocco, 2022 Blog ↗ WHO policy brief on COVID-19 infodemic management Report ↗ Generating evidence for artificial intelligence-based medical devices: a WHO framework for training, validation and evaluation Report ↗ Digital technologies for key public health functions Report ↗ WHO competency framework for infodemic management Journal article ↗ Storytelling as a skill in infodemic management Blog ↗ WHO evidence and gap map of interventions for infodemic management during health emergencies Blog ↗ Comprehensive training to promote vaccine demand Training ↗ 2021
Closing keynote @ The Evolving Health Information Landscape Symposium, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Distributed eLibrary Blog ↗ Keynote speech at European Public Health Conference 2021: Building on the experience of COVID-19 infodemic management to look ahead Blog ↗ 5th WHO infodemic management conference – metrics and measures of burden of infodemics Journal article ↗ WHO research agenda for managing infodemics Journal article ↗ Third WHO infodemic manager training Training ↗ WHO fourth global infodemic management conference: advances in social listening for public health Report ↗ 2020
Third WHO infodemic management conference #societyVSinfodemic Report ↗ PAHO Strategic dialogue with women leaders in digital transformation of the health sector Speaking ↗ First WHO global infodemic manager training Training ↗ First WHO infodemiology conference Journal article ↗ WHO infodemic management framework Journal article ↗ 2018
WHO Europe Advanced course on health information and evidence for policy-making Report ↗ WHO Europe Autumn school of health information and evidence for policy Training ↗ WHO Europe’s Health for all database explorer Tools ↗ WHO European Health Report 2018 Report ↗ 2017
WHO European Health Information Gateway (2015-2019) Tools ↗ WHO health statistics mobile app (2017-2020) Tools ↗