I designed and co-led the 5th WHO infodemic management conference, which brought together over 80 academics and public health professionals to discuss metrics and measures in infodemic management. Read the 5th IM conference booklet.
The conference participants co-developed an action plan and a concept model that integrated the information environment, individual, health system, and societal measures.
Read about the results in the peer-reviewed paper:
Wilhelm E, Ballalai I, Belanger M, Benjamin P, Bertrand-Ferrandis C, Bezbaruah S, Briand S, Brooks I, Bruns R, Bucci LM, Calleja N, Chiou H, Devaria A, Dini L, D’Souza H, Dunn AG, Eichstaedt JC, Evers SMAA, Gobat N, Gissler M, Gonzales IC, Gruzd A, Hess S, Ishizumi A, John O, Joshi A, Kaluza B, Khamis N, Kosinska M, Kulkarni S, Lingri D, Ludolph R, Mackey T, Mandić-Rajčević S, Menczer F, Mudaliar V, Murthy S, Nazakat S, Nguyen T, Nilsen J, Pallari E, Pasternak Taschner N, Petelos E, Prinstein MJ, Roozenbeek J, Schneider A, Srinivasan V, Stevanović A, Strahwald B, Syed Abdul S, Varaidzo Machiri S, van der Linden S, Voegeli C, Wardle C, Wegwarth O, White BK, Willie E, Yau B, Purnat TD. Measuring the Burden of Infodemics: Summary of the Methods and Results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference. JMIR Infodemiology 2023;3:e44207 doi: 10.2196/44207
Update January 2024: The paper received the “most tweeted of 2024 award” from JMIR infodemiology.
