I gave the closing keynote talk at The Evolving Health Information Landscape Symposium hosted by the Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Distributed eLibrary.
The audience were information and library scientists and practitioners, so I discussed the importance of libraries in building information literacy and resilience to misinformation.
I wrote a summary of the talk on my LinkedIn blog, and here’s the recording. I had some fun with internet sleuthing and delivered the second half of my talk in librarian memes 🙂
Infodemic is a phenomenon that is becoming one of the major features of our society. Libraries can help us buffering between the infodemic and our personal and professional lives — as a venue of access to health information, fostering literacies that help us cope with the changing science, uncertainty in health information quality and health-related knowledge, as well as their ability to sift through the mass of scientific and grey literature to use in our jobs and in our lives. Libraries can help public health professionals and the health system help buffer the infodemic.
Read my abstract:
Purnat TD. The Evolution of Evidence and Public Health Practice in the Digital Era. QScience Proceedings. 2021 Dec 2;2022(1):12.