Tina D Purnat

Data, tech & health policy

Public health

Healthy information environment

Health information and informatics

Infodemic management

Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat
Tina D Purnat

Data, tech & health policy

Public health

Healthy information environment

Health information and informatics

Infodemic management

Portfolio

106 items

2026
@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, reesarch 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 managment 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: Undertanding 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

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