English, Portuguese, Spanish
By the end of this course, you should be able to understand and address health misinformation with key tools and approaches of infodemic management
Develop a framework using the online verification and content moderating strategies applied in the course that can be used to advance your organisation and career
Be part of a robust global health fact-checking and infodemic management community helping to strengthen local, regional and global response to misinformation
GSK is a global biopharma company with the ambition and purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. It prioritises innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines, maximising the increasing opportunities to prevent and treat disease. At the heart of it is our R&D focus on the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies, and our world-leading capabilities in vaccines and medicines development.
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The course is developed by DataLEADS in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals for healthcare workers worldwide
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The training consists of six modules and each module is an on-demand video of 10 to 12 minutes. The on-demand video has a single anchor for training consistency. The training modules are developed in English and have subtitles in Portuguese and Spanish.
Eligibility Criteria:Besides the healthcare professionals the course is open to anyone interested in infodemic management in public health. The course is free of cost. Participants need to Register HereRegister Here
The training will consist of six modules and each module will be an on-demand video of 10 to 12 minutes. The on-demand video will have a single anchor for training consistency. The training modules will be developed in English and will have subtitles in Portuguese and Spanish.
Each module is 10-12 minutes long
Eligibility Criteria:The course is free of cost but participants need to register on the website.
What are the key information literacy and infodemic management competencies
How to decide what is a trustworthy and credible online source
Best practices to protect healthcare workers and patients from misinformation
How can healthcare workers check their own biases and be fact-warriors
Hear expert advice on how to protect patients from misinformation
Key tools and approaches to verify
information
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented challenge to the public health domain. It has not only led to the spread of the virus globally, but also resulted in the proliferation of misinformation in the form of “Infodemic''. With the upsurge of false and misleading information the healthcare workers and professionals have been confronted with daunting challenges. Health misinformation has serious consequences for society as it leads to undesirable and risk-taking behaviours. It erodes trust in the public healthcare system, leads people to fall for false preventive measures, encourages them to try unsubstantiated and unscientific therapies – all of which could lead them to harm and put their lives at risk. There is a critical and impending need to make collaborative efforts to overcome these risks. Read More
Addressing the ‘infodemic’ requires strengthening the public health response and improving the information ecosystem management to build resilience to health misinformation. There is a critical need to adopt countermeasures and make the infodemic management an essential component of 21st century health discourse.
This self-paced training course is to equip healthcare workers with necessary skills such as critical thinking, understanding human biases and learning fact checking tools to prebunk and debunk misinformation in the healthcare domain. It will also empower healthcare workers with best practice approaches and tools to help them deal with misinformation, and educate people who are influenced by unscientific claims and fake news about health, medicine and vaccination.
Course duration: Each module is 10-12 minutes long
The training will consist of 6 modules and each module will be an on-demand video of 10 to 12 minutes. The on-demand video will have a single anchor for training consistency. The training modules will be developed in English and will have subtitles in Portuguese and Spanish.
The course is free of cost but participants need to register on the website.
Deadline for taking the course -December 31st 2022. Register here to generate login and password:
"If you think back to early 2020, very few scientists knew what an RNA vaccine was, and now billions of people have gotten them. It's no wonder that people have a lot of questions, and the healthcare community is responsible for getting the correct information out there"
"Healthcare communities must fight health misinformation because trusted and truthful information is the universal frontline of effective public health delivery."
“Misinformation on burden and incidence of diseases places individuals and communities in harms way. It does not allow policy makers, physicians, hospitals, and government officials prepare to meet the threats and dangers in an effective and timely manner.”
"Health is an information-intensive sector: healthcare is based on extensive data collection, information management and knowledge utilization at all levels. Knowledge is the enemy of disease. The application of what we know has a bigger impact than any drug or technology. Consequently, bad information can only cause and amplify bad health"
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Why is it important for healthcare community to fight health misinformation
Healthcare communities must fight health misinformation because trusted and truthful information is the universal frontline of effective public health delivery
Misinformation on burden and incidence of diseases places individuals and communities in harms way. It does not allow policy makers, physicians....
Misinformation on burden and incidence of diseases places individuals and communities in harms way. It does not allow policy makers, physicians, hospitals, and government officials prepare to meet the threats and dangers in an effective and timely manner. We suffer through more infection, disease and deaths. We also suffer by its impact on economic development, especially in emerging and developing economies.
Why is it important for healthcare community to fight health misinformation?
Health is an information-intensive sector: healthcare is based on extensive data collection, information management and knowledge utilization at all levels. Knowledge is the enemy of disease. The application of what we know has a bigger impact than any drug or technology. Consequently, bad information can only cause and amplify bad health
