Consultant Advisor, World Health Organisation (WHO)--ongoing

    Impact: Policy impacts, Health impacts, Technology impacts

    Purpose of research project *

    consulting and advising on social media use, medical misinformation, ethics of social listening in health contexts

    Who has, is or will benefit *

    public health

    Description of impact *

    I am working with the WHO's Infodemic Management team on projects related to young people, social media, and health misinformation. To date, these have included the following:

    1. Policy brief on Young People and the Infodemic (under internal review)
    2. Framework & Toolkit for Analysing Youth Interactions online (under review)
    3. Textbook chapter on Ethics in Infodemic Management (under review)
    4. Lectures for WHO Global Infodemic Management Training in 2020 and 2021(on my research with young people, and on ethical considerations in infodemic management design. )
    5. Panel for Global Health Literacy Summit (on information overload--forthcoming, Oct 4 2021)
    6. Presentation for Global Health Literacy Summit (title: The Case for Teaching Influence Literacy--forthcoming, Oct 5, 2021)7. 
    Impact date1 Sept 2020 → 1 Sept 2023
    Category of impactPolicy impacts, Health impacts, Technology impacts
    Impact levelEmerging (pre)

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