Resource Pack: Dis/Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy
2022
In collaboration with multiple regional centers through the Harvard Global Studies and Outreach Project, this resource pack was created to support the 2021 global studies workshop for high-school educators on “Dis/Misinformation: Perspectives and Pedagogies for Educators in the Post-Truth Era.” The pack accompanied the panel of “Misinformation and Public Health,” which examined the devastating effects of dis-information on public health, or “info-demic,” that has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis.
Through a public health lens, the following questions were tackled and discussed: What is misinformation? What is disinformation? How might we place this most recent wave of mis/disinformation in historical context? Is the present situation unique? Who is most responsible for creating mis/disinformation and sharing it? How and why have state actors contributed to or enabled the rise of mis/disinformation? Who bears the burden of responsibility when it comes to responding to and limiting the spread of disinformation? What strategies and skills are most useful in countering the threat? As educators, how do we teach students to recognize and respond to dis/misinformation?
The panel featured public health experts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which included Dr. Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems, Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Dr. Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and Faculty Director, and Dr. Zach Ward, Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science. The panel was moderated by Jake Waxman, Media Hub Director, Center for Health Decision Science.
Source:
Resource Pack: Dis/Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2022. https://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-misinformation-and-vaccine-hesitancy