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The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the health and information disparities in underserved and underrepresented communities. This includes ensuring equal understanding of accurate health information, education in hard hit communities, and valuing inclusion in clinical research to overcome COVID-19.<\/p>\n
The NNLM Virtual Symposium: Responding to the COVID-19 Infodemic is an opportunity to learn about, address, and combat\u00a0 misinformation and mistrust.\u00a0 Symposium attendees can expect to come away from the 2-day experience with a better understanding of COVID-19 and share strategies and programs to engage with your community.<\/p>\n
WHEN<\/strong> HOW DO I REGISTER?<\/strong> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<\/strong> Gregg Orton, National Director, The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, Washington, DC DAY 1: PAPER PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n Outreach and Education: Libraries and Information<\/strong><\/p>\n WHO Infodemic: Global Perspective and Outreach and Education: Health Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n Listening to Community Concerns in the COVID-19 Infodemic: A WHO Digital Approach<\/p>\n<\/li>\n 50 Global Actions to Manage the COVID-19 Infodemic: a WHO Framework<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Health Care Workers and the COVID-19 Infodemic: A Quandary of Quantity, Quality and Delivery<\/p>\n<\/li>\n COVID-19 Infodemic: Community Health Workers (CHWs) Bridge the Gap<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A Pilot Study of Medical Misinformation Perceptions and Training Among Practitioners in North Carolina<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Addressing the Infodemic Online<\/strong><\/p>\n The Role of the Crowd in Countering Misinformation: A Case Study of the COVID-19 Infodemic<\/p>\n<\/li>\n @Dear Pandemic: A Social-Media Based COVID-19 Science Communication Campaign<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Anti-vaccination Movement’s Use of Black & Brown Bodies to Promote Distrust in the COVID Vaccine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Librarians and Health Professionals Partner to Address Health Information Needs in Time of COVID-19 through Podcast and Other Digital Technologies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Wiki-demic: The Rise of Wikipedia in the Battle Against COVID-19 Disinformation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Day2:<\/strong>Jess Kolis, MPH, Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Chris Pernell, MD, MPH, FACPM, Chief Strategic Integration and Health Equity Officer, University Hospital, New York, NY.\u00a0 \u201cThe Tale of Two Americas: How Two Pandemics Collided and Cost Black and Brown Lives and the Racial and Health Justice Mandate to Save the Future by Every Means Necessary\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In addition to keynotes, each day will have panel discussions and invited speakers on:<\/p>\n WHERE<\/strong> WHO IS THE SYMPOSIUM FOR?<\/strong> R<\/u>egistration for this free symposium is now open at: https:\/\/nnlm.vfairs.com\/en\/registration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the health and information disparities in underserved and underrepresented communities. This includes ensuring equal understanding of accurate health information, education in hard hit communities, and valuing inclusion in clinical research to overcome COVID-19. The NNLM Virtual Symposium: Responding to the COVID-19 Infodemic is an opportunity to learn about, address, and combat\u00a0… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApril 8-9,2021
\nEach day starts at Noon EDT\/ 11:00a.m. CDT\/ 10:00a.m. MDT\/ 9:00a.m. PDT<\/p>\n
\nR<\/u>egistration for this free symposium is now open at: https:\/\/nnlm.vfairs.com\/en\/registration<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDay 1:<\/strong>
\nDr. Vin Gupta, MD, MPA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, WA
\nApproaching Normalcy: Forecasting the end of the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/p>\n
\nPresentation title forthcoming<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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\nDe-bunk to Pre-bunk: A Necessary Paradigm Shift for Addressing Health Misinformation<\/p>\n\n
\nSessions will be held in Zoom.<\/p>\n
\nThe Network for the National Library of Medicine invites anyone who is interested in learning more about information-related issues during COVID-19: health professionals, librarians, researchers, community-based organization staff, and students.<\/p>\n