In partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and BBC Media Action, Internews is participating in the media and journalism track of the 3rd Virtual Global WHO Infodemic Conference entitled “Whole-of-Society Challenges and Solutions to Respond to Infodemics.” 

The WHO defines an Infodemic as “an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an epidemic, making it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when it is most needed.”

The objective of the conference is to bring together all segments of society to find a truly multi-sectorial approach to managing Infodemics. Your media and journalism experience is needed to help ‘repair’ and ‘prepare’ the media’s response to the Infodemic. No matter your role in the media industry, your opinion can help shape the future of journalism during the next pandemic.

Session 2 – The Solution: Infodemics & the Media – preparing for the future

Wednesday, Dec 9 – 14:00 – 16:00 CET

Your participation in this session will help create solutions, tools and a commitment for responding to the next Infodemic.

Part 1 (14:00 – 15:00 CET) is a roundtable discussion between global leaders in media and journalism.

•  Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer, Polk and Peabody award winning author, speaker and columnist (United States)
• Esther Nakkazi, Freelance journalist and convener of Health Journalism Network Uganda – HEJNU (Uganda)
• Additional international media experts
• Moderator: Genevieve Hutchinson, BBC Media Action

Part 2 (15:00 – 16:00 CET) will include “Prepare Cafe” breakout sessions. Participants (you) will be randomly chosen to participate through separate calendar invites.

Session 1 of the conference