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Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

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Thursday, November 04, 2021

WHO: Infodemic Management News Flash Thursday 4 November 2021 #25

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My source: EPI-WIN maillist: From the website ...

 
 

Feature art

"Infodemic managers understand the potential for misinformation to grow rapidly and cause harm. There is evidence of rumours spreading quickly and impacting poorly on public health, public trust and vaccine acceptance. Yet every piece of viral misinformation starts small, as seen in the third frame above. At this stage, the little piece of misinformation looks innocent enough, all alone and quite innocuous. It probably doesn't have lots of social media interactions attached to it, it probably isn’t being shared very much.

Narrator: Friends, that little piece of misinformation had big plans

The image highlights why identifying information voids and emerging information hazards before they go viral is so important. If we can use the tools we have to listen to emerging concerns and questions and proactively identify information voids in conversations, we may be able to intervene early by filling in that conversation space in the third frame with high quality information before that piece of misinformation progresses to frame four. At WHO we are working with our partners on some useful tools for managing the COVID-19 infodemic. Keep an eye on the News Flash for more information."

Image credit: Man Martin/Manoverboard

I could instantly relate the image to the domains of Hodges' model as above.

Thursday, January 05, 2023

Call for Papers: The Science of Trust Initiative -


Building and Restoring Trust in Science and Health Information across Patient, Community and Population Settings

 
Message(s) to HIFA alerting to, and response to a Call for Papers:
 
----- Forwarded message -----
From: Neil Pakenham-Walsh <neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org>
To: HIFA - Healthcare Information For All <hifa@hifaforums.org>
Sent: Friday, 16 December 2022 at 12:11:19 GMT
Subject: [hifa] Call for papers: Building and restoring trust in science and health information across patient, community and population Settings

I am forwarding this from our colleagues at Infodemic Management News, WHO.

Opportunities for action Call for papers: Building and restoring trust in science and health information across patient, community and population Settings

The Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health seeks to solicit diverse perspectives and build a robust evidence base for a special issue on trust and misinformation as part of the journal’s Science of Trust Initiative. This special issue will explore topics across different health communication areas aimed at addressing issues fuelled by misinformation such as mistrust, social discrimination, and pervasive stigma. There is specific interest in submissions related to the science of trust that focus on interdisciplinary collaborations to promote social, policy, and/or behavioral change, address key root causes of health inequities, and can help forge the path forward for building and fostering trust. A good opportunity to showcase your latest achievements or research in infodemic management!

To read the call for papers and submit, it’s here. The deadline is 26 February 2022.

Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator Healthcare Information For All Global Healthcare Information Network Working in Official Relations with the World Health Organization 20,000 members, 400 supporting organisations, 180 countries, 6 forums, 4 languages www.hifa.org neil AT hifa.org


----- Forwarded message -----
From: Neil Pakenham-Walsh <neil.pakenham-walsh@ghi-net.org>
To: HIFA - Healthcare Information For All <hifa@hifaforums.org>
Sent: Friday, 30 December 2022 at 10:06:18 GMT
Subject: [hifa] Call for papers: Building and restoring trust in science and health information across patient, community and population settings (4)

Dear Najeeb, Meena and all,

Najeeb: "I think this is a golden opportunity for HIFA to publish an article (possibly written by a number of key people in HIFA) and provide a leading statement that emphasizes the role of communication (good quality information) in healthcare for all." https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/call-papers-building-and-restoring-trust-science-and-health-information-across-patient

Meena: "Very nice idea Najeeb and happy to be part of this project." https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/call-papers-building-and-restoring-trust-science-and-health-information-3-hifa-paper

Yes indeed, the call for papers is specifically about 'Building and restoring trust in science and health information'. HIFA is uniquely positioned to explore this issue through dynamic multidisciplinary discussion.

My initial thought is that this could be done within the framework of our current collaboration with WHO and specifically the consultation we are planning for 2023: 'To identify best practices, opportunities and challenges from relevant health related stakeholders, towards pursuing universal access to reliable healthcare information'. https://www.hifa.org/projects/hifa-who-collaboration-plan Lack of trust is a huge challenge and it requires engagement from all stakeholders.

I would like to invite HIFA members and supporting organisations to comment and suggest next steps.

Best wishes, Neil

Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh


----- Forwarded message -----
From: Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Jordan <shorbajin@gmail.com>
To: HIFA - Healthcare Information For All <hifa@hifaforums.org>
Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2022 at 22:12:50 GMT
Subject: [hifa] Call for papers: Building and restoring trust in science and health information across patient, community and population settings (5) HIFA-WHO Collaboration

Dear Neil and all members of HIFA family

Happy New Year. The suggestion to invite comments from HIFA members is a logical one and fully supported. HIFA current collaboration with WHO should really be highlighted in this piece especially that WHO and HIFA have both a mission to make high quality information available and accessible by the world. Good quality, timely and accurate health information provided to people is the best prevention, protection and leads to good treatment of diseases. Hopefully this will make heath goals much more attainable. Lets go for it friends.

With kind regards.

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, PhD, IAHSI

... Website: www.shorbaji.net Director, Knowledge, Ethics and Research WHO/HQ (Retired) e-Marefa Advisor President, Jordan Library and Information Association President, eHealth Development Association, Jordan President, Middle East and North Africa Association of Health Informatics IMIA Vice-President for MEDINFO 2023 Visiting Professor, Ain Shams University, Egypt Member of the International Academy of Pubic Health Scientific Council ORCID ID 0000-0003-3843-8430

----- Forwarded message -----
From: Peter Jones, UK <hifa@hifaforums.org>
To: HIFA - Healthcare Information For All <hifa@hifaforums.org>
Sent: Sunday, 1 January 2023 at 15:45:42 GMT
Subject: [hifa] Call for papers: Building and restoring trust in science and health information across patient, community and population settings (6) Hodges' model and information disorder

As highlighted before on HIFA over many years, Hodges' model can inform such a call for papers and project.

In several ways, including but not limited to - critique and representation of data, information, knowledge, wisdom (literacies - across all academic and professional disciplines):

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.
Jones, P. (1996) An overarching theory of health communication? Health Informatics Journal,2,1,28-34.

Additional citation: IRMS Bulletin - November 2022
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2022/12/irms-230-h2cm-literacies.htm

"I am indebted to Peter Jones, who shared Hodges’ Health Career Model with the 2022 IRMS conference in Glasgow. Although originally used in a healthcare setting, this simple, two-axis intellectual model can be readily used to analyse any complex interaction between the individual and their environment – in this case, information literacies.

The diagram shows a number of distinct yet overlapping literacies that were potentially in play in our problem example, although there are likely to be many more – even emotional literacy played a part, with the frustrations of the young people in question causing them to dismiss potential solutions before they had been tried or even considered. Likewise, socio-political and socio-economic literacies may have been a factor – if you are unaware that something exists in the world due to blind-spots in your own cultural background then you cannot even begin to look for it."

Jon Fryer, "Information Literacies - Learning, to thrive in a digital age". IRMS Bulletin, Issue 230, November 2022. cc c (A membership journal)

During the summer and the "Communicating health research" thread on HIFA, I thought about 'information disorder' and the infodemic:

https://rm.coe.int/information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-researc/168076277c [*see note below] I recalled this quote too - amid 'information overload'.

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” ― T.S. Eliot, The Rock

As the evidence-base 'accumulates' there may be a questions about the life-cycle of research?

From implementation science to deimplementation: Patey et al. Implementation Science (2018) 13:134 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0826-6

As an 'ecosystem' is it imperative that one (or more) part of 'data, information KNOWLEDGE wisdom' must wither on the academic (vine) database - reduced citation hence salience?

The aims and scope of a paper may also encompass the public's understanding of science. Frameworks and models of care/selfcare are needed that can simultaneously:

"... differentiate between science writing for the public and writing across communities of scientific practice. Described by its editors as an interdisciplinary journal, they argue it is a ‘transdisciplinary journal’"

from -Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet, Orli Wolfson, Roy Yosef, Noam Chapnik, Adi Brill, and Elad Segev. Jargon Use in Public Understanding of Science Papers over Three Decades. Public Understanding of Science, 29(6) (August 2020): 644–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520940501.

Hodges' model being situated can be used in contexts that are inter- multi- transdisciplinary and interprofessional (education).

If I can assist I'd be pleased to proof read, critique drafts, provide a figure / table using Hodges' model to illustrate the conceptual scope and associations of the work.

I may have also referred to agnotology - the study of ignorance, this should (must?) be a concurrent factor in research of literacy. If anyone has time to please read and comment on a near complete draft paper on: COVID-19, technology, society, Hodges' model, fake news misinformation dis- mal- also I'd be very grateful.

[ Since this message was posted to HIFA, I greatly appreciate an offer to read the draft, which should be complete mid-end of February ]

Happy New Year to all - wherever celebrated.

Peter Jones
Community Mental Health Nurse and Researcher
Warrington Recovery Team, NW England
http://twitter.com/h2cm

The call for papers link again:
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/science-trust-initiative/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPG15743

[*Note from HIFA moderator (NPW): Many thanks Peter, this publication looks interesting. The first paragraph of the executive summary sets the scene: 'This report is an attempt to comprehensively examine information disorder and its related challenges, such as filter bubbles and echo chambers. While the historical impact of rumours and fabricated content have been well documented, we argue that contemporary social technology means that we are witnessing something new: information pollution at a global scale; a complex web of motivations for creating, disseminating and consuming these ‘polluted’ messages; a myriad of content types and techniques for amplifying content; innumerable platforms hosting and reproducing this content; and breakneck speeds of communication between trusted peers.' I have invited the authors to join us.]

Sunday, June 28, 2020

1st WHO Infodemiology Conference - Online

WHO 1st  Infodemiology Conference (Image:WHO/Sam Bradd)

My source: HIFA

We are excited for the WHO Infodemiology pre-conference webinar line up on Monday!

There are over 3500 people registered from 151 countries and territories!

We have arranged for the webinar to be interpreted into French and Spanish.

If you have friends and networks that would be interested in infodemic management and speak Spanish or French, please invite them! They can still register here:

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/06/29/default-calendar/pre-conference-1st-who-infodemiology-conference

If zoom room reaches capacity, we have prepared an alternate way that you will be able to watch as you connect. Everyone will be available to participate in the *meeting via Slido* ask questions, discuss, and participate in polls.

*The promotional materials, programme and speaker bios will be available* in the event booklet on the public google drive for the event:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/170OrpJG89r4aPmKNE4L5iquIDMxOS4_p?usp=sharing

*The fun starts on Monday, 29 June, at 13:00 Geneva time sharp!*

Kindest regards,

Tina, Lis, Margaux, Stefano, Jianfang and Tim
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Tina D. Purnat

Temporarily also supporting the WHO COVID-19 infodemic response pillar, see
www.who.int/epi-win

Technical Officer, Digital Health Technologies
Department of Digital Health & Innovation
Science Division | World Health Organization | Avenue Appia 20, 1202
Geneva, Switzerland

Banner: WHO/Sam Bradd
 

Thursday, August 07, 2025

'Finding the Signal through the Noise' - WHO EARS

It is deprived communities who desperately want to do their best for family, but struggle to have access to and make sense of many sources of information. News and information not just through 'traditional' channels, but social media. Trying to be objective, non-judgemental it can still be surprising how TVs and smartphones are the key personal and furniture items.

Outside of London, Liverpool has a low uptake of immunisation against measles:

Liverpool, now has cases and a child's death from measles:

https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/public-health-liverpool/measles-on-the-increase/

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/alder-heys-plea-after-child-32050189

Located in-between, I often visit Manchester and Liverpool. I wonder now if I should visit Liverpool less. My daughter and her partner expecting their second child have a decision to make next year.

I noticed on X a reference to 'social listening'. This was missed while drafting a paper on COVID, technology, social media and information disorder. More positively, work on 'infodemic' was captured and posted. 

Blowing the dust of another draft, I will reassess this stream of work and seek specific literature, especially contributions to improved outcomes - public (mental) health.


McGowan B. S. (2022). World Health Organization's Early AI-supported Response with Social Listening Platform. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 110(2), 273–275. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2022.1398

See also:

Fryer, Jon. “Information Literacies – Learning, to Thrive in a Digital Age” IRMS Bulletin 230 (2022): 16-21.

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.

Sunday, December 05, 2021

Draft paper: Abstract - "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model"

"Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model"


Abstract

 

This descriptive paper explores technology, society and the COVID pandemic, curated through a generic conceptual framework: Hodges' model. Developed in health and education, the model provides an underlying structure and four care, or knowledge domains. Each domain can represent part of what would formally and globally be recognised as curricula. Of four prompts leading to the model's creation, one was to facilitate reflection and critical thinking. The COVID-19 pandemic makes Hodges' model an ideal tool to expatiate its socio-political and individual mental health impacts and technoscientific reponse. This will be demonstrated by using the model to reflect and critique the paper’s themes, exposing conceptual content, dependencies, relationships, stand-points, issues and opportunities. The pandemic has crystalised the irony of the 'information age' and a concurrent gift of an 'infodemic'. In response the paper's focus is the experiential impact of misinformation, fake news, ignorance, and literacies.

To begin, Hodges' model is introduced, then COVID, followed by society and technology in combination, an approach based on previous work that Hodges' model affords. Incorporated in Hodges' model, the political domain invites and facilitates dialectic critique. The model is situated, a product of the combination of structure and potential content. The awareness of various polarities, dualities, and dichotomies inculcates recognition of the 'middle' in whatever context the model is applied. This endows Hodges' model with a substrate inherently suited to deliberation and argumentation, namely, for example, subjective-objective, qualitative-quantitative, person-population, arts-sciences, demand-supply and dependent-independent dualities. The application of the model is explained with several examples, to reveal the convention for committing the model to paper. As will be evident, the author is located in the United Kingdom, but continues to seek - as with this work - a global perspective.


Keywords: COVID; technology; society; conceptual framework; Hodges’ model; ignorance

Awaiting news!

Thursday, March 03, 2022

"Information Disorder:" c/o Wardle and Derakhshan (2017) The transmission of ritual ...

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“The transmission view of communication is the commonest in our culture — perhaps in all industrial cultures... It is defined by terms such as ‘imparting,’ ‘sending,’ ‘transmitting,’ or ‘giving information to others.’ ...


... The ‘ritual view of communication’, by contrast, is not about “the act of imparting information but the representation of shared beliefs.” pp.14-15.


 

Wardle, Claire, and Hossein Derakhshan. 2017. “Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy Making.” 162317GBR. Council of Europe. https://edoc.coe.int/en/media/7495-information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-research-and-policy-making.html.

Previously:

WHO: Infodemic Management News Flash Thursday 4 November 2021 #25
 


Thursday, November 18, 2021

Social media: Sanity saver or Mischief maker..?

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"The Mercury Project is a global consortium of researchers dedicated to combating the impacts of mis- and disinformation on public health and to finding interventions that support the spread and uptake of accurate health information."


 

My source: https://twitter.com/ssrc_org/status/1460619132437774337?s=20

See previous posts:

WHO: Infodemic Management News Flash Thursday 4 November 2021 #25

COVID: Logic is the patient - again..

'Hermes'

Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.

 

Monday, October 24, 2022

Paper: "Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa" + Noma

Earlier this month in draft papers iii I mentioned a lengthy draft 12k words ... "Society, Technology and COVID19 in Hodges' model" which needs revision (COVID-19 waits for no person):

"COVID's source, global spread, national responses, and management are politicised; a memetic and geopolitical viral response (Kavanagh, Singh and Pillinger, 2021). The hope remains that globally we will get a grip of COVID and learn collectively; even as politics is in play (The Lancet. 2021). COVID revealed itself as signs and symptoms were reported and aggregated, patterns identified, and advice modified accordingly. Routine news was interrupted by a daily round of COVID briefings by governments, their representatives and
experts. Charts and statistics were presented, numbers crunched (mechanistically, of course). Some governments, in denial, face a legal charge. Comparisons of national cases and deaths are ongoing, hard truths (proverbial ‘cock-ups’) explained away — rationalised. The global distribution of COVID vaccinations, influenza and booster jabs, lays bare colonial traces of inequity and inequality. A further twist of the south and north seasonal oscillation.

COVID-19 is striking, simultaneously creating opacity and transparency. Accentuated and aggravated by populist governments, COVID is now marked as a pandemic and infodemic (Cinelli, et al, 2020). Post hoc governments and academia must understand the societal and cultural ramifications of news generation, dissemination, and outcomes."
Socio-technical approaches feature on this blog, in a published paper (bibliography) and in Hodges' model. Socio-Technical can help assure success but they must be tempered - shaped - by taking into consideration the individual (user's) psychology, benefit; and the political aspects - what are the costs, collective benefits and governance?

The following paper stood out on twitter (COVID-19 is not a laggard in keeping pace with robots it seems) and will inform my update of the above:

Platzky Miller, J., Sander, A. and Srinivasan, S. (2022), Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa. Dev Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12734

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logic(s)?
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Fear - COVID-19

attitudes - receptivity
(Expectations: now - future?
Such actions spoil/taint technology.)

individual psychology

the 'user' (active/passive..)

socio-TECHNICAL

robots

digital solutions
track and trace apps and vaccine passports
(rate of failure)

Life - Bio-Sciences

TECHNO-

SOCIO-technical

Societies

Sustainable Development (Goals?)

Social development, history

Logics of control, extraction and legitimation

Social Determinants of Health

OPPORTUNISM

Political role of
public health emergencies in Africa

Rwandan government
ZoraBots, a Belgian company

Commercial Determinants of Health

Colonialism: control, power

Governance

Neglected Neglected diseases - Noma?

My source:


Plus: Re. Noma ...

Ioana Cismas (York) - What's in a Frame? A Human Rights Approach to Neglected Tropical Diseases - https://www.york.ac.uk/cahr/events/2022/justice-in-global-health-workshop/

https://philevents.org/event/show/101162

Concept Note in Support of the Inclusion of Noma (Cancrum Oris) on the World Health Organization List of Neglected Tropical Diseases (Commissioned by the Government of Namibia, 2016), 6 pp. (with Marie-Solène Adamou Moussa-Pham).

Srour, M. L., & Baratti-Mayer, D. (2020). Why is noma a neglected-neglected tropical disease?. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 14(8), e0008435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008435

Friday, December 23, 2022

What precedes/follows mis- dis- malinformation, fake news...?

"Sartori (1970: 1034) put it well when he wrote almost fifty years ago: ‘We badly need information which is sufficiently precise to be meaningfully comparable. Hence we need a filing system provided by discriminating, i.e., taxonomic, conceptual containers. If these are not provided, data misgathering is inevitable; and statistical, computerized sophistication is no remedy for misinformation.’ Turnheim et al. (2015) agree when they write that a structured dialogue among practitioners of different approaches is needed to better understand processes and pathways of sociotechnical change. Similar calls for more inclusive, comparative, cross-disciplinary research have come recently from many researchers (e.g. Castree, 2016; Sovacool et al., 2015; Stern et al., 2016; Viseu, 2015; Webster, 2016)." p.704.

"Borrowing from a mix of disciplines, including history, evolutionary economics, institutional theory and STS, the approach suggests that diffusion or transitions occurs through interactions among three levels: the niche, the regime, and the landscape. The niche refers to a radical innovation that is emerging to gain diffusion or adoption, to move from invention and innovation to viable market introduction (Grin et al., 2010). The regime refers to the incumbent sociotechnical system that the niche is potentially affecting or replacing; such regimes contain cognitive, regulative, and normative institutions (Geels, 2004). The ‘landscape’ refers to exogenous developments or shocks (e.g. economic crises, demographic changes, wars, ideological change, major environmental disruption like climate change) that create pressures on the regime, which in turn create windows of opportunity for the diffusion of niche-innovations."

Sovacool, B. K., & Hess, D. J. (2017). Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change. Social Studies of Science, 47(5), 703–750. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717709363

"Users online tend to acquire information adhering to their worldviews, to ignore dissenting information and to form polarized groups around shared narratives. Furthermore, when polarization is high, misinformation might easily proliferate."

Cinelli, M., Quattrociocchi, W., Galeazzi, A. et al. The COVID-19 social media infodemic. Sci Rep 10, 16598 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73510-5
[Reference numbers removed in quotation.]

 See also:

'landscape'

'socio-technical'

'habitus'

Sunday, November 30, 2025

Invitation to EPI-WIN webinar: 1 Dec, on UNiTE to end digital violence ...

... why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

UNiTE to end digital violence:
why digital safety is a gender and public
health imperative in emergencies

We are delighted to invite you to join our webinar on #UNiTE to end digital violence, on 1 December 2025, 13.00 CET (geneva time), with Ms Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur for violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dr Stella Chungong, Director and Chair of the WHO Health Emergencies Gender Working Group, and voices of community experiences.  

Please do join the discussion and share widely.


Title: UNiTE to end digital violence: why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

Time and Date: 13:00 – 14:30 CET (Geneva), Monday, 1 December 2025

Registration: https://bit.ly/4prKGeu

Webpage: WHO EPI-WIN webinar: UNiTE to end digital violence: why digital safety is a gender and public health imperative in emergencies

Digital violence, such as doxxing, deepfakes, and online harassment, poses significant public health risks. Millions of women, girls, and adolescents face harassment, stalking, and threats in digital spaces meant for connection.

In crisis settings, these digital threats create multiple challenges. Understand what they are and why it is important to integrate digital safety into humanitarian health responses.

Tentative Agenda and Speakers

Welcome/Opening remarks: Digital safety as a public health imperative in crises:  Dr Stella Chungong, Director, Department of Health Emergency Preparedness & Chair, WHE Gender Working Group

Preparedness begins with protection: why digital violence must be addressed in humanitarian health work: Dr Stella Chungong, Director, Department of Health Emergency Preparedness & Chair, WHE Gender Working Group

UNFPA perspective from Executive Director, UNFPA: delivered by Dr Eugene Kongyuy, Deputy Director of Humanitarian Response Division to represent the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

Keynote address: Ms Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences

Risk communication, community engagement and infodemic management: digital violence as a driver of misinformation: Dr Kai Von Harbou, Unit Head, Community Protection & Resilience, WHO 

Surviving Digital Violence: DR Millie Phiri, journalist, researcher and author on digital violence

Community Voice:  Ms Sohaila Shamseldeen, Youth and Development Coordinator, Etijah