Improving Understanding of and Response to Infodemics During Public Health Emergencies

Tara Kirk Sell¹, Divya Hosangadi¹, Marc Trotochaud¹+3

• ¹Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, is a Senior Scholar; Divya Hosangadi, MSPH, is a Senior Analyst; and Marc Trotochaud, MSPH, is an Analyst; all at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, MD. Divya Hosangadi and Marc Trotochaud are also Research Associates, and Tara Kirk Sell is also an Assistant Professor; all in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Tina D. Purnat, MS, is a Technical Officer, Digital Health Technologies, Digital Health and Innovation, Science Division; Tim Nguyen, MPH, is Unit Head, High Impact Events Preparedness, and Sylvie Briand, MD, PhD, MPH, is Director; Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness, WHO Emergency Preparedness; all at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. The views expressed in this paper are the authors alone and do not represent the views of the authors' respective organizations.