TY - JOUR
T1 - An anti-infodemic virtual center for the Americas
AU - Brooks, Ian
AU - D’Agostino, Marcelo
AU - Marti, Myrna
AU - McDowell, Kate
AU - Mejia, Felipe
AU - Betancourt-Cravioto, Miguel
AU - Gatzke, Lisa
AU - Hicks, Elaine
AU - Kyser, Rebecca
AU - Leicht, Kevin
AU - dos Santos, Eliane Pereira
AU - Saw, Jessica Jia Wen
AU - Tomio, Ailin
AU - Saiso, Sebastian Garcia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Pan American Health Organization. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center for the Americas (AIVCA) is a project led by the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, PAHO and the Center for Health Informatics, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on Information Systems for Health, at the University of Illinois, with the participation of PAHO staff and consultants across the region. Its goal is to develop a set of tools—pairing AI with human judgment—to help ministries of health and related health institutions respond to infodemics. Public health officials will learn about emerging threats detected by the center and get recommendations on how to respond. The virtual center is structured with three parallel teams: detection, evidence, and response. The detection team will employ a mixture of advanced search queries, machine learning, and other AI techniques to sift through more than 800 million new public social media posts per day to identify emerging infodemic threats in both English and Spanish. The evidence team will use the EasySearch federated search engine backed by AI, PAHO’s knowledge management team, and the Librarian Reserve Corps to identify the most relevant authoritative sources. The response team will use a design approach to communicate recommended response strategies based on behavioural science, storytelling, and information design approaches.
AB - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center for the Americas (AIVCA) is a project led by the Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, PAHO and the Center for Health Informatics, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on Information Systems for Health, at the University of Illinois, with the participation of PAHO staff and consultants across the region. Its goal is to develop a set of tools—pairing AI with human judgment—to help ministries of health and related health institutions respond to infodemics. Public health officials will learn about emerging threats detected by the center and get recommendations on how to respond. The virtual center is structured with three parallel teams: detection, evidence, and response. The detection team will employ a mixture of advanced search queries, machine learning, and other AI techniques to sift through more than 800 million new public social media posts per day to identify emerging infodemic threats in both English and Spanish. The evidence team will use the EasySearch federated search engine backed by AI, PAHO’s knowledge management team, and the Librarian Reserve Corps to identify the most relevant authoritative sources. The response team will use a design approach to communicate recommended response strategies based on behavioural science, storytelling, and information design approaches.
KW - Americas
KW - COVID-19
KW - Public Health Informatics
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - communication
KW - social media
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U2 - 10.26633/RPSP.2023.5
DO - 10.26633/RPSP.2023.5
M3 - Article
C2 - 36909802
AN - SCOPUS:85152202961
SN - 1020-4989
VL - 47
JO - Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health
JF - Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health
ER -