An anti-infodemic virtual center for the Americas

Author:

Brooks Ian12,D’Agostino Marcelo3,Marti Myrna3,McDowell Kate1,Mejia Felipe3,Betancourt-Cravioto Miguel3,Gatzke Lisa4,Hicks Elaine5,Kyser Rebecca1,Leicht Kevin6,Pereira dos Santos Eliane3,Saw Jessica Jia-Wen4,Tomio Ailin7,Garcia Saiso Sebastian3

Affiliation:

1. Center for Health Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

2. ianb@illinois.edu

3. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C. United States of America

4. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

5. The Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, United States of America

6. Department of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States of America

7. Mind, Behavior and Development Unit, World Bank, Washington, D.C. United States of America

Abstract

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.

Publisher

Pan American Health Organization

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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