Dans le cadre d'un processus de recrutement pour un poste de professeur(e) en santé mondiale, le Département de médecine sociale et préventive (DMSP) organisera des présentations publiques des candidat(e)s.

Dans ce cadre, le DMSP recevra David Scales le 8 décembre.

Vendredi 8 décembre 2023 de 11 h 45 à 12 h 45

Local 3019 - 7101 avenue du Parc (3e étage)

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The Toxins We Carry: Tackling medical misinformation beyond COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

As the internet and social media have developed and matured, our information environments have dramatically changed, emerging as a clear social determinant of health. We are all information consumers, but online platforms have enabled us to be information producers as well. Health information—and misinformation—now spreads globally at unprecedented speed and scale, precipitating what the WHO has called an "infodemic," an abundance of information of variable quality impeding our ability to distinguish truth from fiction. In this talk, I will describe how epidemiological and environmental public health frameworks can be applied to prevent, detect, and mitigate infodemics locally and globally and highlight what interventions are likely to be effective in various contexts. I will describe my research adapting motivational interviewing, a counseling technique with effectiveness in countering health misperceptions, to online community settings.

Biographie du conférencier : Dr David Scales is an internal medicine hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. His research focuses on how structural factors affect our information environments to allow misinformation to propagate and misconceptions to persist. Dr. Scales’ work leverages qualitative and quantitative methods to address the problem of health-related misinformation, training “infodemiologists” to build Covid-19 vaccine confidence in online communities by adapting motivational interviewing to online community settings. In 2016, he co-founded of Health for Palestine, a community health worker project focused on diabetes and hypertension in refugee camps in Bethlehem in the West Bank, called by the Berkeley Center for Human Rights "the most tear-gassed place in the world." Dr. Scales received his MD and PhD from Yale University, where his sociology dissertation examined how the World Health Organization seeks to control the spread of diseases across international borders. He completed a primary care Internal Medicine residency at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Scales holds a certificate of medical interpretation in Levantine Colloquial Arabic from U. Mass Amherst.