From growing anti-vaccine movements to HIV-deniers and climate skeptics, online health misinformation and disinformation fuels the rise of groups that mistrust scientific evidence, and spread their mi...
Seema Yasmin
Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor and author. She is Director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative at Stanford University where she teaches health and science journalism and studies the spread of misinformation and disinformation on health and science. Yasmin trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. She was formerly a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
Events IJF 2020
Vaccinating against misinfodemics: journalists and public health misinformation
In the field of global health, information quality crises can quickly escalate into public health crises, with grave consequences for both population health and trust in institutions more broadly. Wid...
