Updates and New Stuff
Noteworthy announcements on what I’ve been doing lately.
Check out my appearance on the podcast “Since You Put It That Way”
I was honored to chat with Dr. Mary Louder, a Michigan-based doctor of osteopathic medicine with more than 30 years of experience providing integrative primary care to patients with complex medical problems. We talked about health mis-, mal- and disinformation: how to identify it, why it spreads, and how to stop it. As our country grapples to maintain effective and sensical public health policies, understanding what’s real and what’s “clickbait” is more crucial than ever.
New Research Published
During the COVID pandemic, my co-author and I wondered about the true power of social media: do unsponsored, personal posts by your friends and family influence your own beliefs and attitudes about health behaviors? And does loneliness or isolation change that influence?
I was so pleased to speak with the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science group Friday., Nov. 15, 2024. Librarians play a key role in stopping the spread of health-related mis-, mal- and disinformation.
New research published
Supporting someone through a chronic illness can be difficult. My multi-university team is designing and testing an online training module for support providers, to teach things like person-centered messaging, active listening, and the dangers of providing unsolicited advice. Part of this ongoing work was recently published in Health Communication.
Through the Center for Health Communication at UT-Austin, I created a FREE online training module for the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute about health misinformation: what it is, why it’s tempting to believe, and how to talk with people who might buy into it.