Measuring the Burden of Infodemics: Summary of the Methods and Results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference.
Elisabeth WilhelmIsabella BallalaiMarie-Eve BelangerPeter BenjaminCatherine Bertrand-FerrandisSupriya BezbaruahSylvie C BriandIan BrooksRichard BrunsLucie M BucciNeville CallejaHoward ChiouAbhinav DevariaLorena DiniHyjel D'SouzaAdam G DunnJohannes C EichstaedtSilvia M A A EversNina H GobatGissler MikaIan Christian GonzalesAnatoliy GruzdSarah HessAtsuyoshi IshizumiOommen JohnAshish JoshiBenjamin F KaluzaNagwa KhamisMonika KosinskaShibani KulkarniDimitra LingriRamona LudolphTimothy K MackeyStefan Mandic-RajcevicFilippo MenczerVijaybabu MudaliarShruti MurthySyed NazakatTim NguyenJennifer NilsenElena PallariNatalia Pasternak TaschnerElena PetelosMitchell J PrinsteinJon RoozenbeekAnton SchneiderVaradharajan SrinivasanAleksandar StevanovicBrigitte StrahwaldShabbir Syed AbdulSandra Varaidzo MachiriSander van der LindenChristopher VoegeliClaire WardleOdette WegwarthBecky Kate WhiteEstelle WillieBrian YauTina D PurnatPublished in: JMIR infodemiology (2023)
Standardizing measurement is the basis for documenting the burden of infodemics on health systems and population health during emergencies. Investment is needed into the development of practical, affordable, evidence-based, and systematic methods that are legally and ethically balanced for monitoring infodemics; generating diagnostics, infodemic insights, and recommendations; and developing interventions, action-oriented guidance, policies, support options, mechanisms, and tools for infodemic managers and emergency program managers.