Webinar
How to Protect the Health of the Public in an Era of Misinformation
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
1:00PM – 2:00PM
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How to Protect the Health of the Public in an Era of Misinformation.
Americans are deluged by a steady barrage of Information about health and medicine. Much of it is useful, but much is untrustworthy, even malicious. How can physicians and other healthcare professionals, as well as the public itself sort through the information noise in order to not be harmed by misinformation and even disinformation?
As a teaching strategy, the Education Committee of the FNLM decided to choose 4 complicated topics, each one of which continues to be a hot, often divisive topic, riddled with misinformation of potential harm to the health of the public.
The 4 topics chosen: vaccines; diabetes and obesity; nutritional supplements; and social media..
We present one keynote expert in each to address a frequent premise. The presentation may be either pro, con, or neutral-balanced. What is accurate and trustworthy? What is misinformation? What is the best way to proceed?
Framing Overview and Program Plan
Welcome and Introduction: A leader of the FNLM
George D. Lundberg, MD, ScD
Framing the issue and providing context
Jeanne Marrazzo MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH
Vaccines, There are far too many vaccines and vaccinations that, on balance, do more harm than good.
Peter Marks, MD, PhD; Director – Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US FDA
Nutritional Supplements, The current US policy of easy availability of nutritional supplements without FDA approval is seriously harmful to the health of the public.
Tod Cooperman, MD. Founder and President, ConsumerLab.com
Obesity and Diabetes, Now that effective new drugs to prevent and treat obesity are plentiful, the epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes will soon be winding down.
Gary Taubes, Investigative science and health journalist
Social Media: Social media, “writ large”, represents a clear and present danger to the mental health and well-being of underage users.
Dan Romer PhD, Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvani
Closing remarks
Andrew Balas, MD, PhD & George D Lundberg, MD. Recap, discuss, summarize and close.
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Speaker Biographies
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Andrew Balas MD, PhD Andrew Balas MD, PhD is a Professor of Public Health at Augusta University, Vice President of the Friends of the NIH National Library of Medicine, member of the American College of Medical Informatics and elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts… |
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Dan Romer PhD Director of Research, The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania. Dan Romer (PhD) is a psychologist by background with a career focused on the role of the media as an influence on adolescent mental and behavioral health… |
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Gary Taubes PhD Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist. He is a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science… |
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George D. Lundberg MD Editor in Chief A 1995 “pioneer” of the medical Internet, Dr. Lundberg was born in Florida in 1933… |
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Jeanne Marrazzo MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH… |
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Peter Marks MD, PhD Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA… |
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Tod Cooperman MD Nationally recognized researcher, writer, and speaker on consumer healthcare issues… |
