Public health is a realm of science and fact and deals in matters of life and death. The pandemic brought misinformation about health to new levels, fostering lingering distrust of public health ...

Technology advances every industry. Scientific research utilizing computers produces breakthroughs that advance medicine and ultimately benefit the world. Marie Camacho is a futuristic thinker, she ...

JMIR Infodemiology Editor-in-Chief: Tim Ken Mackey, MAS, PhD welcomes submissions to a special theme issue “Exploring the Intersection Between Health Information, Disinformation, and Generative AI ...

(Toronto, September 21, 2023) The United Nations General Assembly held a high-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response on September 20, 2023, to continue discussions on ...

Analyzing the distribution, or epidemiology, of foodborne illnesses is a standard tool in controlling outbreaks, but infodemiology – the analysis of information distributed on the internet – could ...

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants has been a source of mounting concern to governments and public health authorities worldwide. A new variant ...

The term “infodemiology” can be described as the science of distribution and determinants of information both online in an electronic format, such as the internet as well as offline within a ...

The World Health Organization is holding an “infodemiology” conference to develop evidence-based practices to detect and respond to mis-and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific ...

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Herman Wasserman has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the World Health Organization's (WHO) first infodemiology conference. Wasserman is a ...

A new study analyzing global Google Trends data from January 2004 to August 2025 finds that online search interest in "crisis hotline" has increased sharply in recent years and tends to rise in the ...