WHO Call for Applications: 1st Training in infodemic management
The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing activities to support the country pandemic preparedness and to mitigate the current COVID-19 pandemic which is accompanied by an infodemic. There is an urgent need to address the infodemic accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic, as most countries are battling both. As the world seeks to accelerate the development of medical countermeasures including treatments and safe, effective vaccines, as well as introduced public health measures, misinformation about both has been spreading and growing. For all these reasons WHO is offering the 1st WHO training in infodemic management, an online training over 4 weeks, from November 3 to 27, 2020.
Objectives of the training:
- Build a curriculum and apply it in delivering a training of the 1st cohort of cross-disciplinary infodemic managers that can be deployed to the field for infodemic response;
- Build up the skills of health authority staff in infodemic management;
- Offer opportunity for UN staff to learn about infodemic management;
- Become the basis for creating future infodemic training facility training modules.
Applications are open to freelance consultants, national health authority staff and United Nations staff who meet the selection criteria to constitute the cohort of trained infodemic managers that support response in countries.
After the training
- the staff of UN and health authorities will apply the gained skills in national response to the infodemic and support the development of networks for skill sharing;
- those trainees who are freelance consultants will be included in WHO pool of suitably qualified consultants to support national response in infodemic management through technical assistance assignments in countries.
Eligibility criteria:
Professionals working in the following areas:
- Epidemiology
- Risk communication and community engagement
- Health service delivery/health care workers
- Digital health
- Policy-makers (in health and intersectoral)
- UN staff
Criteria for eligibility:
- Have work experience of 10+ years in at least two areas of the above areas at sub/national or international level, or 5+ years and advanced agree
- Previous experience working in multicultural settings and workplaces
- Desirable: previous exposure to implementation science or research, or evaluation of programmes
- Demonstrated interest or experience in misinformation topics
Read more here.
Deadline for submission October 18, 2020, 18:00 CET.
