Media in the Age of Contagions
Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Description
Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.
At this symposium on “Media in the Age of Contagions,” journalists who have covered public and global health for print, television, radio, and digital media outlets including NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, STAT, and more discussed the role of the media when an outbreak occurs, and the dangers of rumors and disinformation.
This event was free and open to the public.
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Agenda
9:30 – 10:00am, Registration
10:00 – 10:10am, Welcome Remarks
10:10 – 10:30am, Keynote Address
10:30 – 11:45am, Panel 1: The Risk of Rumors and Disinformation
11:45am – 12:00pm, Break
12:00 – 1:00pm, Panel 2: Challenges and Opportunities in Covering Infectious Disease Outbreaks
1:00pm, Closing Remarks
This session was sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI); the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Outbreak Week was organized by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), in partnership with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, with support from the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University; the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Common Spaces | the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center at Harvard University; the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture; the Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine; the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University; and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.