Webinar 1: Trust and pandemics
Date: 25 January 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted trust as an important determinant of successful pandemic response and leadership; a prerequisite for the uptake of interventions and behaviour change among communities; and a contributing factor in community resilience. WHO will host a series of webinars in which discussants will "unpack" some of the dimensions of trust in the context of epidemics and pandemics. The first webinar in the series will review the lessons learned at the intersection of trust and different responses to health emergencies including HIV, Ebola and COVID-19
Speakers：
- Dr Sylvie Briand, Director, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, WHO
- Prof Oyewale Tomori, Professor of Virology at Redeemer’s University and past President of the Nigerian Academy of Science
- Andy Seale, Technical Officer, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes WHO
- Thomas J. Bollyky, Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University
- Dr Zubaida Haque, Member at the Independent SAGE UK, Former CEO, The Equality Trust
- Prof Lucille Blumberg, Honorary Consultant for the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Chair of WHO STAG-IH
Webinar 2: The shifting landscape of trust history, leadership & communities,
Date: 17 February 2023
Objective:
The 2nd webinar in the series will examine historical trust infrastructures that build and maintain trust within communities such as culture, language, ethnicity, tradition, story-telling and, traditional forms of medicine. With this historical backdrop, discussants will explore how community trust infrastructures today can be supported in times of crisis.
Discussants:
- Prof Sanjoy Battacharya, Professor of Medical and Global Health Histories, University of Leeds, UK
- Honourable Ela Gandhi, Trustee, Gandhi Development Trust and Co-President of Religions for Peace, South Africa
- Dr Gefra Fulane, Anthropologist, Coordinator, Research and Capacity Strengthening, Community Engagement and Accountability Unit, IFRC Geneva
Webinar 3: The digital information ecosystem and trust
Date: 15 March 2023
In this webinar discussants will cover issues around infodemics, mis and dis-information, and how trust can be built and maintained in the context of the current digital information ecosystem.
Facilitator: Tina Purnat, World Health Organization
Speakers:
- Alejandro Posada, Lead Social Scientist for the Rooted in Trust project at INTERNEWS
- Neil Johnson, Head of the Online Dynamic Networks Lab at George Washington University, USA
- Mariana Diaz Garcia, Fellow and Project Officer at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
- Alla Keselman, Senior Social Science Analyst, National Library of Medicine, USA