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DESCRIPTION:This event will focus on the growing misinformation and disinfo
 rmation within the realm of global public health and what we can do better
  to address these challenges. The event will include a keynote speech and 
 a panel discussion on understanding the challenges related to communicatin
 g scientific research and public health messaging effectively\, countering
  disinformation and misinformation\, and what training institutes includin
 g universities can do to strengthen efforts to build better communication 
 in public health.\n\nDate: Thursday\, November 23\, 2023\n\nTime: 4:30 p.m
 . - 6:30 p.m.\n\nLocation: Thomson House Ballroom (3rd Floor)\, 3650 McTav
 ish St\, Montreal\, QC H3A 1Y2\n\nRegister for the event\n\nKeynote speech
 \n\nKeynote speaker:\n\nTimothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in He
 alth Law and Policy\, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of 
 Public Health\, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the U
 niversity of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem c
 ells\, genetics\, research ethics\, the public representations of science\
 , and public health policy has allowed him to publish over 350 academic ar
 ticles. He has won numerous academic\, science communication\, and writing
  awards\, and is a Member of the Order Canada and a Fellow of both the Roy
 al Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He contr
 ibutes frequently to the popular press and is the author of two national b
 estsellers. Follow Tim Caulfield on Twitter.\n\nModerator:\n\nTimothy Evan
 s is the inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population
  and Global Health (SPGH) in the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Vice-Pr
 incipal (Global Policy and Innovation). Tim has served as the Senior Direc
 tor of the Health\, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World 
 Bank Group\, Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization (
 WHO)\, the Director of the Health Equity Theme at the Rockefeller Foundati
 on among many other high-level positions. He has been a co-founder of many
  partnerships including the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunization (
 GAVI) as well as efforts to increase access to HIV treatment for mothers a
 nd innovative approaches to training community-based midwives in Banglades
 h.\n\nPanelists:\n\nAnnick Gauthier has been working to counter disinforma
 tion in science and health since her PhD at UBC working on “hamburger dise
 ase”. During her research and medical career\, Annick has focused on volun
 teer work with youth for health education through Let’s talk science and V
 itamin Sports. Using her background as a virologist and family physician\,
  she has had the opportunity and privilege to work with Kanien'kehá:ka dur
 ing the COVID-19 pandemic to help bring clear\, consistent\, correct infor
 mation to the community via social media\, radio and TV. Her role as a med
 ical evaluator for Health Canada for the COVID-19 vaccines\, allowed her t
 o communicate on a national level to other health care workers and the pop
 ulation to counter disinformation to increase vaccine uptake.\n\nRoxanne K
 hamsi is a longtime health and science writer\, with years of experience a
 s the former chief news editor of Nature Medicine and as an instructor of 
 journalism and science communication at the State University of New York a
 t Stony Brook and the City University of New York. Roxanne has received re
 cognition for her work\, including the Walter C. Alvarez Award from the Am
 erican Medical Writers Association. Roxanne has also been recognized with 
 a Guild of Health Writers Award for best young writer and the Global Healt
 h Council’s Excellence in Media Award. Follow Roxanne Khamsi on Twitter.\n
 \nMadhukar Pai\, MD\, PhD\, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiolo
 gy & Global Health at ���ϲ����� University\, Montreal. He is the Associate Di
 rector of the ���ϲ����� International TB Centre and the inaugural Chair of th
 e Department of Global and Public Health. He is a member of the Royal Soci
 ety of Canada\, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. H
 e serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases\, PLoS Medi
 cine\, and BMJ Global Health\, among others. He is Editor-In-Chief of PLOS
  Global Public Health. Professor Pai is a frequent contributor to the medi
 a in Canada\, India and the US and is a columnist on the Forbes magazine o
 n topics related to global health. Follow Madhu Pai on Twitter.\n
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LOCATION:Ballroom\, Thomson House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3650 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:How do we handle disinformation agents in public health? Understand
 ing the challenges and tackling mis and disinformation in public health
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