On 2 February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 infodemic as an overabundance of information – “some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.” Indeed, this assessment sheds light on the fact that, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are struggling with both the COVID-19 pandemic and co-evolving infodemics, as well as the need to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to fill crucial niches in public health policy and health communication.
The COVID-19 pandemic is fueling digital health transformation – accelerating innovations of digital health services, surveillance, and interventions, whereas hastening social impact of deliberate infodemic. In this Research Topic, we invite researchers to summarize the best practices, policy priorities, and main challenges of combating the COVID-19 pandemic from multidisciplinary perspectives. It also showcases advancements in the crux of both COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 infodemic, as well as proven innovations of digital health and public policy evaluation (PPE).
The goal of this Research Topic is to shed light on the advancements in digital health innovations and surveillance strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. We wish to provide practitioners with insights, critical appraisal, and innovative methods in a broader and stronger array of pandemic management strategies.
We encourage authors to contribute original research articles, opinions, review articles, and perspectives. We welcome the submissions that are pertinent, but are not limited, to the following subjects:
• Community, culture, and technology-based services (digital health, eHealth, mHealth)
• Fact-checking using artificial intelligence (AI)
• Recommender systems using artificial intelligence (AI)
• Innovative health communication strategies against COVID-19 infodemic
• Public perception and collective behaviours during the COVID pandemic
• Innovative approaches of public policy evaluation (PPE)
• SARS-CoV-2 vaccine inequity and vaccine hesitancy
• Insights in science-policy exchange cycles and associated time lags
• Challenges of science-based policymaking in the current and post-COVID pandemic
On 2 February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized COVID-19 infodemic as an overabundance of information – “some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.” Indeed, this assessment sheds light on the fact that, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are struggling with both the COVID-19 pandemic and co-evolving infodemics, as well as the need to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to fill crucial niches in public health policy and health communication.
The COVID-19 pandemic is fueling digital health transformation – accelerating innovations of digital health services, surveillance, and interventions, whereas hastening social impact of deliberate infodemic. In this Research Topic, we invite researchers to summarize the best practices, policy priorities, and main challenges of combating the COVID-19 pandemic from multidisciplinary perspectives. It also showcases advancements in the crux of both COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 infodemic, as well as proven innovations of digital health and public policy evaluation (PPE).
The goal of this Research Topic is to shed light on the advancements in digital health innovations and surveillance strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. We wish to provide practitioners with insights, critical appraisal, and innovative methods in a broader and stronger array of pandemic management strategies.
We encourage authors to contribute original research articles, opinions, review articles, and perspectives. We welcome the submissions that are pertinent, but are not limited, to the following subjects:
• Community, culture, and technology-based services (digital health, eHealth, mHealth)
• Fact-checking using artificial intelligence (AI)
• Recommender systems using artificial intelligence (AI)
• Innovative health communication strategies against COVID-19 infodemic
• Public perception and collective behaviours during the COVID pandemic
• Innovative approaches of public policy evaluation (PPE)
• SARS-CoV-2 vaccine inequity and vaccine hesitancy
• Insights in science-policy exchange cycles and associated time lags
• Challenges of science-based policymaking in the current and post-COVID pandemic
