A free online course offered by the World Health Organization is Infodemic Management: Addressing health misinformation. They estimate it will take 3 hours to work through and "A Record of Achievement will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available in the final assessment."
"Public health authorities have a duty to share health information with the population so that people can adopt adequate behaviours to protect their health and the health of others. However, in our modern information ecosystem this objective can be challenged by the overflow of information of varying quality that surges across digital and physical environments during acute public health event.
"Understanding how this infodemic, including mis- and disinformation, links to people's intent and behaviour in different communities online and offline, and how to manage it, has become critical for effective preparedness and prevention of health threats. This course introduces the learners to the concept of health misinformation in an infodemic management context, what harms it can cause, how it spreads, and how to prevent and manage it."
It is at https://openwho.org/courses/im-health-misinformation
There are also 2 other similar courses on infodemics that you can take:
Infodemic management: Developing an infodemic insights report and
Infodemic management 101
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