Please join the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) for the a session in our Health Misinformation Webinar Series!

Deciphering the Social Media Pulse: Twitter’s Role in Shaping COVID-19 Health Beliefs and Vaccine Perceptions

November 1, 20023

1pm – 2pm CST

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In this presentation, we'll explore the profound influence of social media, specifically Twitter, on shaping public health beliefs and perceptions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of two studies will be presented. The first study uses Tweets to understand how COVID-19–related health beliefs are affected in the age of social media. The second research studies patterns of diverse and changing sentiments towards COVID-19 vaccines, leverages deep learning to dissect sentiments from 11 million tweets, connecting these sentiments with global vaccine data.

Presenter: Dr. Yuan Luo is Chief AI Officer at Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, and Associate Professor at Department of Preventive Medicine, at Feinberg School of Medicine in Northwestern University. Globally recognized for his leadership and significant contributions to biomedical AI, Dr. Luo has earned the prestigious titles of elected Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) and elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). As a pioneer in the development of multi-modal AI and data science frameworks, Dr. Luo's work focuses on understanding complex diseases and informing targeted therapies. 

NNLM Health Misinformation Webinar Series

Through presentations from expert guest speakers, the NNLM Health Misinformation Webinar Series will enable librarians, public health professionals, health educators, and health care providers to explore various aspects of health misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information, and learn practical and evidence-based solutions for how to identify it and help curb its spread.

We look forward to seeing you at this and upcoming webinars!

Dana Abbey, MLS, AHIP
Associate Professor

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