Infodemic Management: promoting healthy behaviours in the time of COVID-19 and mitigating harm from misinformation and disinformation

23 September 2020 14:00 – 15:30 CET


UNGA SIDE EVENT | 23 September 2020 | Wednesday

08:00-09:00 EST | 14:00–15:00 EST | 19:00-20:00 ICT

Co-sponsored by: Indonesia, Thailand and Uruguay


Programme

Opening message from the UN Secretary-General, WHO Director-General and Executive Director WHO Health Emergencies Dr Mike Ryan

Meeting summary

 75th UNGA side event summary

Speakers

WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19 Dr David Nabarro, Tackling vaccine mis- and disinformation, Director First Draft Dr Claire Wardle

Country presentations

Indonesia: DG Semuel A. Pangerapan, Director-General of Informatics Application 

Thailand: Dr Supakit Sirilak, Deputy Permanent Secretary for Global Health 

Uruguay: Ing. Pablo Orefice, Director of the Salud.uy Initiative

Followed by a Q&A session

The event was streamed live at WHO YouTube channel and interpretation recordings in all UN official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish).