Confronting Misinformation in our Circles of Influence

This presentation will offer guidance from the Surgeon General’s toolkit on confronting health-related online misinformation among peers and family.

This webinar is Part 4 of the webinar series, Facts or Fakes? Promoting Health Literacy Skills with Your Students

This presentation will offer guidance from the Surgeon General’s toolkit on confronting health-related online misinformation among peers and family. Five strategies will be discussed with examples and participants will plan how to use at least one strategy with students and campus communicators.

Rapidly evolving evidence and changing guidance, as well as rampant and politicized misinformation and disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic pose challenges for health literacy, including mental health literacy. It is unknown how many students are familiar with these concepts nor how many campus personnel, including college health professionals and mental health providers, are familiar with current techniques and strategies for teaching students about digital health literacy.