This event is presented by the Institute for Pandemics and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Misinformation spread through social media has been responsible for an increasing mistrust of public health, particularly amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing analysis tools of social media and other online content rely on logic and science, often ignoring people’s beliefs, cultural backgrounds and feelings when it comes to understanding health information.
The fifth-annual Vohra Miller Lectures in Critical Public Health Issues aims to foster a dialogue on health equity issues, as it relates to culturally-aligned artificial intelligence (AI) to foster trust in health.
# Speakers
# Panelist and Moderator:
- Kate Mulligan, Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
# Panelists:
- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
- Jude Kong, Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Dan Lizotte, Associate Professor, The University of Western Ontario
# Special Remarks by:
- Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Professor and Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
# Panelists will explore some of the following issues:
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Why marginalized population voices are not represented amongst current research technologies
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Using AI to analyze online conversations to discern types of health information different demographics trust and share
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Understanding how faith, culture, and emotion factor into people’s health activities
This event will be held both in-person and livestreamed on YouTube. Participants that attend in person are invited to join a meet-and-greet with the panelists after the event.
# Background on Lecture Series
The Institute for Pandemics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health was formed in spring 2020 in order to tackle some of the most pressing issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and to understand how to prevent future pandemics. A central goal of The Institute is to address issues of health equity associated with pandemics and other public health emergencies. As part of this goal, The Institute, along with its founding donor, the Vohra Miller Foundation, sponsors a lecture series that features preeminent scholars, policymakers, advocates, and others who are engaging in the science of pandemic-related health inequities, other critical public health issues, and in the translation of that science. This is the fifth annual lecture of the Vohra Miller Lectures in Critical Public Health Issues.