- Location
- Online
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event
- Dates
- January 11, 2021 from 10:00am to 11:00am
Links
This seminar will be hosted on Zoom. Please register to receive the link and password two hours before the seminar. Please note that space is limited.
Speaker: Dr. Melodie YunJu Song
Title: Addressing vaccine misinformation on social media beyond clinical settings
Bio:
Melodie (Yunju) Song, PhD (McMaster) is a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Health Systems Impact Fellow at Public Health Ontario (PHO). At PHO, she is exploring stakeholder perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for equitable immunization delivery. She is a research collaborator at the Ted Rogers School of Management Social Media Lab at Ryerson University, specializing in social media network analysis on vaccine misinformation. Melodie worked for CDC-Taiwan and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan before coming to Canada in 2013. She holds graduate certificates in global health & STI/HIV prevention from the University of Washington, spent her gap year in Finland studying social psychology and gender equality, and volunteered as an RN at harm reduction centers, rural areas, and HIV orphanages in her 20’s.
Questions? Email us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca
About the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, DLSPH:
With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, we are developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.
We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.