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Grief

Marked By COVID

  • Marked by COVID is the grassroots nonprofit leading the national movement for pandemic justice and remembrance. Founded by and for those most harmed, we promote health, equity, and government accountability. If you’ve lost a loved one to Covid you can join us for our weekly Covid Community meeting to learn more about how to get involved.

 

COVID Grief Network

  • COVID Grief Network offers free grief support for people in their 20s and 30s grieving the loss of someone close due to COVID-19 through virtual volunteer-led support groups, community events, peer-to-peer connection, and an online Facebook group to connect with other young adults experiencing pandemic grief.

Center for Countering Digital Hate

  • Center for Countering Digital Hate is the leading international non-profit countering the production and mass distribution of online hate and misinformation.
 

Center for Humane Technology: Control Your Tech Use 

  • Here are a few important steps you can take right now to improve your digital well-being and regain control. Start with your own devices and invite friends or family to join you. Our collective individual actions are creating a powerful growing movement. Together, we can change the system.
 

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General: Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation 

  • This resource is here to provide a set of tools for you to understand, identify, and stop misinformation, and help others do the same.
 

MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine): Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial  

  • This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information you find on the Internet.
 

CrashCourse: Navigating Digital Information 

  • In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to: 
    • * Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers
    • * Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources
    • * Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics
    • * Understand how search engines and social media feeds work
    • * Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones
 

Poynter Institute: MediaWise Programs 

    • Our innovative, digital-first programs address the ever-changing landscape of misinformation across the internet. Anyone of any age can find videos, courses and other resources to help them separate fact from fiction online.
 

Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It 

    • Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? This wide-ranging and comprehensive book shines a light on how false beliefs take root and spread, exploring the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that make us all susceptible to misinformation.
 

Inoculation.Science

    • This website brings together research and resources on inoculation theory applied to misinformation. What is inoculation theory? Much like medical vaccines confer resistance to future infection, psychological inoculations build resistance against future manipulation. The website includes “inoculation” videos and games.
 

JITSUVAX Project 

    • The JITSUVAX Project was set up in response to the global spread of misinformation about vaccination. This international research consortium was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 and led by the University of Bristol.
 

A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the Power of COVID-19 Misinformation 

  • In this editorial, the authors examine the roles that social media companies play in the COVID-19 infodemic and their obligations to end it.
 

CCA Reports: Fault Lines 

  • Fault Lines details how science and health misinformation can proliferate and its impacts on individuals, communities, and society. It explores what makes us susceptible to misinformation and how we might use these insights to improve societal resilience to it.

CrashCourse: Navigating Digital Information 

  • In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to: 
    • * Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers
    • * Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources
    • * Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics
    • * Understand how search engines and social media feeds work
    • * Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones

 

Poynter Institute: MediaWise Programs 

  • Our innovative, digital-first programs address the ever-changing landscape of misinformation across the internet. Anyone of any age can find videos, courses and other resources to help them separate fact from fiction online.

 

Inoculation.Science

  • This website brings together research and resources on inoculation theory applied to misinformation. What is inoculation theory? Much like medical vaccines confer resistance to future infection, psychological inoculations build resistance against future manipulation. The website includes “inoculation” videos and games.

 

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General: Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation 

  • This resource is here to provide a set of tools for you to understand, identify, and stop misinformation, and help others do the same.

 

MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine): Evaluating Internet Health Information Tutorial  

  • This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information you find on the Internet.

 

Common Sense Media: Teaching Digital Literacy and Well-Being  

  • This course will walk you through the Common Sense Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum, exploring its core principles and experiencing the ready-to-use lesson plans firsthand. By the end, you’ll have everything you need to help your students not only survive, but thrive in our tech-filled world.

Building a Healthier Future: Designing for AI Health Equity 

  • As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms healthcare delivery, diagnostics, and treatment models, the report highlights the promises of Health AI and calls for intentional design and governance to ensure these technologies embed bold equity principles. Building a Healthier Future focuses on some of the critical challenges and opportunities that are emerging as AI evolves and will play an ever-increasing role in health care.

Voices for Vaccines 

  • Voices for Vaccines™ is a family-led organization that serves as a catalyst to spark positive peer-to-peer conversations about vaccines and the diseases they prevent by supporting communities, building networks, and developing fact-based content that enables parents to make healthy, informed decisions about vaccination for their children and their communities. Check out their Blog, YouTube, and Podcast. 

 

Vaccinate Your Family: Vaccination Community Learning Program (VCLP) 

  • The VCLP is a free, interactive training hub designed for all learners, including community health workers, advocates, and providers. Brush up on your vaccine knowledge and learn how to better communicate the benefits and risks of vaccines.

 

Vaccinate Your Family: Weekly Vaccine Intelligence Report   

  • The Vaccine Intelligence Report is a weekly deep-dive newsletter designed to help you make sense of the changing vaccine policy environment. Timely updates on vaccine news, research, and policy delivered straight to your inbox.

 

WHO: Essential Programme on Immunization 

  • The Essential Programme on Immunization aims to strengthen vaccine programmes, supply, and delivery, and ensure universal access to all relevant vaccines for all populations across the life course.

 

WHO: How To Talk About Vaccines  

  • This article is part of a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines – from how they work and how they’re made to ensuring safety and equitable access – in WHO’s Vaccines Explained series.

Center for Unbiased Science: Escape Rooms 

  • Step into realistic scenarios with patients, answer questions, and level up your clinical confidence—all for FREE. This first-of-its-kind training turns vaccine education into an interactive, gamified experience. The game is backed by evidence-based science and proven communication strategies.

 

JITSUVAX Project 

  • The JITSUVAX Project was set up in response to the global spread of misinformation about vaccination. This international research consortium was funded by the EU Horizon 2020 and led by the University of Bristol.

 

JITSUVAX Training  

  • JITSUVAX Training is an exciting new social enterprise from the creators of the Empathetic Refutational Interview (ERI). The ERI is a four-step vaccine conversation framework designed specifically for health workers. It makes vaccine conversations easier and more effective. Our innovative ERI training teaches health workers how to:
    • identify and correct vaccine misconceptions
    • address the spread of vaccine misinformation
    • empower people to make vaccine decisions based on fact
    • build trust and maintain rapport during potentially difficult vaccine conversations.
  • The evidence-based ERI is proven to work, easy to learn and instantly usable.

 

WHO: Essential Programme on Immunization 

  • The Essential Programme on Immunization aims to strengthen vaccine programmes, supply, and delivery, and ensure universal access to all relevant vaccines for all populations across the life course.

 

WHO: How To Talk About Vaccines  

  • This article is part of a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines – from how they work and how they’re made to ensuring safety and equitable access – in WHO’s Vaccines Explained series.

Common Sense Media: Teaching Digital Literacy and Well-Being  

  • This course will walk you through the Common Sense Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum, exploring its core principles and experiencing the ready-to-use lesson plans firsthand. By the end, you’ll have everything you need to help your students not only survive, but thrive in our tech-filled world.

 

Center for Unbiased Science: Escape Rooms 

  • Step into realistic scenarios with patients, answer questions, and level up your clinical confidence—all for FREE. This first-of-its-kind training turns vaccine education into an interactive, gamified experience. The game is backed by evidence-based science and proven communication strategies.

Center for Humane Technology: Control Your Tech Use 

  • Here are a few important steps you can take right now to improve your digital well-being and regain control. Start with your own devices and invite friends or family to join you. Our collective individual actions are creating a powerful growing movement. Together, we can change the system.

Voices for Vaccines 

  • Voices for Vaccines™ is a family-led organization that serves as a catalyst to spark positive peer-to-peer conversations about vaccines and the diseases they prevent by supporting communities, building networks, and developing fact-based content that enables parents to make healthy, informed decisions about vaccination for their children and their communities. Check out their Blog, YouTube, and Podcast.

WHO: How To Talk About Vaccines  

  • This article is part of a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines – from how they work and how they’re made to ensuring safety and equitable access – in WHO’s Vaccines Explained series.

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General: Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation 

  • This resource is here to provide a set of tools for you to understand, identify, and stop misinformation, and help others do the same.