How can we effectively address health misinformation? 

“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal
any part of what one has recognized to be the truth”         
-Albert Einstein

• In the clinical setting, health professionals have been forced to address health misinformation in person with patients, however, how to do so has been largely left out of a medical education and training.
• To help fill this gap, a team of collaborators from the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Technology and Social Change Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Michigan School of Information, the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, and the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship have created the MisinfoRx Toolkit (click the link to download your own copy).

This toolkit endorses the “Three C” Approach which is a three-step conversation guide that was developed to enable health professionals with a strategy to engage in an effective  conversation with patients about health misinformation.

To learn more about the guiding principles for countering health misinformation click here.