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"The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda has been accompanied by targeted health disinformation just hours after the WHO emergency declaration. Our report analyses the narratives, actors and dynamics of this information manipulation – from bioweapons claims an
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Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective
Dakar: CODESRIA (2026), ?? pp.
"[The editors] have expertly put together a tour de force collection of African perspectives on the varied ways in which journalists, communicators, citizens, government communicators and other stakeholders mediated the recent global pandemics. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a critical juncture, the
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"When I first compiled the list of every African country’s national eHealth strategy or digital health policy back in 2020, the dominant instrument across the continent was a five-year national eHealth strategy. They were written to a WHO Global Observatory template, often expired, frequently undi
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Critical Health Communication: Theory and Practice
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2026), xxiii, 285 pp.
"This book offers strong rationales for adopting a critical view of health communication by demonstrating how theories and critical practices can be enriched by foregrounding issues of power, politics, and culture.In health communication, critical approaches highlight the role of communication in co
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Guide du communicateur pour la Maladie a Virus Ebola (MVE)
World Health Organization (WHO) (2026), 29 pp.
" Les communicateurs, incluant les agents de santé de base, les volontaires communautaires, les leaders locaux, ainsi que tous les acteurs impliqués dans la sensibilisation, jouent un rôle essentiel dans la communication des risques liés à Ebola et la mobilisation de la communauté pour l’ado
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Don’t Talk to Strangers? The Role of Network Composition, WhatsApp Groups, and Partisanship in Explaining Beliefs in Misinformation About COVID-19 in Brazil
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (2025), pp. 113-130
"The spread of disinformation has been a topic of heightened concern, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the response to a public health crisis relies on the ability for public officials to inform citizens. Using a representative two-wave panel of internet users in Brazil, we examine the
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15 ICT4D Solutions Transforming Health, Education, Agriculture Sectors in International Development
ICTworks (2025)
"This analysis examines current implementations and emerging trends across international development sectors like health, education, and agriculture. Digital solutions are fostering innovation, improving service delivery, and enhancing economic opportunities. As we move deeper into the digital age,
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How Do You Explain ChatGPT to a Community Health Worker?
ICTworks, December 2 (2025)
"I’ve been diving deep into groundbreaking research on community health worker (CHW) perceptions of AI applications in rural India. The truth is more complex than the rosy predictions flooding our sector about artificial intelligence transforming global health. The findings expose a troubling gap
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Challenges of Journalists Across All Continents in the Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 2019-2040
"During the COVID-19 crisis, journalists doubled efforts to keep societies informed, safe, and disease-free. The study examines and compares specific challenges that journalists, based in diverse world regions, confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted with 215 journalists work
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Télévision et santé: Conditions de production des émissions télévisées de santé à Kinshasa
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"La production d’émissions de santé publique à la télévision à Kinshasa contribue à la sensibilisation, la diffusion et l’éducation de la population sur des thématiques et des informations sanitaires : les maladies transmissibles, la santé maternelle et infantile…
Cependant, pour l
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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126
"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an
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News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246
"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr
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Systematic Literature Review on Public Engagement via Government Social Media during the COVID-19 Crisis
Red Fame, volume 12, issue 3 (2024), pp. 188-200
"Public engagement on government social media platforms can boost public trust in government while also improving and speeding up the distribution of health information. The importance of public engagement and its widespread existence have promoted extensive academic research on this channel. The pu
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The Power of Trust: Countering Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru
Internews (2024), 19 pp.
"Internews designed “The Power of Trust” to strengthen intercultural health networks and provide information to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines. Over 11 months, Internews and local partners continuously listened to the information needs of the communities. In response, we developed forums i
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Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 119-136
"The coronavirus pandemic brought immense challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice. The impact of the pandemic on journalism is yet to be fully understood and examined but this paper contributes to the field by focusing on the impact
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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124
"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t
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Vaccination Communication Strategies and Uptake in Africa: A Systematic Review
Vaccines, volume 12, issue 1333 (2024), 31 pp.
"African countries experience high rates of infectious diseases that are mostly preventable by vaccination. Despite the risks of infections and other adverse outcomes, vaccination coverage in the African region remains significantly low. Poor vaccination knowledge is a contributory factor, and effec
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Antimicrobial resistance: Toolkit for media engagement
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO); FAO; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2024), vii, 40 pp.
Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467
"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment
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