Problem statement: “The staggering death toll (over 17 million estimated deaths) is both a profound tragedy and a massive global failure at multiple levels.” This is what the Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from COVID-19 pandemic, published September 2022 (1), determined. Now the world needs to fix what is broken.
Among the things that are broken is low public trust in health science and an “epidemic of health misinformation and disinformation,” per the Commission. As time unfolds, various local and global organizations will effect plans to boost the publics’ acceptance of health science while the organization simultaneously combats health misinformation and disinformation.