COVID Facts Fiction Future
December 10, 2021
10:00 Am – 11:15 AM CT
A live discussion to assist in making your choices on how to live in a COVID world.
Event Info:
In light of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory about the urgent threat of health misinformation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health’s Region 6 Office and the Community Care Resource Council (CCRC) invite you to a webinar highlighting the psychology of misinformation in times of uncertainty and evolving science, common COVID-19 myths and the facts, and how we can build on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to be better prepared for future health threats.
FREE Registration
This event will be Online.
Debunk the Misinformation:
- Discover the top COVID-19 myths, their origins, and the facts that dispel them.
- Find out more about the psychology of misinformation and the contextual factors that can enhance its spread.
- Learn about the vision for a world better prepared for the next pandemic.
- Ask your questions to the panel of experts!
How to Evaluate Information:
- Trust Reliable Sources
- Beware Confirmation Biases
- Is this Old Data
- Smallpox Polio Vaccines
- Best Risk Protection
- Difference in Variants
- Protecting Children
- What Does the Vaccine Do
- What’s In the Vaccine
- What Reliable Sources Say
- Who to Listen To
Our Moderators
Karl Berry
Founder
Community Care Resource Council
Today after 26 years in recovery, Karl is the Senior Executive Director of the non-profit organization, Community Care Resource Council (CCRC). He is known in professional circles as a help convener, a referral resource, a connector. Karl has extensive global connections that include governments, faith-leaders regardless of their beliefs, and behavior health resource providers.
Mehran S. Massoudi, PhD, MPH
CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service
Regional Health Administrator, Region 6
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Mehran S. Massoudi, PhD, MPH was appointed Regional Health Administrator for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region VI, in October 2016. Dr. Massoudi is a Commissioned Corps officer in the US Public Health Service, having served since 1994 and holds the rank of a Captain. He is the senior federal health official representing the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Office of the Surgeon General in Region VI, which covers Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Region VI is the third most populated among the 10 HHS regions, having a large ethnic and racially diverse population and the second largest Hispanic population in the country, covering two-thirds of the US-Mexico Border.
Our Speakers
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc, FASTMH, FAAP
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Co-Director, Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics. He is also University Professor at Baylor University, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University, Faculty Fellow with the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies at Texas A&M University, and Health Policy Scholar in the Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy.
Joseph Kanter, MD
State Health Officer & Medical Director
Louisiana Department of Health
Joe Kanter is the lead public health official for the Greater New Orleans area, where he coordinates clinical services, emergency preparedness, infectious disease control, and strategic health initiatives for the region. As director of health for the City of New Orleans, Joe led Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s comprehensive opioid mitigation strategy, which included issuing a first-in-the-state standing order for naloxone, equipping the New Orleans Police Department with the reversal medication, increasing availability of medication-assisted treatment, promoting harm reduction services, and initiating a city-wide effort to reduce the stigma of addictive disorders.
December 10, 2021 10:00 am 
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