HKSTP Thought-leadership Series: Using Artificial Intelligence to Control the Growing Epidemic of Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal (內容只提供英文版)

Online via ZOOM

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Vaccine hesitancy, one of the top ten threats to global health listed by the World Health Organization in 2019, refers to the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the effectiveness and availability of vaccines. The growing global epidemic of vaccine hesitancy threatens to reverse the worldwide progress made over the past few decades in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases. In this webinar, the leading scholars will share their strategies in using the latest AI-based technologies to mitigate the growing epidemic of vaccine hesitancy.

Talks:

• Topic: The Growing Epidemic of Vaccine Hesitancy
  Speaker: Professor Heidi J. Larson
  Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health

• Topic: Using AI to monitor and mitigate vaccine misinformation
  Speaker: Professor Joseph T.K. Wu
  Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Hong Kong
  Lead Scientist, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health 

Panel discussion: 

• Topic: Using Artificial Intelligence to Control the Growing Epidemic of Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
  Moderator: Professor Gabriel M. Leung
  Dean of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
  Chief Scientific Officer, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health
  Panelists: Professor Heidi J. Larson and Professor Joseph T.K. Wu

English

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) and Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D^2­4H)