Experts Offer Tips on How to Build Trust in Science During COVID-19 | Health City

This article summarizes an event that CEID co-hosted with the Aspen Institute Science and Society Program: Building Trust During Scientific Uncertainty: How Do We Better Respond to Outbreaks?

“…Boston University’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research and the Aspen Institute’s Science & Society Program, in December, asked four prominent communication experts to explore the topic of how to build public trust in science during a time of scientific uncertainty. From Boston Medical Center, Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, an infectious diseases physician; and Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH, MSc, an associate hospital epidemiologist, joined Clint Watts, research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; and Lee McIntyre, PhD, author of The Scientific Attitude and How to Talk to a Science Denier for the discussion…”

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