The Media Education Centre is in the Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC
About Interests and Competencies: Infodemia – Infodemic (in cooperation with the Institute for Public Health) An Infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviors that can harm health. It also leads to mistrust Continue Reading →
An Infodemic is too much information including false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak. It causes confusion and risk-taking behaviors that can harm health. It also leads to mistrust in health authorities and undermines the public health response. An Infodemic can intensify or lengthen Continue Reading →
A Sustainable Future for Humanity Over the next decade, we will all make choices which will determine the future of our advanced technological society. The COVID-19 and monkeypox pandemics, through which the world is now living, are as graphic an example as could be desired of the instability of our Continue Reading →
The project Action for Health and Equity: Addressing medical Deserts – or AHEAD – aims to reduce health inequalities by addressing the challenge of medical deserts and medical desertification in Europe. Medical deserts are isolated or depopulated areas with such significant falling numbers of medical practitioners and overall health workforce Continue Reading →
MEC Health Laboratory (HL) news: Ph.D. Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, Head of the HL, participated in the Sabin Vaccine Institute and UNICEF, in partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Present the Vaccination Acceptance Research Network (VARN) 2023 Conference… This meeting will be an in-person event. Conference sessions will provide a space for Continue Reading →
There is a great role to play for public health schools and the public health field in protecting human and planetary health. Within this network, we are focusing on climate and health education and training and good corporate citizen policies (i.e., reducing carbon footprint) by public health institutions.
Digital Doc is focused on providing the right digital skills for the best future-proof doctors in order to achieve effective, ethical, technology-driven healthcare systems that place people centrally.
Our goal (in the Media Education Centre) is to motivate citizens that have an unsatisfactory level of digital skills to enter the educational process of Digital and Media Literacy to enlarge possibilities to find work, use online services, to have a better quality of life, to be inter-active included in Continue Reading →
Caption: Participants of the WHO Technical Consultation in front of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, March 21, 2023 Credit: WHO/Damir Begovic To develop infodemic management capacities for the future, WHO convened a technical consultation on building a global curriculum for infodemic management on 21-23 March in Belgrade, Serbia. Continue Reading →
To develop infodemic management capacities for the future, WHO convened a technical consultation on building a global curriculum for infodemic management on 21-23 March in Belgrade, Serbia. Hosted by the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, the consultation brought together 47 representatives of academia, public health Continue Reading →
