Investing in trust and community resilience: lessons from the early months of the first digital pandemic

Salma M Abdalla; Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya; Margaret Jamieson; Monica Verma; Victoria Haldane; Anne-Sophie Jung; Sudhvir Singh; Anders Nordström; Thoraya Obaid; Helena Legido-Quigley; Christine McNab

doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-067487

Investing in trust and community resilience: lessons from the early months of the first digital pandemic

BMJ. 2021 Nov 28:375:e067487. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067487.

Authors

Salma M Abdalla^{1

2}, Shaffi Fazaludeen Koya², Margaret Jamieson³, Monica Verma⁴, Victoria Haldane³, Anne-Sophie Jung⁵, Sudhvir Singh^{1

6}, Anders Nordström¹, Thoraya Obaid⁷, Helena Legido-Quigley^{1

4

5}, Christine McNab¹

Affiliations

¹ Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat, Global Health Campus, Geneva, Switzerland.
² School of Public Health, Boston University, USA.
³ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
⁶ Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
⁷ Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Abstract

Salma M Abdalla and colleagues examine how an atmosphere of misinformation, disinformation, and erosion of trust shaped the early response to covid-19 on both global and national levels

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / prevention & control
COVID-19 / psychology
Communication
Community Participation
Female
Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Investments
Resilience, Psychological / physiology*
SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
Social Media / statistics & numerical data
Trust / psychology*
Vaccination / psychology