Information Futures Lab

The Information Futures Lab (IFL) at Brown University’s School of Public Health is pleased to introduce its 2024 Visiting Fellows cohort. Leaders in community-based journalism, equitable tech entrepreneurship, culturally competent communication and infodemics research have joined the Lab to drive a set of innovative projects and pilots that are responding to urgent information challenges in real time.

Panel hosted by Information Futures Lab featured various media, communication experts

Information Futures Lab study identifies urgent need for improved research on how to respond to misleading health information

Pilot Projects Include Narrating Climate Futures, Supporting Infodemics Managers and Building Hyperlocal Models for Health Communication

The co-director of the Information Futures Lab dives into practical strategies to combat mis- and disinformation at the 26th annual meeting of the Rhode Island Public Health Association.

There have been anti-vaccine movements for as long as there have been vaccines, but our current information ecosystem leaves all of us vulnerable to misinformation. Brown’s Information Futures Lab aims to arm public health students and practitioners with next generation communication tools to meet the growing information crisis and its public health impacts.

Policy recommendations for public health officials, institutions, and policy makers to build and maintain a stronger public health system that protects Americans from a lingering pandemic – and future ones.