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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, a playbook on addressing health misinformation.

I speak with Ashwwarya Nagar,

a senior analyst, and Tara Kirksell, a public health communications expert, both at the Center for Health Security, about their new project. We walk through some specific scenarios with the

playbook and zoom out to see how it fits into the larger context of rampant health

misinformation. Let's listen. Ashwarya Nagar and Tara Kirksell, thank you so much for coming

to public health on call. Today, we are talking about the practical playbook for addressing

health misinformation. So Tara, would you like to start us off by telling us what that is?

Thanks for having us here to talk about the playbook.

We're really excited about it.

It was a work of a lot of late nights and thinking.

And I'm really happy to have Eswaria here to help also talk about it

because she was the lead analyst and really led us in developing

this playbook really well. And so the playbook really is intended to guide public health

communicators and other practitioners when they're really just thinking about how they're

going to address misinformation. And it takes this sort of hands-on approach that brings together a lot of

the different guidance that's out there,

scattered around the field and puts it all together in a way that's accessible and really

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