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Global health crises are also information crises: A call to action
Author(s) -
Xie Bo,
He Daqing,
Mercer Tim,
Wang Youfa,
Wu Dan,
Fleischmann Kenneth R.,
Zhang Yan,
Yoder Linda H.,
Stephens Keri K.,
Mackert Michael,
Lee Min Kyung
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.24357
Subject(s) - call to action , covid-19 , action (physics) , health information , global health , term (time) , field (mathematics) , pandemic , public relations , political science , information dissemination , data science , computer science , health care , disease , medicine , business , virology , world wide web , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , mathematics , pathology , marketing , quantum mechanics , outbreak , pure mathematics , law
In this opinion paper, we argue that global health crises are also information crises. Using as an example the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) epidemic, we (a) examine challenges associated with what we term “global information crises”; (b) recommend changes needed for the field of information science to play a leading role in such crises; and (c) propose actionable items for short‐ and long‐term research, education, and practice in information science.