"Librarians Combating Health Misinformation: Get Involved in Your Community"

Instructor: Margaret Henderson, MLIS, AHIP

Approved for 1.5 MLA CE and is approved for Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Level I .

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am PT

Cost: $30 for MLGSCA members; $40 for nonmembers

Registration is limited to 30 participants.

Registration Information: https://mlgsca.wildapricot.org/event-5432073

Misinformation includes false, inaccurate, or misleading claims about diseases, illnesses, potential treatments and cures, vaccines, diets, cosmetic procedures, and other health issues. This course will help you understand health misinformation and learn how to combat it. Suggestions for developing local tools and collaborations, based on existing toolkits, will be discussed and models for organizing a project and surveying your community will be covered. You will leave this course with an outline to direct your future work to address health misinformation.

• Understand the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation
• Identify sources of trustworthy health information
• Develop a plan to find collaborators and share health misinformation tools

Approved for 1.5 MLA CE and is approved for Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS) Level I .

Instructor:  Margaret Henderson, MLIS, AHIP

Margaret Henderson is an Associate Librarian at San Diego State University (SDSU) and has been the Health Sciences Librarian since 2017. She is currently liaison to  the Schools of  Public Health and  Exercise & Nutrition Sciences. Margaret also helps students and faculty with systematic reviews and leads SDSU Library’s research data services. She has been collaborating with public and academic librarians in the county to  develop a guide for finding reliable health information and avoiding misinformation https://libguides.sdsu.edu/health since the fall of 2021. 

Previously, Margaret  worked at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries for 11 years, first as a Research and Education Librarian in the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, and then as Director, Research Data Management. While at VCU, she authored  “Data Management: A Practical Guide for Librarians”, published by Rowman & Littlefield in November 2016. Prior to moving to  Virginia, she was Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Libraries & Archives, in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

Margaret received her MILS from the University of Western Ontario, School of Library and Information Science (as it was known in the 1980s) in London, Ontario, the same school her grandmother, a cataloguer, attended.