Description

During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy continues to drive infection rates higher in the United States and globally through the evolution of more virulent strains. Social movement on Twitter allows for misinformation to guide people’s decision-making behind taking the vaccine. In this interactive webinar, we will use tweets to show how misinformation is woven and travels through networks and can be attributed to a few influencers. We will then present practical artificial intelligence applications to assess sentiment in social media research. Researchers will be able to use a toolkit to complete a sentiment analysis.

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this activity, you will be able to:

Understand the psychology behind social connection in social media.
Differentiate between different types of machine learning categories.
Explore research tools in Python available for artificial intelligence research.

Faculty Bio

Dr. Bruce Ragon

Dr. Ragon became a part-time faculty member at Walden in 2007 and teaches in the School of Health Sciences with students working on their PhD. and M.P.H. in Public Health. Dr. Ragon has been with Walden for over 10 years and is a full time professor in the Master of Public Health program.

Srikanta Banerjee

Dr. Sri Banerjee has nearly 20 years of experience in the areas of Public Health and Global Health. He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control in the area of infectious diseases and has worked on public health projects worldwide. Additionally, he has conducted award-winning research in the areas of HIV and chronic diseases and has experience writing grant proposals. He has conducted geospatial analysis to determine the presence of food deserts. His experience as a public health consultant and serving on the board of directors of public health organizations help in proving a practical front-line perspective to the learning of public health. Also, he has experience in advising students about public health projects. He uses his medical clinical expertise and his research acumen to guide his students.

Accreditation

Accreditation Statement

Walden University is a designated provider (ID# 123343) of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

Walden University is an approved provider of CPH recertification credits by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Awards

CPH Certificate for CE Hours

NCHEC Certificate for CE Hours

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1 CE
Estimated 1-Hour Workload
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WALH1013 - Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy Applying Artificial Intelligence-Guided Social Media Analysis