VIRTUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2020

DAY 1

31 OCTOBER 2020 (SATURDAY)


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0900-0905

Opening Address

Associate Professor Konstadina Griva

President, Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore


Opening Address

Professor James Best

Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University

0905-0910


0910-0935

Plenary: Communication strategies for minimizing misinformation during pandemics

Professor Gary Kreps

George Mason University, VA, United States


0935-0940

Break


0940-1040

Parallel Sessions

Digital Health

Efficient Health Communications and Delivery

Mainstream News Media’s Role in Health Communication to Combat Misinformation During Public Health Crises: Assessment of Coverage and Corrections of COVID-19 Misinformation

Lee Si Yu, Nanyang Technological University

Proposing a typology of health information in the era of COVID-19 through WhatsApp Focus Group Discussions

Rayner Tan, National University of Singapore

Understanding the psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic on patients with cancer, their caregivers and healthcare workers in Singapore

Konstadina Griva, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Scoping Review: Smartphone App-Based Healthcare Chatbots

Haixiao Shi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

I’m alone but not lonely: Investigating the u-shaped pattern of perceived loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and Greece  

Alessandro Carollo, University of Trento

Understanding the effectiveness of mobile-based influenza-like illness surveillance systems in Singapore

Chitra Panchapakesan, Nanyang Technological University


Break

1040-1100


A Behavioral Economics Perspective on COVID-19 and the “New Normal”

Associate Professor Joanne Yoong

University of Southern California

1100-1125


The SOCRATEs Programme and the Importance of Monitoring Socio-Behavioural Responses to a Pandemic in Near Real-Time

Dr Mark Chen I-Cheng

National Centre for Infectious Diseases

1125-1150