Ep. 025 - Making Sense of Health Headlines (Dr. Lindsey Leininger, Dear Pandemic & Dartmouth)

<p>Lindsey Leininger, PhD joins Dr. Chana Davis to talk about making sense of healthlines. They share concrete strategies for separating fact from fiction by boosting your scientific literacy, data literacy and media literacy. The conversation centers on COVID-19, but applies to all health news consumers.</p> <p>Dr. Leininger is a public health scientist and educator, who is on the front lines of COVID-19 science communication. As part of an all-female team of “Nerdy Girl” scientists, she runs the COVID-19 educational campaign @Dear Pandemic on social media, with over 900 answers to questions from the public.</p> <p>Dr. Leininger is on faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where she teaches courses on making sense of medical data. She holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.</p> <p>This episode is the first of a two part conversation. Stay tuned for part two - all about vaccine hesitancy, anti-vax, and COVID-19 denial.</p>