Entry #: 118415
Nominator Information:
Charles Branas, c.branas@columbia.edu
Nomination Type: Individual
Nominee: Sandra Albrecht
ssa2018@cumc.columbia.edu
Reason for Nomination:
Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Albrecht has been engaged in scientific communication efforts to help individuals, communities, and policymakers make evidence-based decisions around health. To this end, she has been serving as Chief Epidemiologist for @Dear Pandemic, a social media-based, multi-disciplinary COVID-19 science communication project aimed at tackling the “infodemic” of misinformation that has helped to cripple the response to the pandemic. She has also been serving as the editor-in-chief of the Spanish language mirror site, Querida Pandemia. As an Ecuadorian-American epidemiologist raised in a bilingual household, she has been leading the efforts on QP in order to provide high-quality scientific content about COVID-19 to the public in Spanish, both in the US and throughout Latin America.
Keyword(s):
Science-communicator
Infodemic
Vaccine-hesitancy
Health
Equity
Website/URL:
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/epidemiology-professor-offers-clarity-confusing-time