COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need!

The COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need to Know program is designed to train community members and healthcare professionals on strategies on how to manage information overload and combat misinformation. The goals of the program are to promote awareness of mis- and disinformation that lead to serious and harmful physical and mental consequences and to provide access to high quality electronic information resources to help make informed health care decisions relating to COVID-19. Miami-Dade Area Health Education Center Miami-Dade AHEC will provide two types of educational training/trainings. 1 Community Members Training: Miami-Dade AHEC will educate members of the community attending virtual or in-person health education trainings in diabetes self-management, Alzheimers Disease, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, and tobacco cessation about the effects of COVID-19 among minority population; the importance of making informed health care decisions and benefit of managing mental health in the wake of the COVID-19 information overload 2 Health Professionals and Health Career Students: MDAHEC will provide a 60 minutes presentation virtual or in-person to health professionals and current college students enrolled in a health science program and educate on strategies designed to increase COVID-19 awareness; address misinformation and mistrust among underserved populations; increase awareness about the resources and services of the NIH, NLM, and CDC and disseminate health education materials from NIH, NLM and CDC.