Bio

I'm a multidisciplinary digital health and health information professional. I like to work with other humans to build public health systems - to ultimately empower better decisions for health and well-being. By education, I am an economist and biomedical informatician. I thrive in interdisciplinary and human-centered projects in public health. I am Fellow of the Australasian Institute for Digital Health. I maintain a PMP certification, and various non degree studies. Views expressed are my own, not of any of my employers. Specialties: M&E, data insights and evidence-informed policymaking, health information and knowledge management, project & programme management, infodemic management, digital health and innovation, HCD ------------ Tina Purnat is Team Lead for Infodemic Management in the Unit for High Impact Events Preparedness, Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention at WHO. In this role, she has pioneered advancement of infodemic management and infodemiology for promoting healthy behaviors in emergency preparedness, response and prevention. Tina has worked for over 20 years at the WHO, European Union and academia. Her expertise amalgamates health research, analysis, digital health and policy-making with an emphasis on effective use of health information and evidence in decision-making. As part of the WHO COVID-19 response 2020-21, she worked in developing and formulating WHO infodemic response and evidence-based approaches to infodemic management interventions, for which she received the WHO Pathfinder and Innovation Award 2021. Between 2015-19, she was Unit Leader for Health Informatics and Information Systems, and 2016-2018 acting Unit Leader for Health Information, Monitoring and Analysis at WHO Europe. There, she led the development of the European Health Information Gateway; capacity building courses in health information and evidence-informed policy-making; and the assessment, integration and strengthening of health information systems in countries. After that, she moved to WHO HQ where she served in - at the time - the newly created Data and Analytics Divison, and later in - at the time - the new Digital Health and Innovation department. In DHI she worked on AI and other digital health technologies in health, and exchange of health information and related health data governance. Tina serves on the editorial board of JMIR Infodemiology, on the steering group of the Vaccine Safety Network, is active in the EUPHA PHMR Section, and is Fellow of the Australasian Institute for Digital Health.