Tue Oct 13 · 12:00pm
Misinformation Speaker Series: Tackling the Misinformation Research Landscape With Integrity and Urgency
Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, a health communication scholar who resigned from the National Institutes of Health in January 2026 after 18 years, reflects on the pressures on health misinformation research, including researchers' self-censorship and growing censorship at the NIH, and closes on research priorities such as countering major misinformation spreaders. Chou, a co-author of the Bethesda Declaration, is now a Harvard Shorenstein Center Fellow.