Symposium / Conference / Workshop

4-Part CAPS/PRC Town Hall Series -- Laying Foundations of Trust: Moving Towards Health Equity

Session 3: Risk and Decision-making in a Climate of Uncertainty
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4-Part CAPS/PRC Town Hall Series -- Laying Foundations of Trust: Moving Towards Health Equity

This 4-part CAPS/DPS Town Hall series will explore core social and behavioral aspects of trust and engagement with public health measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye towards lessons from HIV work, in order to stimulate programmatic and research agendas that promote health equity.

Session 3: Risk and Decision-making in a Climate of Uncertainty

This session will focus on how people understand risk (related to both acquisition and transmission) and make decisions about public and personal health-related behaviors (HIV- and COVID-related), particularly in the context of uncertainty and changing information and misinformation. It also will examine what tools exist to help people in this regard.

Speaker: Dolores Albarracín, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

Speaker: Shawnika Hull, PhD, Assistant Professor, Communication, Rutgers School of Communication and Information, New Brunswick, NJ