Expertise in: Infodemiology, public health research and analysis, and fact-checking.

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.

Tina has worked for over 25 years at the WHO, European Union, and academia; her expertise brings together health research, analysis, and policy-making. She has worked across these to promote better use of data, health information, and evidence by patients, communities, health system, and policymakers. As part of the WHO COVID-19 response, she worked on developing and formulating WHO infodemic response and infodemic management strategies, for which she received the WHO Pathfinder and Innovation Award 2021.

She serves on the editorial board of the JMIR infodemiology and Blockchain in Health journals and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute for Digital Health.