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Guidry, J., Vraga, E. K., Laestadius, L. I., Miller, C. A., Occa, A., Nan, X., Ming, H. M., Qin, Y., Fuemmeler, B. F., & Carlyle, K. E. (2020). HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest: Before and After Pinterest’s Actions to Moderate Content. American journal of public health, 110(S3), S305–S311. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305827

Vraga, E. K., Tully, M., & Bode, L. (2020). Empowering users to respond to misinformation about Covid-19. Media and communication (Lisboa), 8(2), 475-479. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.3200 The misinformation around Covid-19 made it particularly difficult for the scientific community to mitigate the spread of the disease as they depended on public cooperation which was being shaped by an

Vraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2020). Correction as a solution for health misinformation on social media. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S3), S278-S280. https://doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2020.305916 In this article, we explain Observational Correction as a means of reducing misperceptions caused by misinformation on its viewers. Observational Correction happens when a viewer, seeing someone else being corrected

Vraga, E. K., Kim, S. C., Cook, J., & Bode, L. (2020). Testing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type on Instagram. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 25(4), 632–652. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220919082 This study aims to understand how Observational Correction occurs on visual platforms like Instagram. To account for its unique features, our corrections are humorous in nature and

Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Albarracín, D., Amazeen, M. A., Kendeou, P., Lombardi, D., Newman, E. J., Pennycook, G., Porter, E. Rand, D. G., Rapp, D. N., Reifler, J., Roozenbeek, J., Schmid, P., Seifert, C. M., Sinatra, G. M., Swire-Thompson, B., van der Linden, S., Vraga, E. K., Wood, T. J., Zaragoza,

Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Schmid, P., Holford, D. L., Finn, A., Leask, J., … & Vraga, E. K. (2021). The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook. A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation.

Quadri, N. S., Thielen, B. K., Crichlow, R., Rheault, M., Vraga, E. K., Cohen, E. L., … & Krohn, K. (2021). 12 Tips for Engaging Medical Students in Health Communications. MedEdPublish, 10(48), 48. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2021.000048.1

Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2021). People-powered correction: Fixing misinformation on social media. In The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism (pp. 498-506). Routledge. 

Calleja, N., AbdAllah, A., Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Albarracin, D., Altieri, E., … & Purnat, T. D. (2021). A public health research agenda for managing infodemics: methods and results of the first WHO infodemiology conference. JMIR infodemiology, 1(1), e30979. https://doi.org/10.2196/30979 In this article, we advocate for a swiss cheese model of mitigating online misinformation i.e.