Thursday, June 10, 2021

Ready, Set ... Think! Hackathon Aims To Kill Off Fake Health Rumors

Students around the world were challenged to fight disease rumors in a 24-hour hackathon. From left: A proposed pill package featuring a Tanzanian comic character, designed by a team from Boston University. A board game to help teach kids about schistosomiasis created by students from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna.

How do you fight misinformation around neglected tropical diseases? In this competition, teams of college students across the globe had 24 hours to cook up a cool plan.

(Image credit: Caroline Pane and Sina Sajjadi)

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