Making Sense of Resource Abundance during COVID-19

By Margaret MoakleyMay 18, 2020With offices closed and many of us settling into our new normal, we open our inboxes each morning to find a barrage of information on COVID-19. Emails on what to expect, tip sheets with coping strategies, and think-pieces from the likes of Bill Gates himself.The amount of information being produced and distributed in response to the pandemic is undeniably overwhelming. As part of IntraHealth International’s knowledge management team, the process of sifting through an excess of information is not at all unfamiliar.However, COVID-19 presents a unique challenge—the world’s attention is on this singular topic, creating a surplus of information that exceeds the threshold of usefulness and begins to feel unnecessary and even burdensome.Early in the pandemic, our knowledge management team recognized the overflow of information coming across our (at-home) desks and understood the impact it could have on our colleagues. We wanted to ease this burden by working behind the scenes to present information in a digestible format. To do so, we have created repositories of webinars, technical resources, scholarly articles, and more on our organization’s SharePoint. Additionally, we’re disseminating a weekly email with no more than seven resources each week. Our content is limited to global health (surprise, that’s a hot topic right now!) and IntraHealth’s key initiatives, such as frontline health...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: news