With credibility under attack and distrust and politicization running rampant, today’s researchers must learn how to navigate this landscape to become a credible force for facts and evidence. AcademyHealth's newest course, Communicating to Build Trust, was designed to meet this need, empowering researchers not to shy away from public communication, but to confidently step up to make a meaningful impact with their work.
More than ever, we need researchers who can communicate facts and evidence in a way that builds trust. It is not enough to send evidence into the world and hope it finds a useful home. Today’s researchers must learn how to navigate a landscape characterized by misinformation, mistrust, and frequent attacks on science and evidence.