The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has launched a mobile app – “Cranky Uncle Vaccine Game” to equip individuals with the skills to identify misinformation.
It will also enable them to understand vaccine safety, efficacy and importance while exposing misleading techniques of science denial.
Dubbed: “Leveraging technology to combat vaccine misinformation,” it will help address the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation regarding vaccines and its detrimental impact on public health.
The programme was organised by the GHS in collaboration with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The app was developed by UNICEF, in partnership with the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Irimi and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Dr John Cook.
The game is based on the science of inoculation theory and is an approach to building public resilience against misinformation.
It combines evidence, humour, cartoons and critical thinking to introduce players to different disinformation techniques used in vaccine disinformation globally.
The game is based on key two characters – a cranky uncle and a health worker.
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