Global health. The current scenario and future perspectives

308 like the University of Chile, and the particular attention to diverse audiences and publics targeted by these messages show the challenges communication represents in the field of global health. These dimensions are fundamental because, as discussed in this chapter, it does not suffice to share data or produce science-based information or evidence. Perception of risk, for instance, determines how people respond to crises (Glik, 2007). Therefore, it is crucial to deeply think about and learn from critical experiences, like those mentioned here and face the future in the fields of science, the environment, the use of technology and the role of communications within them. As science and technology journalist Daniel Silva says, “new pandemics will come” and we also face “climate and water crises, which are challenges for scientific journalism”. The collaborative scenario opened by the Covid-19 pandemic has fostered a certain democratization of access to and circulation of science. In part, because access to information coverage and scientific dissemination about the course of the pandemic and the search undertaken to better understand the origin, development and impact of the virus was release d 76 (Besançon et al., 2021). However, the right to access to health information is still lacking, as demonstrated by the fact that the Ministry of Health and its dependent offices are among those who most frequently apply information silence in response to requests for access to informatio n 77 . Despite high-quality research about informational disorders, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation are in good health. As this chapter has shown, such phenomena fuel a strident media ecosystem that does not always contribute to human well-being. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration is required, as demonstrated by the pandemic. We hope that this trend will be further deepened in the future. Practitioners and experts in science, technology, scholars, media, journalism and communications in their broadest and most diverse facets have begun to weave networks, to share knowledge and practices and to find common languages to address the crisis, but we think they need to go deeper and sophisticate their efforts. Ethical challenges in sciences and communications are acute. Material with recommendations and suggestions on how to better cover the 76 As in the cases of journals and magazines like Science , Nature or the National Geographic , as well as Chilean news outlets. 77 “FOIA requested by CIPER: The delivery of emails from high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Health during the pandemic has begun.”, Nicolás Sepúlveda, CIPER, June 8 th , 2022.