Robb Butler

Robb Butler

Robb Butler is the executive director of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. He is a social scientist and public health promotion adviser with over 25 years of international experience working in public health, social protection, and humanitarian assistance in developing and transitional member states. Butler’s areas of experience and knowledge include behavioral/community insight methodology and social science interventions for public health.

Latest Articles

Opinion: How disciplined guesswork can combat the next infodemic

Opinion: How disciplined guesswork can combat the next infodemic

about 3 years ago // Media and Communications

Infodemics, for example those linked to global health issues, flourish in the expectation gap between an idealized faith in science and the hard realities of what science can produce at short notice. Have we learned the lessons from past pandemics?