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Displaying 15 of about 81 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
AbstractThe emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in late 2019 and its subsequent worldwide spread has emphasized the urgent need for better approaches for predicting and managing infectious disease outbreaks. One potential instrument in this effort is artificial intelligence (AI), and in specific, language models lik…
The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and the Indian government’s Earth System Science Organization umbrella agency that includes the country’s met department earlier this month signed an MoU “to share meteorological information and data to build local community resilience to disasters and health epidemics,” the IRCS announced yesterda…
In 2016, with support from WHO and partners, South Sudan was the first country in the world to roll out “EWARS in a box,” the early warning, alert and response system (EWARS) that permitted mobile phone-based reporting of priority outbreak-prone diseases from a number of partner-supported health facilities in the conflict-affected areas of the country.…
The Zika virus is one of the latest threats the University of Hawaiʻi managed Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is helping to combat with its global array of technological solutions and services.
The center has been monitoring and mapping outbreaks and providing regular products to the U.S. government as well as international agencies i…
A recently launched website 'Disaster Friendly Water and Sanitation' a joint initiative of Dhaka Ahsania Mission and Concern Bangladesh, is intended to help the process of formulating a coordinated disaster risk reduction strategy whilst strengthening field level activities.
A national advocacy campaign '2008 Year of Disaster Friendly Wat-San in Bangla…
By Tobias R. Keller, Visiting Postdoc, Queensland University of Technology; and Rosalie Gillett, Research Associate in Digital Platform Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure t…
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) together with WHO, through its headquarters and Regional Office for Europe, have developed the first indicator framework to evaluate the public health effectiveness of digital proximity tracing solutions.
Countries have readily employed innovative technologies throughout the COVID-19 pandemi…
By Peace A. Medie, Adriana Biney, Amanda Coffie et al.
As infections and the death toll for the new coronavirus pandemic mount, African countries have introduced measures to reduce the spread, raise awareness among communities and gain citizens’ compliance. But the potential contribution of traditional leaders has mostly not been considered. This is d…
In a typical year, there are hundreds of natural disasters with 12,000+ deaths. Pandemics now dwarf that figure with global mortality now exceeding 1.22 (Nov. 5, 2020) million. Blockchain technology, developed and proven over the last decade, offers unique capabilities to support rapid response to natural disasters, whether the incidence is a flood or t…
IIED's 2020 annual review showcases the institute's impacts in the face of changes and challenges brought by COVID-19. We presented stories of how we worked with partners for a better future in eight videos. This page is a written version for those with limited bandwidth.
From our director
2020 disrupted our plans, changed our ways of w…
In West and Central Africa, the spread of COVID-19 has been accompanied by a contagion of misinformation, creating fear and uncertainty among certain communities. In a region [West Africa] where an estimated 252 million people are unconnected to the internet, risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) is essential to e…
By Stefanie M. Falconi and Roshanak Nateghi
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
We need to mobilize knowledge and resources to act towards the collective good, utilizing the scientific community to combat both climate change and the pandemic
Stefanie M. Falconi is a Policy En…
By Florencio Travieso
The situation in which the world is currently living is extraordinary in every sense of the word: since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been over 53 million confirmed cases and more than 1.3 million people have died. After a round of lockdowns in the spring and deconfinements in the summer, the much-feared “secon…
By Siobhan Morris, Researcher, UCL and Olivia Stevenson, Head of Public Policy, UCL
If one thing is clear by now from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that the disease does not affect everyone equally.
Analysis from the Office for National Statistics starkly outlines that those living in areas with high levels of deprivation ar…