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Displaying 10 of about 10 resultsThis handbook describes an ECDC-developed Microsoft Excel tool for the prioritisation of infectious disease threats. The tool is based on multi-criteria decision analysis. It ranks infectious disease threats in a transparent, comparable and methodologically reproducible manner. The tool enables the relative ranking of different infectious disease threat…
This paper aims to share reflections and learning about the urban nature of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak by looking at the case of the urban informal settlement of West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. In doing so, it aims to improve future urban public health responses. It builds on existing learning around the EVD response, focusing on urban issues…
This report summarizes the lessons learnt from the 2015-2016 El Niño event and represents a one UN approach to put these lessons into practice to reduce the impacts of future extreme climate events, and to help enhance the resilience of people across the Asia-Pacific Region. The report highlights key achievements in science and technology for under…
This report details the findings of our study on Kenya's preparedness for floods, drought and disease outbreaks – human and animal. It looks at preparedness at the national and subnational level focusing on Mandera and Migori counties. The study assesses preparedness under different frameworks:
governance and legal;
preparedness capacity;
linkages…
The purpose of this simulation exercise handbook is to support organisations in the public health sector in strengthening their response to events involving communicable diseases, based on effective simulation exercises as a part of preparedness. This handbook is meant to serve as a guide on:
how to guarantee strategic-level support of decision…
This five-year strategic plan (NICCP17-22) aims to coordinate resource mobilization and implementation of priority-targeted cholera prevention and control interventions across all levels (national, district, and community) in Uganda.
The major areas of focus for the plan will be:
Social mobilization and community empowerment (health promotion &…
This publication discusses climate change as a major challenge facing public health. The study explores how national-level public health adaptation is occurring in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, examines the roles of national governments in public health adaptation, and appraises three key governance dimensions o…
This report documents the preliminary scoping exercise, several days of field work and subsequent additional research of a community risk assessment in Los Angeles, Cape Town. It includes detailed information on the hazards identified by Los Angeles community members, their perceptions of the root causes of these hazards, temporal trends and historical…
With funding from the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS), on 24–25 August 2016 the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Global Health Centre (GHC) at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, in collaboration with the JS & Associates Centre for Governance and Security Policy (CGSP) in Si…
The aim of this document is to highlight preparedness activities that can effectively contribute to reduce the risk of importation and local transmission of pathogens transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes Albopictus. The main diseases of concern in this context are Zika, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever.
This document focuses mainly on t…