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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThis report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being employed to enhance disaster risk reduction, providing evidence that science is useable for disaster…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and the International Health Regulations (WHO, 2005) include biological hazards, such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, among the major sources of risks for the 21st century. While COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by this most recent coronavirus, was declared by the World Health Organizati…
The rapid pace of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) presents challenges to the robust collection of population-scale data to address this global health crisis. The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) consortium was established to bring together scientists with expertise in big data research and epidemiology to de…