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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsFollowing the fast developments related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Afghanistan (AKAH, A) presented ActivityInfo to the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan (MoPH) as a solution and the teams jointly worked on streamlining data management related to COVID-19 data in the 34 provinces of the country. In March 20…
This paper captures, identifies , and describes the patterns of longitudinal risk communication from public health communicating agencies on Twitter during the first 60 days of the response to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. They collected 138,546 tweets from 696 targeted accounts from February 1 to March 31,2020, employing…
This note is intended to provide practical guidance to UNDP Country Offices on how to design effective rapid responses to information pollution and how to situate those in longer-term approaches. As such it provides both immediately practicable intervention approaches as well as longer-term programmatic considerations. Specifically…
Digital epidemiology has been in use for more than a quarter-century but several countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Focusing on core public health functions of case detection, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine, the authors explore ethical concerns raised by digita…
The paper outlines the ways in which different types of mobile phone data can help to better target and design measures to contain and slow the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The authors identify the key reasons why this is not happening on a much broader scale:
Governments and public authorities frequently are unaware an…
In this research, the authors examine message features shown in prior disasters to increase or decrease message retransmission under imminent threat conditions to develop models of official risk communicators’ messages shared online from February 1, 2020-April 30, 2020. They develop a lexicon of keywords associated with risk communication about th…
Trusted, accurate, simple, and widely shared risk information saves lives, particularly when it reaches ‘the last mile’ and is used by vulnerable communities. This is the case in all communities, countries and disasters, including during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
However, several weeks into this global crisis, it is also clear that a ‘parallel un…