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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsThe newly emergent human virus SARS-CoV-2 is resulting in high fatality rates and incapacitated health systems. Preventing further transmission is a priority. The paper analyzed key parameters of epidemic spread to estimate the contribution of different transmission routes and determine requirements for case isolation and contact-tracing needed to stop…
This contributing paper paper offers an analysis of the global COVID-19 experience and stepwise implementing consequences which will require a long-term effort involving scientists, decision-makers, and many more. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stress test for global society, with implications that go beyond the field of global health risks.…
This 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…
This work offers the first to our knowledge fullfledged review of the most concrete digital contact tracing architectures proposed by governments so far in a global scale to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are rushing to devise or embrace novel surveillance mechanisms and monitoring systems to fig…
Due to the importance of managing communicable diseases (CD) in disaster situations, the Center for Communicable Diseases Management (CCDM) within the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Islamic Republic of Iran, has taken measures to improve routine communicable diseases management systems in normal and emergency situation.
This study aims…
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…
During these challenging times, in which we live the COVID-19 outbreak, the digital world is increasingly becoming our reality.
Now that we are confined to our homes, technology is an ally to keep us connected and a refuge from a world that is shaken.
COVID-19 led countries to adopt different strategies to deal with the outbreak. The implementation o…
In this report, the Science and Technology Committee of the United Kingdom Parliament examines what lessons have been drawn from the Ebola outbreak last year concerning the use of scientific advice in the UK for similar disease outbreak emergencies in future. It explores the UK's preparedness for major disease outbreaks, the response framework and a cha…