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Displaying 135 of about 885 resultsThe Uniformed Services University’s (USU) National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) collaborated with the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP), the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) and the Substance A…
The measures enforced to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to dramatic changes in standard operating systems and the ordinary ways of doing businesses in all sectors that are established based on physical contacts and movements of people. This change is no exception in addressing natural disasters and managing disaster ri…
While the COVID-19 pandemic has spread like wild fire, some parts of the world have bucked the trend through careful planning, imaginative use of technology, efficient deployment of available resources, and community participation. Such efforts are leading to inspiring success stories. The state of Karnataka is located in the south-western region of Ind…
The One Health approach provides a platform to work on the interface between human, animal and plant health and their shared environment. Working on the synergies among these areas is key to preventing the outbreak, or mitigating the impact of new diseases. Under a One health approach, economic development and agriculture production pay attention to the…
Following 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…
The rapid review (and the policy brief) provides an overview of the physical distancing measures that have been implemented in South Asian countries to date and recommendations on approaches that can be employed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, with a specific set of recommendations for India.
This briefing paper was commissioned by the South Asia Re…
The COVID-19 pandemic has served to reveal the systemic nature of risk and highlights the exposure of these systems to all hazards. Its unprecedented cascading effects have impacted all sectors and levels of our economies and societies. The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction convey the reality that i…
The guide provides information about the tsunami's early warning to be issued in case of tsunami emergency, preparedness for tsunami evacuation that need to be organized by the local disaster management agencies with this COVID-19 situation, and guide how to evacuate the people during tsunami emergency based on their exposure to COVID-19. The Corona Vir…
This issue brief on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) focuses on the innovations which are protecting communities from cascading hazards, the challenges, and opportunities therein, and offers policy guidance to shape the future management of cascading hazards.
The proposed takeaways to scale up innovative solutions are:
Invest in complex risk scen…
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrupt children’s and young people’s normal support systems, l…
Climate-related disasters have different risk pathways from COVID-19, but they can intersect and converge with the pandemic in complex and destructive ways. Many communities are exposed to both, and the long-term consequences can be similar –damage to people’s health and livelihoods and their prospects of escaping poverty. How can governments respond to…
COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact. Since its onset, the Government of India, State Governments and local authorities have been directing all their efforts towards handling the crisis. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) will be releasing a series of arti…
This Operational Framework provides a practical reference toward achieving the aim of public health systems resilience and preparedness at the human-animal-environment interface, with the following key objectives:
Provide operational guidance to directly address the need for targeted investments that prevent, prepare, detect, respond to and reco…
This issue brief provides an overview of the health impacts of climate change in the U.S. state of Virginia. The brief includes a discussion of heat, coastal flooding, water- and food-borne illnesses, air quality, and vector-borne diseases.
Climate change is altering seasonal patterns, making our summers hotter, and fueling increased flooding…
This paper examines the extent to which social protection responses to the crisis have recognised and addressed the gendered impacts of the crisis. The impacts of the Covid-19 crisis have exacerbated gender inequalities. The rapid onset of the crisis in early 2020 severely disrupted livelihoods, and these impacts were strongly mediated by existing…