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Displaying 15 of about 16 resultsTOKYO -- The establishment of a new organization in Japan integrating the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) and the National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) was officially decided on May 31 in preparation for a new infectious disease crisis.[...]The new organization is said to be a "Japanese version of the CDC" in line with t…
SARS, Ebola and COVID-19 have tested the world's ability to deal with outbreaks and pandemics.
A global pandemic preparedness system needs sustained political will and investment to ensure the global healthcare supply chain can effectively respond to a crisis.
If we don't get serious about pandemic preparedness now, millions more lives will be at st…
This case study follows this collaboration from initial discussions and workshops, through to the use of SCOPE in various disaster responses in the Philippines, and to WFP’s local government capacity strengthening and its ongoing role helping the Government develop its own beneficiary management system. Providing food and cash assistance to populations…
This study proposes a novel typology of adaptation to hazards—a conversion strategy as a countermeasure to manage risks in interconnected supply chains. Conversion strategies are intended to transform one or multiple supply chain functions for a different one to manage the changing environment. Supply chain disruptions due to natural hazards have been r…
The concept of austerity featured prominently in the first round of hearings of the UK’s COVID inquiry, which has recently come to a close. Notably, former chancellor George Osborne claimed that austerity had a “positive” effect on the UK’s ability to withstand the pandemic.Our reading of the evidence is that the austerity policies initiated after 2010…
This paper argues that to build resilience to future climate extreme events and multi-hazards, it is essential to establish a systemic approach across sectors at the city scale. The City of Cape Town recently endured an extreme drought, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a series of interviews and engagements with senior government officials, a…
Time8:30 PM EDTRegister hereThis report examines the economic consequences and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in six East Asian economies: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. These countries, while geographically close to each other, experienced the crisis differently and implemented a variety of measure…
Georgetown University announces the launch of Analysis and Mapping of Policies for all Emerging Infectious Diseases (AMP for EID), a first-of-its-kind policy platform to enhance preparedness, prevention, and response efforts for emerging infectious diseases, including SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Covid-19. With over seventy international agreements relat…
This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-border risks: electricity supply shortage, nuclear accident, pandemic, severe space weather, and volcanic outbreak.
The report finds…
The UK’s COVID inquiry is putting pandemic policymaking under the microscope. One of the key questions is who should make decisions in an emergency, and how.In a government committee hearing before the inquiry began, Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to Boris Johnson, suggested a “kind of dictator” should be in charge in such times of crisis, relyi…
Focusing on COVID-19, this article illuminates comparative insights into resilience governance in England and how the regional soft spaces of local resilience forums differentially experienced this momentous disruptive event. The pandemic has exposed the limited ability of these regional soft spaces to enhance resilience to disruptions and thus narrow t…
Access hereThis training serves as an introductory training for urban leaders, planners and practitioners, aiming to (1) Increase the understanding and capacities to manage complex and systematic disaster risks, enhance public health emergency response preparedness, and South-South cooperation, (2) Better prepare city stakeholders for transitioning to l…
Malawi is the first country in Africa to utilize the recently updated Global Task Force for Cholera Control tool to identify priority areas for multi-sectoral interventions (PAMIs, also called hotspots) for cholera control. A timely approach as the country embarks on a roadmap to develop a multi-sectoral cholera control strategy.Dr Fred Kapaya, a choler…
This volume examines: (a) the links between impacts on firms and households, in particular through the employment channel, and (b) governments’ fiscal responses to the COVID crisis, through transfers, subsidies, and taxes. It identifies and explains changes in household well-being by examining the economic effects of the pandemic on labor markets.More t…
This report dissects the COVID-19 countermeasures successfully adopted in Korea. The response of the government of the Republic of Korea to COVID-19 has been heralded as among the most successful. In the first two years of the pandemic, the government was able to keep the size of the outbreak relatively small and the death toll relatively low.The Korean…