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Displaying 135 of about 140 resultsA new report has unified the WHO threat prevention model, after reviewing nearly 3,000 documents issued over the 23 years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic
Until now, no official pandemic model had been capable of recording the health alerts that are reported around the world on a daily basis, which sometimes number tens of thousands a day. The Covid…
by Will Rogers, Irish Red Cross
The Red Cross Red Crescent is bringing life-saving health information to the survivors of the Haitian earthquake through a partnership with a local telecommunications company.
Haitians can now call a free mobile phone number to receive updates on Red Cross Red Crescent work to stop the spread of diseases in the many c…
Today, there are ever more pressing needs for up-to-date information to be quickly available and easily accessible. This has never been more true than in the field of disasters, where slowness in sharing knowledge can be the difference between life or death for thousands of people, or the avoidance or mitigation of catastrophic outcomes for an ecosystem…
By Suresh Chandis
In Nepal, a local network called the “Accountability Lab Nepal” is using multi-way communication to eliminate information gaps between government and citizens and debunking rumours during the time of pandemic. Suresh and Bikin report
The Accountability Lab, founded in early 2012, is an effort to work with young people to develop new…
By Edd Gent
Phone calls to a health helpline are now being used to forecast dengue fever outbreaks up to three weeks in advance in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province.
Scientists from the Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, and New York University used call data to build a statistical model — described July in a paper in Scien…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
Announced today, the Civil Society Collaborative on Inclusive COVID-19 Data will work alongside marginalised communities and activists to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and collectively advocate for an inclusive recovery.
With COVID-19 pushing up to 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, t…
By Gerardo Fortuna
The EU’s preparedness for outbreaks of infectious disease has increased, but member states still need to overcome ethical, administrative, regulatory and logistic bottlenecks for boosting clinical research, medical experts said at a scientific meeting in Brussels.
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The main idea to emerge from the meeting…
UNESCO on 30 March hosted an online meeting of representatives of ministries in charge of science all over the world. Participants included 77 ministers, including governmental secretaries representing a total of 122 countries, as well as Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Sarah Anyang…
By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Belal Alsinglawi and Omar Mubin
The Australian government has launched an app offering up-to-date advice and information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Coronavirus Australia app, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play, was released alongside a new WhatsApp messaging feature.
As this pand…
By Joan Donovan, PhD, Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center
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In the middle of a massive and growing coronavirus shutdown, social media is more important than ever. With soft quarantines in place, Facebook, Twitter, and other services are taking on an entirely new valence as…
By Jon-Patrick Allem, Assistant Professor of Research, University of Southern California
Over the past few weeks, misinformation about the new coronavirus pandemic has been spreading across social media at an alarming rate. One video that went viral claimed breathing hot air from a hair dryer could treat COVID-19. A Twitter post touted…
Source of disease prevalence information impacts effectiveness of vaccination programs
Computational modeling of social networks suggests that vaccination programs are more successful in containing disease when individuals have access to local information about disease prevalence. Anupama Sharma of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, In…
By Inna Lazareva
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Marie-Claire Thérèse Fwelo, a WHO official who has worked on all nine Ebola outbreaks in her native DRC, said it was key to counter misinformation, citing rumours that the vaccine could make people sterile, or that Ebola was caused by a curse.
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Quick diagnosis is a challenge - the latest DRC outbreak may have gone undetec…
Researchers develop a predictive software system to identify city-specific, dengue fever risk areas amid a global increase in cases.
By Tim Hornyak
Dengue fever, usually seen in tropical and subtropical climates, has spread rapidly around the globe, and now about half the world’s population is at risk, according to the World H…