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Displaying 30 of about 132 resultsBy Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
Disease has afflicted humans ever since there have been human. Malaria and tuberculosis are thought to have ravaged Ancient Egypt more than 5,000 years ago. From AD 541 to 542 the global pandemic known as “the Plague of Justinian” is estimated to have ki…
With India declaring COVID-19 as a 'Notified Disaster', this one of its kind tracking initiative from the stable of the ‘Change Planet Partners Climate Innovation Foundation’ draws from the strategic pointers of a recent WHO Director – General’s speech and evidences what can be called an innovative 3 pronged ‘Pandemic Response Mechanism’ based on fronti…
By Clare Watson
As many countries emerge from lockdowns, researchers are poised to use genome sequencing to avoid an expected second wave of COVID-19 infections.
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Now, countries that have successfully suppressed infections are entering the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic — where there's a risk of new cases appearing as social restrictions ea…
By Brenda Wingfield, Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads around the world, causing the disease COVID-19, it is becoming ever clearer that the solutions to this pandemic will all be based on research.…
By Melanie Sison
Robots and artificial intelligence are being deployed across the globe in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Robotics are being used to sanitise hospitals, some of which use ultraviolet to clean, in a bid to minimise health workers’ exposure to the coronavirus.
In China, ground zero of the viral outbreak, ro…
By Ronit Langer
The global coronavirus response is providing a critical test bed for new technologies to detect, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases. But broader investments in public health are needed to capitalize on these advances.
It may be tempting to imagine a room of all-seeing officials managing the global response to the novel coronavirus…
By Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl, Brock University; Caitlin Ferreira, University of Cape Town, and Panom Gunawong, Chiang Mai University
In the wake of a disaster or crisis, people turn to trusted sources for information.
In today’s digitally connected world, those sources often take the form of social media platforms. These platforms allow fo…
By Yolanda E. Chan, Arman Sadreddin, Suchit Ahuja
Amid the horrific public health and economic fallout from a fast-moving pandemic, a more positive phenomenon is playing out: COVID-19 has provided opportunities to businesses, universities and communities to become hothouses of innovation.
Around the world, digital technologies are driving high-impact…
By Molly Chiu
Over the past year and a half, physicians, scientists and public health officials have jumped into action to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, Baylor College of Medicine brought health experts from the U.S. and France together for the COVID-19 Disaster Research and Prevention Symposium to present what they have learned during the pan…
The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence will be a global platform for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, creating shared and networked access to vital multi-sectoral data, driving innovations in data analytics and building the communities of practice needed to predict, prevent, detect, prepare for and respond to worldwide health threats.…
By Michael Ahn, Associate Professor and MPA Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts Boston
As countries around the world consider how best to reopen their countries, it’s worth considering how South Korea has been able to “flatten the curve” and even hold parliamentary elections without resorting to lockdowns.
After seeing an initi…
By Gabriel Wainer, Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
Lately, our daily lives include reading complex news items with analysis of curves, simulations and models of COVID-19. Municipal governments present predictions of possible outcomes from modelling, while provincial and national governments have press conferences d…
by Michael Szoenyi
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to be here to stay for longer. Much has been opined already on the economic and social impacts that the immediate fallout from the pandemic has. Governments and organizations alike are struggling to find the right balance between physical distancing measures / “lockdown” approaches and reopening…
By Dr Marietjie Botes
The most effective way to stop the spread of a virus is to prevent contact with everyone who is infected. Those who are infected can be isolated and treated if necessary. To determine who they are, it’s necessary to actively look for and manage cases.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging technologies are being repurposed to hel…
NIST researchers developed a cryptographic system using encounter metrics. Encounter ID is a way of labeling an encounter between two people through a random number not linked to the device each person carries. To generate the randomized number Z, each device calculates using their private info (a and b) and what the other device is broadcasting (X and…