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In late March, we posed a hypothetical scenario to a sample of Australians, asking if they would download a contact tracing app released by the federal government; 70% responded in favour.
But a more recent survey, following the release of COVIDSafe, revealed only 44% of respondents had downloaded it.
The Australian gove…
Nigeria’s EPCON AI project has been cited as a world leading programme for pandemic preparedness by a new report.
Published today in the UK parliament ahead of World TB Day this Friday, the report highlights several areas where the World Health Organization-recommended programmes for strengthening pandemic preparedness overlap with existing tuberc…
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.…
In early 2022, nearly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, experts are mulling a big question: when is a pandemic “over”?
So, what’s the answer? What criteria should be used to determine the “end” of Covid’s pandemic phase? These are deceptively simple questions and there are no easy answers.
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The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in the area of public policy for global risk.
This position has funding available until 30 November 2022 in the first instance. The (Senior) Research Associate will work on some of the most important topics…
With up to 300 million scent receptors, dogs are among the best smell detectors in the animal world. The human nose, by comparison, contains only around 6 million scent receptors. Dog brains also devote 40% more brain space than humans to analyzing odors.
That’s why people train dogs to search for diverse targets via smell, from…
Dates: 9-10 February, 2022
Location: Online / Seoul, South Korea
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Under the theme “A human-centred future: Partnership for a smarter, greener and more inclusive ASEAN”, the Seoul Ministerial Conference will serve as an opportunity for Ministers and high-level representatives from Southeast Asian countries and OECD Members to ide…
Digital epidemiology has been in use for more than a quarter-century but several countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Focusing on core public health functions of case detection, contact tracing, and isolation and quarantine, the authors explore ethical concerns raised by digita…
By Qi Chen, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Penology, University of Hertfordshire
After Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, was put into lockdown on January 23, around 80 Chinese cities adopted stay-at-home measures. Most of these are now being lifted, although various local restrictions remain.
Much was made during…
By Marta Moreno Ibáñez, PhD candidate in Earth and atmospheric sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted several sectors and meteorology is no exception. The quality and quantity of the observational data that feed into weather forecasting models could well be affected by the pandemic, according to t…
By Gabriel A. Wainer
Las pandemias no son nuevas en la historia de la humanidad. Existen registros históricos acerca de los efectos de las pandemias que datan del año 3000 AC. Entre 1348 y 1350, la Peste Negra mató aproximadamente un cuarto de la población de Europa. Un siglo más tarde, diversas enfermedades mataron un gran porcenta…
By Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, Associate professor in management of information systems, Université de Montpellier
To control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 50 countries have implemented applications to trace the contacts of people who may be infected.
The installation and use of these applications are voluntary in…
By Ritesh Chugh
Australia has ruled out abandoning the government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app in favour of the rival “Gapple” model developed by Google and Apple, which is gaining widespread support around the world. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth told The Project the COVIDSafe app was “a great platform”.
In the two months…
By Noah Higgins-Dunn
A team of data scientists, physicians and engineers at New York City’s Mount Sinai Health System has created an app that aims to track the spread of COVID-19 in the city, considered the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak.
The hospital’s patients and city residents will be able to monitor their symptoms through a web-bas…
By Casey Ross, Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly accelerated the nation’s slow-moving effort to incorporate artificial intelligence into medical care, as hospitals grasp onto experimental technologies to relieve an unprecedented strain on their resources.
AI has become one of the first lines of defense in…