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How studying ecology could prevent another pandemic.
When you hear the word ecology, you probably don’t immediately associate the study of organisms and how they relate to their surroundings with infectious diseases.
But John Drake thinks maybe you should.
Drake, a Distinguished Research Professor of Ecology at the…
This study aims to determine how vegetation health affects the prevalence of malaria and create seasonal weather forecasts using NOAA/AVHRR environmental satellite data that can be substituted for malaria epidemic forecasts. Vegetation health (VH) is a powerful characteristic for forecasting malaria incidence in regionswhere the disease is prevalent. We…
By CEPI
OSLO, 10 March 2021 – CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, today launched a US$3.5bn plan to dramatically reduce or even eliminate the future risk of pandemics and epidemics, potentially averting millions of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic damage.
CEPI’s five-year plan sets out ambitious initiatives…
By Alexander Welscher
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only an impact on business and economy but also reshaped cyberspace. The increased use of digital technologies has become the “new normal“ in many organisations. This has created security blindspots for malicious actors that have set their sights also on the Baltics.
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Cybercriminals a…
This report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being employed to enhance disaster risk reduction, providing evidence that science is useable for disaster…
NAIROBI, August 8, 2016 - Two years after the largest ever outbreak of Ebola, the affected West African countries are moving to reduce mortality from future disaster events by bringing disaster risk management and health closer together.
The Ebola pandemic which started in March 2014 claimed a total of 11,310 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone a…
GENEVA, 22 May 2013 - The inventor of the world's first interactive digital globe that graphically depicts the vulnerability of our planet to disasters today challenged global policymakers to show more leadership in tackling the growing risks facing populations worldwide.
"What is important is not the technology but our vision for the future of the pla…
CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI), have announced a partnership to combine cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology with established laboratory techniques to speed up development of future vaccines against novel viral threats (also known as Disease X). HMRI wi…
From 30th January, 2020, i.e. the day on which India witnessed its first COVID-19 case, till today, the country has seen a lot of ups and downs – series of lockdowns, followed by a series of unlocks and now the second wave. COVID-19 has become of the worst crisis of recent times. ‘Uncertainty’, which has always been a preferred phra…
This publication discusses the measurement of aggregate levels of encounters in a population, a concept it calls encounter metrics. Encounter metrics are designed so that they can be deployed while preserving the privacy of individuals.
To this end, encounters are labeled with a random number that cannot be linked to anything that is broadcast at the t…
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 eventually combined with the monitoring of suitable tracers such as cross-assembly phage, pepper mild mottle virus or chemicals tracers related to human activities is a valuable and efficient tool to monitor virus circulation in European Union (EU) cities and towns. This report addresses the investigation of the too…
This work offers the first to our knowledge fullfledged review of the most concrete digital contact tracing architectures proposed by governments so far in a global scale to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are rushing to devise or embrace novel surveillance mechanisms and monitoring systems to fig…
Due to the importance of managing communicable diseases (CD) in disaster situations, the Center for Communicable Diseases Management (CCDM) within the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Islamic Republic of Iran, has taken measures to improve routine communicable diseases management systems in normal and emergency situation.
This study aims…
We are excited to share that our team has developed artificial intelligence-powered pandemics surveillance solution for early outbreak detection to stop the contagious illness from spreading in communities. The technology prototype is built and looking for further funds to complete product development and pilot study. As we all know, the COVID-19 has ca…
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the United Nations) are launching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Geospatial Applications for Disaster Risk Management”. This MOOC is a free and flexible online training programme available…