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Pandemic preparedness and pandemic arrival: an ethnographic observation. [PDF]

J Biosoc Sci
Kamara FM.
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Measuring the burden of infodemics with a research toolkit for connecting information exposure, trust, and health behaviours

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background During a public health emergency, accurate and useful information can be drowned out by questions, concerns, information voids, conflicting information, and misinformation.
Adam G. Dunn, Tina D. Purnat, Atsuyoshi Ishizumi, Tim Nguyen, Sylvie Briand   +4 more
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WHO competency framework for health authorities and institutions to manage infodemics: its development and features

Human Resources for Health, 2022
Background In April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Information Network for Epidemics produced an agenda for managing the COVID-19 infodemic. “Infodemic” refers to the overabundance of information—including mis- and disinformation.
Sara Rubinelli, Tina D. Purnat, Elisabeth Wihelm, Denise Traicoff, Apophia Namageyo-Funa, Angus Thomson, Claire Wardle, Jaya Lamichhane, Sylvie Briand, Tim Nguyen   +9 more
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The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework: strengthening laboratory and surveillance capacities in the Western Pacific Region, 2014–2017

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2020
The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework Partnership Contribution Scheme has enabled countries to further strengthen their preparedness capacities in the areas of laboratory and surveillance, burden of disease estimation, regulatory capacity ...
Hitesh Chugh, Gina Samaan, Tatiana Resnikoff, Isabel Bergeri, Jennifer Barragan, Erica Dueger   +5 more
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A New Paradigm for Pandemic Preparedness

Current Epidemiology Reports, 2023
AbstractPurpose of ReviewPreparing for pandemics requires a degree of interdisciplinary work that is challenging under the current paradigm. This review summarizes the challenges faced by the field of pandemic science and proposes how to address them.Recent FindingsThe structure of current siloed systems of research organizations hinders effective ...
Fefferman, Nina H., McAlister, John S., Akpa, Belinda S., Akwataghibe, Kelechi, Azad, Fahim Tasneema, Barkley, Katherine, Bleichrodt, Amanda, Blum, Michael J., Bourouiba, L., Bromberg, Yana, Candan, K. Selçuk, Chowell, Gerardo, Clancey, Erin, Cothran, Fawn A., DeWitte, Sharon N., Fernandez, Pilar, Finnoff, David, Flaherty, D.T., Gibson, Nathaniel L., Harris, Natalie, He, Qiang, Lofgren, Eric T., Miller, Debra L., Moody, James, Muccio, Kaitlin, Nunn, Charles L., Papeș, Monica, Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch., Pasquale, Dana K., Reed, J. Michael, Rogers, Matthew B., Schreiner, Courtney L., Strand, Elizabeth B., Swanson, Clifford S., Szabo-Rogers, Heather L., Ryan, Sadie J.   +35 more
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Pandemic Preparedness in Animal Facilities [PDF]

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 2021
Coping ethically with dramatic changes such as those occurring in times of pandemics is a difficult challenge for animal facilities and for researchers using animals for scientific purposes. Managing such situations is impossible without a specific contingency plan.
Hervé, Lerat, Philippe, Delis, James, Bussell, Patrick, Gonin   +3 more
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The Immunologists’ Guide to Pandemic Preparedness [PDF]

Trends in Immunology, 2021
Immunologists are central to fighting any pandemic. From pathogenesis to disease modeling, pharmaceuticals to vaccines, immunologists play a crucial role in translating basic science into effective response strategies. This article describes our view on how lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can be developed into an ...
Marín-Hernández, Daniela, Hupert, Nathaniel, Nixon, Douglas F.   +2 more
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Real-World Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Two Doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination in Children Aged 5–11 Years

Vaccines, 2022
There are limited data concerning the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines in children. A total of 110 children, 5–11 years old were vaccinated with two doses (with a 3-week interval between doses) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 ...
Gili Joseph, Elisheva Klein, Yaniv Lustig, Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Keren Asraf, Victoria Indenbaum, Sharon Amit, Or Kriger, Mayan Gilboa, Yuval Levy, Itai M. Pessach, Yitshak Kreiss, Gili Regev-Yochay, Michal Stein   +13 more
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Pandemic preparedness and forecast [PDF]

Nature Microbiology, 2018
Geographic mapping of pathogen emergence risk, as recently done for viral haemorrhagic fever in Africa, provides an important tool for targeting interventions. More comprehensive preparedness and prediction systems that increase surveillance and forecast infectious disease outbreak growth and spread in real time are also needed.
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Influenza Pandemic Preparedness

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
In the list of potential bioterrorist agents, influenza would be classified as a category C agent (1). While previous influenza pandemics were naturally occurring events, an influenza pandemic could be started with an intentional release of a deliberately altered influenza strain.
Kathleen F. Gensheimer, Martin I. Meltzer, Alicia S. Postema, Raymond A. Strikas   +3 more
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