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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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Impact of COVID-19 on health service utilisation in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2023
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in health systems of many countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite comparatively low rates of COVID-19 admissions and deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic still had a ...
John Amuasi, Reinhard Busse, Wilm Quentin, Elliot Koranteng Tannor, Daniel Opoku   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pandemic influenza control in Europe and the constraints resulting from incoherent public health laws [PDF]

, 2010
© 2010 Martin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Coker, R., Conseil, A., Duguet, A-M., Espin, J., Haringhuizen, G., Kodo, J., Lobato de Faria, P., Longstaff, A., Martin, R., Siegert, J.   +9 more
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Pandemic preparedness systems and diverging COVID-19 responses within similar public health regimes: a comparative study of expert perceptions of pandemic response in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Globalization and Health, 2022
Background National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic depend on national preparedness systems that must be understood as components of global public health emergency preparedness systems, governed and coordinated through the World Health Organization’s ...
Jakob Laage-Thomsen, S. Frandsen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40 ...
Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan   +31 more
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Causal systems mapping to promote healthy living for pandemic preparedness: a call to action for global public health

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2022
COVID-19 has severely impacted population health and well-being globally. Acknowledging that COVID-19 will not be the world’s last pandemic, improving healthy living factors (i.e., physical activity, healthful nutrition, healthy weight), which are ...
N. Pronk, M. Faghy
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Equitable Access to Antibiotics: A Core Element and Shared Global Responsibility for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2022
Securing equitable antibiotic access as an essential component for health system resilience and pandemic preparedness requires a systems perspective. This article discusses key components that need to be coordinated and paired with adequate financing and
Mengying Ren, A. So, S. Chandy, M. Mpundu, A. Peralta, Kerstin Åkerfeldt, Anna Karin Sjöblom, O. Cars   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interoperability of statistical models in pandemic preparedness: principles and reality. [PDF]

Statistical Science, 2021
We present interoperability as a guiding framework for statistical modelling to assist policy makers asking multiple questions using diverse datasets in the face of an evolving pandemic response.
G. Nicholson, M. Blangiardo, M. Briers, P. Diggle, T. E. Fjelde, Hong Ge, R. Goudie, R. Jersakova, R. King, B. Lehmann, A. Mallon, T. Padellini, Y. Teh, C. Holmes, S. Richardson   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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Is female genital mutilation/cutting associated with adverse mental health consequences? A systematic review of the evidence

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction The adverse physical consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have been thoroughly investigated and documented. Yet, we know little about the adverse mental health consequences of the practice.
Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla
doaj   +1 more source