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Liaison with schools: disseminating ASSET to students

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 08:17

As a part of the ASSET project, the European Institute of Women’s Health were tasked with liaising with local schools to disseminate the activities of the ASSET project. The schools were to have received funding under the Erasmus Plus programme, which is the programme that combines all the EU’s current schemes for education, training, youth and sport in Europe.

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Target: 
Citizens, School and Education
Topic: 
Gender, Local Activities, Stakeholders
Tags: 
school, gender issues, zika, Ebola, SARS, H1N1, science-in-society

Zika: an emerging disease to be tackled both in laboratories and in society

January 24, 2017

Ilaria Capua, as director of the One Health Excellence Centre at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, USA, is very busy in coordinating interdisciplinary research, facing the epidemic of zika virus disease spreading in South America and the Caribbean and reaching Florida. Scientists are testing new diagnostic tests and working on vaccines, but the risk of serious birth defects in the offspring of infected pregnant women calls also for responsible procreative choices, involving lawmakers, governments and religious leaders as well.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, zika, Vaccine, science-in-society
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Too long time for a new vaccine in case of an emerging infectious threat

November 9, 2016

In 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic, vaccines were ready and could be supplied only when the peak of the pandemic was already decreasing in most European countries, discouraging people from getting vaccinated. Since the disease was not as severe as it was feared in the beginning, the consequences of this delay were not that serious, even if some lives could have been saved if the vaccines were available in advance. Ebola vaccine also arrived to West Africa when the epidemic was over, while a zika vaccine is still very far away. According to Thomas Breuer, however, GSK Chief Medical Officer, in case of another flu pandemic, a better cooperation among stakeholders and new technologies could accelerate the production and supply of new vaccines.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, H1N1, pandemic, flu, influenza, swine flu, Ebola, zika, Vaccine
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Zika and the Olympic Games. An example of graphic journalism

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 17:33

In recent years – mainly thanks to the communicative dynamics of the web – drawings, graphs and visualizations have become a powerful way to spread news and information. Social networks are overflowed by memes and animated gifs, and several journals, both digital and paper, make use of infographic to depict concepts and information revealed by large amount of data.

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Target: 
Citizens, School and Education
Topic: 
Media, Microbiology
Tags: 
zika, comics

The Emerging Zika Pandemic. Enhancing Preparedness

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 15:59

Lucey DR, Gostin LO. JAMA. 2016 Mar 1;315(9):865-6.

Source: 
Scientific literature
Tags: 
zika, Preparedness
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Zika - Strategic response framework & joint operations plan

Monday, July 11, 2016 - 14:53

WHO. 2016. Zika – Strategic response framework & joint operations plan.

Source: 
Health authorities
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
WHO, zika, Surveillance, Preparedness
PDF icon zikaresponseframework_janjun16_eng.pdf
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Zika won’t stop Olympic games

Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 08:03

A debate is ongoing if Olympic Games should be cancelled, moved or delayed because of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared by WHO on 1st February 2016 on microcephaly in Brazil, which is being proven to be associated with Zika infection. On May 25th, 150 experts in bioethics, public health and social sciences signed an open letter to the WHO, asking to skip the Games, in order to avoid a further spread of the epidemic.

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Prevention
Tags: 
zika, Risk perception, Risk management, WHO, transparency, Uncertainty

Zika, or the burden of uncertainty

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 09:30

Clin Ter. 2016;167(1):7-9.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
zika
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Twitter, tweets and influencers

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 15:57

How many ways are there to tell a story and who will do it? In these months we tried to answer those questions by running an analysis of the most relevant tweets and accounts about some key words, chosen by the editorial board, focused on Zika virus and vaccines. We then developed an application to identify the most influential Twitter users on specific topics, according to a list of hashtag we have provided.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Twitter, Social media, zika, Vaccine

WHO launched an app against Zika

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 14:55

During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) developed an application that allowed people to share information on the spread of the contagion, which proved to be very useful to monitor the situation. Now that the Zika virus outbreak is raising concerns, would it be possible to use a similar approach? Some weeks ago, the experts of the CDC argued that developing an app to track the spread of Zika virus would not be as effective as it was with Ebola.

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Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
zika, WHO, CDC, Ebola

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