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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.

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

Dramatic change in public attitudes towards vaccination during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in France

Peretti-Watel P, Verger P, Raude J, Constant A, Gautier A, Jestin C. Euro Surveill. 2013 Oct 31;18(44).

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, influenza, pandemic, H1N1

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

“Pandemic”: a misleading word

June 30, 2016

Albert Osterhaus, director of the Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ) in Hannover, Germany, and Chairman of the European Working group on Influenza (ESW), is one of the top virologist in the world, who has discovered more than 50 new viruses over the last decades. In this short video he explains why the word “pandemic” can be a cause of misunderstanding between health authorities and the public, as it happened in 2009, when the new emerging flu virus A(H1N1) turned out to be milder than expected in the beginning.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
Video, pandemic, H1N1

Is Zika epidemic a lose-lose game for WHO?

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 09:02

Declaring an emergency is a dirty work, but someone has to do it. When facing a serious threat to global public health, even if complete evidence is lacking, someone has to take the responsibility to push the red button that activates a chain of coordinated actions (such as cooperation among states and research on vaccines). Choosing to do this, the risk of giving a false alarm is unavoidable.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Media, Prevention
Tags: 
zika, H1N1, risk communication, Risk perception, WHO, gender issues, CDC

Intensive Care Units are a canary in a coal mine

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 17:54
H1N1 Influenza Virus Particles

During the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic, the issue of how many deaths were associated to the emerging virus was one of the main causes of misunderstanding between authorities and the general public, which ended in a worrying lack of trust. The pandemic, initially presented as a potential serious threat, in the end was no more severe than a common seasonal flu. Unfortunately, even nowadays, it is difficult to ascertain if and how much H1N1 pandemic was different from any other seasonal flu, based on official data.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Prevention
Tags: 
H1N1, flu, influenza, Surveillance

Final Symposium of the ECOM Project

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 13:00

Members of the ECOM project will gather for a final symposium on November 10th 2015 in Stockholm, prior to the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE). ECOM – which stands for Effective Communication in Outbreak Management – is an EU funded project that aims to develop strategies for improving risk-communication during major pandemic outbreaks in Europe.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
H1N1, risk communication

Science, H1N1 and society: Towards a more pandemic-resilient society

Final Report from the Expert Group on "Science, H1N1 and Society" . 2011 June 15. Science, H1N1 and society: Towards a more pandemic-resilient society.  

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
H1N1, pandemic, Society, influenza

Pandemic Preparedness and Response - Lessons from the H1N1 Influenza of 2009

Fineberg HV. N Engl J Med. 2014 Apr 3;370(14):1335-42.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
pandemic, influenza, H1N1

Academics and competing interests in H1N1 influenza media reporting

Mandeville KL, O'Neill S, Brighouse A, Walker A, Yarrow K, Chan K. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2014 Mar;68(3):197-203.

Background: Concerns have been raised over competing interests (CoI) among academics during the 2009 to 2010 A/H1N1 pandemic. Media reporting can influence public anxiety and demand for pharmaceutical products. We assessed CoI of academics providing media commentary during the early stages of the pandemic.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media
Tags: 
influenza, H1N1

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