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• Evolution of Viral Networks

  Tags Diagnosis, Ebola, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Medical Surveillance, Pandemic, Public Health, R-Gen, Respiratory Pathogen, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Virology
  Creator: NLM, NIH
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Video
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-29
  Description: This is a lecture that was the keynote of Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History. It focuses on H1N1, Ebola, and Zika.
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  Prioritizing diseases for research and development in emergency contexts

  Tags Coronavirus, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), Ebola, Epidemic, Experimental Drugs, Lassa, Marburg, Medical Surveillance, MERS-CoV, Mpox, Orthopox Virus, Outbreaks, Pandemic, Plague, Prophylaxis, Public Health, R-Gen, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS, Special Pathogens, Therapeutics, Vaccine Study, Variola, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: World Health Organization
  Subject: General
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2022
  Description: Worldwide, the number of potential pathogens is very large, while the resources for disease research and development (R&D) is limited. To ensure efforts under WHO’s R&D Blueprint are focused and productive, a list of diseases and pathogens are…
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  Public health interventions in pandemics and epidemics

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: The 21st century has witnessed changes - travel and trade, urbanization, environmental degradation and other trends that increase the risk of disease outbreaks, their spread and amplification into epidemics and pandemics. At the same time, the…

• Risk communication essentials

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Example, MERS-CoV, Pandemic, Public Health, R-Lead, R-T&E
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: Risk communication is a core public health intervention in any disease outbreak and health emergency. It refers to the real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions between experts, officials and people who face a threat to their wellbeing,…

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• Pandemic influenza: Introduction

  Tags Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, Public Health, R-Lead, R-T&E, Special Pathogens
  Creator: WHO
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-07-05
  Description: Pandemic influenza is an acute viral disease of the respiratory tract. It occurs when an influenza virus that was not previously circulating among people and to which most people have no immunity emerges and transmits among people. This course…

• Crises, Calamities, and Chaos: How Public Health Can Improve Response to Emerging Threats Wherever They Arise

  Tags Emergency Management, Epidemic, Pandemic, Public Health, R-EM
  Creator: Boston University
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Webinar
  Date Last Updated: 2018-04-30
  Description: From Ebola to Zika, from hurricanes to opioids, threats to health make headlines and challenge our public health response. Lessons learned from CDC’s engagements around the world, and in our backyard, suggest a role for everyone in mitigating risk…