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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Pandemic Response"”.
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Operational, Tactical, and Strategic Planning for Effective Pandemic Response
… strategies, models, and frameworks to guide pandemic response. The first paper uses a novel mathematical model to analyze the coordination between government and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in response to pandemics. This is a vital form of public-private partnership …
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Advancing Pandemic Response: Integrated Strategies for Testing, Prediction, and Bias Mitigation
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, along with prior outbreaks such as SARS and Ebola, has revealed critical gaps in global pandemic preparedness, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches to infectious disease management. This dissertation addresses three key areas of pandemic response: developing …
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Developments in Complex Systems Science with Applications to Political Systems and Pandemic Response
… general modeling principles using examples from pandemic response, including an illustration of how pandemics can be stably eliminated with a combination of social distancing measures and travel restrictions and how bad science led to bad policy regarding the use of face masks. Applications to …
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RE-IMAGINING SPACES IN A PANDEMIC RESPONSE : THE SCHOOL INFIRMARY AND THE STADIUM CREMATORIUM
The thesis envisions a pandemic scenario for Singapore and proposes a systematic crisis preparedness and response plan for the population. National assessments estimate that 1.3 million people will be infected, amongst which 6,000 will die. The thesis focuses on these consequences as such: how can …
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Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures on deaf adults in Cape Town
… have been disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, there is currently no research published within the South African context. Deaf people, as both part of the disability community and a linguistic minority, have faced unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, largely due to …
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COVID-19 and the decline of autonomy: contact tracing in the age of surveillance capitalism
To develop successful COVID-19 pandemic response models, governments and policy makers are expanding on the known means of public health surveillance by collaborating with privately owned corporates and implementing new forms of surveillance technology, namely, contact tracing applications. This …
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INDONESIAN NATIONAL ARMED FORCES EFFECTIVENESS IN THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE/DISASTER RELIEF ROLES
… of the 2004 Aceh Earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic response. Applying Matei and Halladay’s military effectiveness framework—which emphasizes strategic planning, organizational structure, and resource availability—this study evaluates the extent to which coordination between civilian …
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“This pen is more important than this firearm”: Exploring security sector governance in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
… (SSG) in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing specifically on the roles, responsibilities, experiences, and perceptions of members of the South African Police Service (SAPS). Set against the backdrop of an unprecedented public health crisis, the research examines how a highly …
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The Evolving Roles of School Librarians in Diverse Instructional Settings
… settings diversified worldwide due to COVID-19 pandemic-response. During the 2021-2022 school year, a new instructional setting of K-12 remote-synchronous learning launched in a progressive, southeastern U.S. public school district. Substantial school district realignment occurred to serve this …
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Redeployment to COVID-19 Workforces: The Lived Experiences of Public Health Nurses
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on healthcare systems globally. Public health nurses (PHNs) have been especially impacted as many transitioned from non-clinical roles to the frontlines of the pandemic. Available research focuses predominately on redeployed healthcare providers …
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Leadership Characteristics of Nurse Managers Associated with Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice
… with implementation of EBP during the COVID-19 pandemic response through a multi-site descriptive correlational survey of NMs and their nursing staff. Results of these studies demonstrate the importance of NM leadership characteristics and behaviors on EBP implementation.
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Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in England from randomly sampled prevalence surveys
Surveillance is a crucial component of a pandemic response, informing public health and wider policy. Unfortunately, it is often subject to reporting and behavioural biases, reducing its robustness. The CIS (Coronavirus Infection Survey) was a large-scale, longitudinal prevalence survey, with …
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Competencies and applicability of the Master of Public Health (MPH) qualification. A qualitative study of graduates from South African Universities
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical role of public health professionals in mitigating the crisis and exposed significant weaknesses in global healthcare systems. Graduates with Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees and other public health qualifications played pivotal roles …
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Antimalarial Afterlives: Medicine for a Planetary Age from Madagascar
… Madagascar. Focusing on the island’s Covid-19 response, which revolved around the commercialization of “homegrown” pandemic therapeutics, I examine what made rapid development of “Made in Madagascar” medicines possible over the long durée as well as the social, political, religious, and …
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Elementary Principals' Perceptions of Technology Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Virginia
… as technology leaders during the COVID-19 global pandemic. This study focused on three research questions: 1) What technology leadership requirements did elementary principals feel were emphasized due to the COVID-19 pandemic? 2) What level of support and preparedness did elementary school …
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Kinship Infrastructure Design: Evaluating Diversity and Resilience in Emergency Response Systems Through Agent-Based Modeling
… case study applies KID to a simulated wildfire response scenario, and models firefighting agents such as helicopters, firetrucks, bulldozers, and construction crews. These are encoded with traits like speed and suppression capability to calculate kinship coefficients for different …
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Design of Selective Plasmodium falciparum Kinase Inhibitors using Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
… part of this project was to virtually screen the Pandemic Response Box (PRB) for potential PfPI4K and/or PfPKG inhibitors. Of the 400 compounds in the PRB, 21 were selected for enzymatic screening after virtual screening using the PvPKG crystal structure and the PfPI4K homology model. Four hits …
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Using proxy markers from routine diagnostic PCR testing to assess the disease severity of new SARS-CoV-2 variants
… scientific colleagues in time to influence the pandemic response.
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A case study of interorganizational collaboration, boundary spanning, and professions in the Covid-19 pandemic
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01