A5010758647- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- International Law and Human Rights
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Maritime Security and History
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Institute for International Political Studies
2019-2022
Abstract Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a crucial role in conducting Search and Rescue (SAR) operations off the Libyan coast, assisting almost 120,000 migrants between 2014 2019. Their activities, however, been increasingly criticized. The accusation that NGOs facilitate irregular migration has escalated into investigations by Italian Maltese courts various policy initiatives restricting non-governmental ships their access to European ports. Although all investigated date...
The implementation of preparedness strategies to prevent and mitigate the impact global health threats poses several challenges. It should promptly identify cross-cutting drivers pandemic threats, assess context-specific risks, engage multiple stakeholders, translate complex data from sources into accessible information for action. This requires a coordinated, multidisciplinary multisectoral effort engaging systems that, most time, work in isolation. One Health (OH) approach promotes...
Abstract In an ongoing epidemic, the case fatality rate is not a reliable estimate of disease’s severity. This particularly so when large share asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic patients escape testing, overwhelmed healthcare systems are forced to limit testing further severe cases only. By leveraging data on COVID-19, we propose novel way infected rate, true lethality disease, in presence sparse and partial information. We show that this feasible disease has turned into pandemic comes from...