A5089003048- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
Georgetown University Medical Center
2025
Center for Global Health
2023-2025
Georgetown University
2023-2025
During the Covid-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) was an important public source of information – not only about but also thousands other potential health emergencies. Here, we examine 242 reports published in WHO Disease Outbreak News (DON) during first four years pandemic (2020 to 2023), and document diseases regions that were reported. We find multinational epidemics like Ebola virus MERS-CoV continue dominate DON. However, recent have seen more climate-sensitive infectious...
Abstract As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in spring of 2020, governments around world began to implement policies mitigate and manage outbreak. Significant research efforts were deployed track analyse these real-time better inform response. While much policy analysis focused narrowly on social distancing measures designed slow spread disease, here, we present a dataset capturing breadth types implemented by jurisdictions globally across whole-of-government. COVID Analysis Mapping Policies...
Abstract As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in spring of 2020, governments around world began to implement policies mitigate and manage outbreak. Significant research efforts were deployed track analyse these real-time better inform response. While much policy analysis focused narrowly on social distancing measures designed slow spread disease, here, we present a dataset capturing breadth types implemented by jurisdictions globally across whole-of-government. COVID Analysis Mapping Policies...
Abstract During the Covid-19 pandemic, World Health Organization (WHO) was faced with task of regular public updating—about both pandemic itself, and hundreds or potentially thousands other health emergencies. Here, we examined 242 reports published in WHO Disease Outbreak News (DON) during first four years (2020 to 2023), document diseases regions that were reported. We find multinational epidemics like Ebola virus MERS-CoV continue dominate DON. However, recent have also seen more...