Public Health Preparedness

Tunisia
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Tunisia: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Emily Hoch, Mahshid Abir
Jul 22, 2022
The RAND Blog
Tunisia's response to the COVID pandemic has been spotty, though vaccination rates have improved and mortality rates have dropped. When the political instability is factored in, Tunisia's emergence from the pandemic may not be quick.
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Jordan
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Jordan: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Nazia Wolters, Mahshid Abir
Jun 20, 2022
The RAND Blog
Lockdown restrictions that may have contributed to low COVID-19 case numbers in Jordan early in the pandemic resulted in economic stresses and increased psychological distress in the general population. RAND researchers identified challenges faced by Jordanians during the crisis and the country's innovative and equitable response to mitigate them.
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Qatar
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Qatar: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Hamad Al-Ibrahim, Nazia Wolters, Mahshid Abir
Jun 9, 2022
The RAND Blog
Qatar adopted a spectrum of policies and health measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 and encouraged its innovation ecosystem to play a role in fighting the pandemic. The health sector has gained experience during the pandemic that might inform response to future spikes in demand for health system resources.
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Lebanon
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Lebanon: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Nasma Berri, Mahshid Abir
May 6, 2022
The RAND Blog
In Lebanon, COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and daily deaths continue to decline. This is an accomplishment worthy of celebration in the midst of hyperinflation, all-time high unemployment, nadir purchasing power, and a health sector on the verge of collapse.
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Iran
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Iran: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Nazia Wolters, Emily Hoch, Mahshid Abir
Apr 20, 2022
The RAND Blog
Iran has faced an uphill battle since the first cases of COVID-19 were found in the country. Despite limited resources, Iran has also had its share of successes and innovations in combating the virus.
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Refugees
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Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 1, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on how to help Ukrainian refugees, the link between cognitive processes and Truth Decay, tracking wastewater to understand the spread of COVID-19, and more.
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Biosurveillance
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National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
Mar 24, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
For years, medical experts have used wastewater to track the spread of diseases. The National Wastewater Surveillance System has the potential to significantly change the way we fight COVID-19 as well as future pandemics, bacterial diseases, and viruses. But building up the robustness of a wastewater surveillance system will take financial support, and it's not clear Congress will provide it.
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Public Health Preparedness
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How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?
Anita Chandra, Linnea Warren May @LinneaKWMay, Laurie T. Martin
Aug 11, 2021
The RAND Blog
As the United States emerges from the devastation of the pandemic, it may be time to examine the choices communities made during the last year to see how these approaches shape continued COVID-19 response and recovery and help build resilience for future pandemic response.
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Public Health Preparedness
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Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic?
Edward W. Chan, Andrew M. Parker
Aug 6, 2021
The RAND Blog
COVID-19 exposed how underprepared the United States was for a pandemic and raised questions about preparedness for the next one. With political will to spend money on public health, how can America take a holistic view of all the options? And how should investments be prioritized?
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Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
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Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges
Robert J. Romanelli, Michael Whitmore, Sonja Marjanovic @SonjaCambs
Jun 14, 2021
The RAND Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that rapid innovation in the face of public health emergencies is possible. In only 15 months, 15 vaccines have been approved or authorized for use in various parts of the world. What thinking is required to support uniform rapid rollout for future public health emergencies?
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Jun 2, 2021
The National Interest
President Joe Biden has called for the U.S. intelligence community to redouble efforts to determine the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conducting this investigation, it might be useful to avoid only focusing on a binary choice. That is, either the virus escaped from the laboratory or from a spillover from an infected animal to a human.
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Educational Equity
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Pandemic Education, Working Mothers, Predicting Cyber Threats: RAND Weekly Recap
May 14, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on the urban-rural divide in pandemic education, supporting working moms, what makes a good COVID-19 reopening plan, and more.
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Public Health Preparedness
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Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 9, 2021
This weekly recap focuses declining trust in the CDC, insights from educators about teaching students with disabilities, Russian mercenaries, and more.
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Public Health Preparedness
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COVID-19 Options for 2021
Rafiq Dossani
Jan 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
The disorganized public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States helped ensure that the nation led the world in infections nearly from the beginning of the pandemic. With vaccines now becoming available, are we over the problem? Not necessarily.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Voting in a Pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service, Defunding the Police: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 28, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on Americans' views about voting in the age of COVID-19, what makes the U.S. Postal Service so essential, why some in law enforcement may be open to “defunding the police,” and more.
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Educational Institutions
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To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities
Peter S. Hussey, John J. Rydzewski
Aug 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
Safely reopening K–12 schools for in-person instruction requires complicated protocols ranging from symptom monitoring to physical distancing, as well as containment of transmission in the community. State policymakers and school leaders could begin planning now to draft, pilot, and evaluate protocols for reopening schools that incorporate rapid testing.
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Public Health Preparedness

Tunisia: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Jordan: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Qatar: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Lebanon: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Iran: Challenges and Successes in COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Helping Ukrainian Refugees, Truth Decay, Algorithmic Inequity: RAND Weekly Recap

National Wastewater Tracking Could Help Us Stay Ahead of COVID-19—but Congress Cut the Funds

How Have Communities Been Faring During COVID-19? And How Will Lessons Learned Inform Future Response and Planning?

Rebuild Public Health for the Next Pandemic?

Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges

Origin Story: How Did the Coronavirus Emerge?

Pandemic Education, Working Mothers, Predicting Cyber Threats: RAND Weekly Recap

Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

COVID-19 Options for 2021

Voting in a Pandemic, the U.S. Postal Service, Defunding the Police: RAND Weekly Recap

To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities

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