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Newsletter No. 3

April 2022
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003606.

NEW PUBLICATION


This deliverable estimates the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates how the COVID-19 shock is propagated through a network of global supplier-customer relationships, capturing interdependencies between suppliers and customers along the supply chain, allowing us to estimate cascading effects.  
Read the report >>> 
The report Crisis governance lessons learned and best practices will be published end of May. It will provide a framework based on validated principles and best practices for the building blocks of a multi-layered, networked governance approach. The document will be shared via the project website and social media channels. 

DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

HERoS organises a hybrid briefing session at the upcoming edition of Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks - an event organised by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - to present research findings of the past year. The detailed programme of the session will be available shortly. Register for the session >>>

 

Professor Tina Comes, who leads HERoS epidemiological modelling research at Technische Universiteit Delf, will be one of the speakers at the 'Science advice in time of crisis: the case of Covid' session of the Science Advice Under Pressure Conference hosted by the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism.  About the conference >>>

ONGOING RESEARCH

Improving COVID-19 crisis response through participatory action research

Researchers at partner organisation Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are studying the way COVID-19 measures are created, implemented, and experienced in secondary schools. By using participatory action research, respondents are given a role as co-researcher, in which they actively contribute to the research focus, data collection, and presentation of results.

Creative methods are used, such as film, photography and art, to jointly collect data in an in-depth way and to enable the sharing of the research findings in an inspiring and again collaborative way. In total, 20 students of two Dutch secondary schools were asked to capture their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic in a self-portrait. During one month, the students participated in art workshops and created an impressive collection of artworks, each with a unique story.

The research focuses not only on best practices and lessons learned - it additionally aims to jointly formulate concrete actions to optimise COVID-19 crisis response. This summer, the portraits of the students will be displayed in an art exhibition to start a discussion with all stakeholders involved about the way forward in secondary schools.
Drone delivery of medical supplies
As part of our research on medical supply chains, SQUADRON is developing a concept for a high-payload, long-range unmanned aerial vehicle for the delivery of medical supplies to remote or quarantined zones. Demonstration on a simulator will be carried out later this year.
Agent-based models to support public decision making 

As part of our work on modelling pandemics, we built a full-scale agent-based model of The Hague with more than 500 000 agents living, working, and visiting some 250 000 locations. With this model, we study a wide range of scenarios to estimate potential impact of government policies.

The team at Technische Universiteit Delft is currently scaling up the model to the Haaglanden region and adding international mobility to it. Researchers aim to investigate the spread of new virus variants, given that the number of vaccinated people largely differs by neighbourhood.
HERoS misinformation research informs study on disinformation in the context of the war in Ukraine

Preliminary findings of the study, conducted at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, are summarised in this article.

SISTER PROJECT NEWS

COVINFORM draws upon intersectionality theory and complex systems analysis in an interdisciplinary critique of COVID-19 responses on the levels of government, public health, community, and information and communications.

Podcast series 
COVINFORM has launched its podcast “Beyond Numbers: COVID-19 and society”. The first three episodes are available online.

Intersectionality explainer video
The COVINFORM  project follows an intersectional approach. Why this is relevant is explained in this video.

Bi-monthly report 
The project has released its latest bimonthly report, Viruses of the mind. Coping and joking about COVID-19.

www.covinform.eu
RESISTIRÉ is gathering ten European partners and a wider network of researchers to analyse the impact of COVID-19 policies on gendered inequalities.

Factsheets
Concluding its first research cycle, the RESISTIRÉ project delivered a set of 8 factsheets to suggest practical recommendations to mitigate the social, economic, political, and environmental effects of Covid-19 policy responses on gender equality. These recommendations can also serve to safeguard against the societal impacts of future crises.

Webinar series 
RESISTIRÉ organises a series of webinars to introduce the factsheets and give civil society organisations and other stakehoders the opportunity to share their experiences. Registrations are open for the webinar titled Care and Crisis: Fostering a Paradigm Shift, on 28 April 2022.

www.resistire-project.eu
EpiPose aims to provide urgently needed answers about the epidemiological characteristics of 2019-nCoV, the social dynamics of the outbreak, and the related public health preparedness and response to the ongoing pandemic, also assessing the economic impact of the pandemic. 

CoMix UK comes to a close
March 2022 saw an end to data collection on the CoMix social contact survey in the UK. The UK arm of CoMix has been running throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and has provided valuable insights to policymakers working to manage the epidemic response. Reports have been released at frequent intervals and are all publicly available online. The CoMix survey continues to run in countries across Europe. For more information about the study, visit our website.
 
Collegium generale lecture at the University of Bern
On 23rd February 2022, EpiPose consortium member Dr Christian Althaus delivered the first lecture in the Collegium generale series at the University of Bern. His talk addressed the question of when the COVID-19 pandemic would come to an end. It is available to watch online here.
 
A snapshot of some recent scientific outputs
A newly released paper from team members at UHasselt, UAntwerp and LSHTM investigated the influence of risk perceptions on close contact frequency during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic using CoMix social contact survey data from Belgium and is available to read here.
 
Another recent output published in the Lancet Regional Health - Europe evaluated the health and economic impact of different age-based vaccine prioritization strategies across the WHO European region. The paper is available to read here.
 
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