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What does global evidence tell us about the optimal way to distribute COVID-19 vaccines?

The International Network for Government Science Advice has been monitoring different countries’ prioritisation models for the vaccine rollout – from the arts and culture sector in Serbia to indigenous populations in North America and New Zealand, and politicians in Turkey ...
Second Report on Progress - Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Second Report on Progress – Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

The second Progress Report from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response that has been appointed by the World Health Organisation to investigate the international response to COVID-19 pandemic and its origins ...
Progress report from the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Progress report from the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

The first Progress Report from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response that has been appointed by the World Health Organisation to investigate the international response to COVID-19 pandemic and its origins ...
The Pandemic Lens: Focusing across Time Scales for Local-Global Sustainability

The Pandemic Lens: Focusing across Time Scales for Local-Global Sustainability

Our common survival at local-global levels depends on being able to understand the urgencies of exponential change across these timescales. The ‘‘Pandemic Lens’’ introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic gives us perspective to operate with informed short-term to long-term decision making ...
Science advisers around the world on 2020

Science advisers around the world on 2020

Seven government researchers who helped to guide their governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic speak out ...
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WHO reform: a call for an early-warning protocol for infectious diseases

The global population deserves a better model — one that delivers information about the risk of emergent infectious diseases faster and in a way that is transparent, verifiable and non-politicised. A discussion paper ...

 

 

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COVID-19 threatens to lead to a "lost generation" of researchers

COVID-19 threatens to lead to a “lost generation” of researchers

Vaccine Diplomacy: Biden faces pressure to distribute vaccines worldwide, while Americans still need them at home

Vaccine Diplomacy: Biden faces pressure to distribute vaccines worldwide, while ...

Policy 2.0 in the Pandemic World: What Worked, What Didn’t and Why

Policy 2.0 in the Pandemic World: What Worked, What Didn’t and Why

Bhutan: The Unlikeliest Pandemic Success Story

Bhutan: The Unlikeliest Pandemic Success Story

Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic

Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic

Science Diplomacy and Its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking: Operating through Our Global Pandemic with Humanity

Science Diplomacy and Its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking: Operating through O...

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics Interim Report

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics Interim Report

Epidemic/Pandemic Response in Africa: Covid-19 in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

Epidemic/Pandemic Response in Africa: Covid-19 in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeri...

COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the SADC region: collaborative engagement on policy briefs

COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the SADC region: collaborative enga...

A new generation of climate models, COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement

A new generation of climate models, COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement

A Continent Where the Dead Are Not Counted

A Continent Where the Dead Are Not Counted

With few resources, Senegal emerges as a leader in the fight against COVID-19

With few resources, Senegal emerges as a leader in the fight against COVID-19

Trouble in the trough: how uncertainties were downplayed in the UK’s science advice on Covid-19

Trouble in the trough: how uncertainties were downplayed in the UK’s science adv...

Those who tell us what to do during the pandemic must earn our trust

Those who tell us what to do during the pandemic must earn our trust

Two New Policy Briefs: Developing and Manufacturing Vaccines in Pandemics

Two New Policy Briefs: Developing and Manufacturing Vaccines in Pandemics

Are governments following the science on covid-19?

Are governments following the science on covid-19?

The real lessons from Sweden’s approach to covid-19

The real lessons from Sweden’s approach to covid-19

Memo for President Biden: Five steps to getting more from science

Memo for President Biden: Five steps to getting more from science

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COVID: Data Science, Knowledge Flows, Global Health. 4 papers from Sabina Leonelli

COVID: Data Science, Knowledge Flows, Global Health. 4 papers from Sabina Leonel...

Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic

Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic

Science Diplomacy and Its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking: Operating through Our Global Pandemic with Humanity

Science Diplomacy and Its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking: Operating through O...

Trouble in the trough: how uncertainties were downplayed in the UK’s science advice on Covid-19

Trouble in the trough: how uncertainties were downplayed in the UK’s science adv...

Reports available from IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform

Reports available from IIASA-ISC Consultative Science Platform

Agile and Adaptive Management of COVID-19: The Case of Iran

Agile and Adaptive Management of COVID-19: The Case of Iran

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Second Report on Progress - Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Second Report on Progress – Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness an...

Progress report from the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Progress report from the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Prepare...

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics Interim Report

Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics Interim Report

Epidemic/Pandemic Response in Africa: Covid-19 in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

Epidemic/Pandemic Response in Africa: Covid-19 in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeri...

A new generation of climate models, COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement

A new generation of climate models, COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement

Two New Policy Briefs: Developing and Manufacturing Vaccines in Pandemics

Two New Policy Briefs: Developing and Manufacturing Vaccines in Pandemics

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