The Covid-19 pandemic thrust mathematical modelling into the spotlight like never before. As governments around the world scrambled to respond to the crisis, infectious disease models became a crucial strand of evidence, allowing us to measure transmission and evaluate the likely outcome of alternative response options.…
One of the few welcome developments associated with COVID-19 was a renewed interest in the mental health of healthcare workers.
Central aspects of governmental decision-making are veiled in secrecy. This explains why behavioral public administration has had so little to say about the behavior and decisions of top civil servants and political executives.…
The main goal of the paper is to explain the emergence and the expansion of public primary education systems.
One thing this paper addresses is that there is work on contemporary and long-term effects of boundaries, focused on how individual behavior is shaped by boundaries. What’s missing from this growing literature is much evidence of how this actually works.
There is widely agreed to be a brain health crisis. This crisis affects everyone, either directly or indirectly. Around 23% of people infected with COVID will become “long haulers”, where neurological manifestations are common.…
In the Paris agreement, countries have committed themselves to decrease their carbon emissions drastically. Against this background, aviation has become an emblematic bone of contention since it is proven to be the most polluting mode of transport.…
When The Global Pandemic started two years ago, Cambridge University Press was quick to react with a number of extraordinary initiatives that supported not only the goal to work towards eradicating the virus, but also our mission to advance learning, research and knowledge worldwide. …
In April 2021, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis hosted a symposium for finance research related to the Covid-19 Pandemic.…
As I sit down to write a blog post covering my article in the European Journal of International Security, The Swedish Covid-19 strategy and voluntary compliance: Failed securitisation or constitutional security management?,…
The awareness that our lives can be abruptly shortened or seriously disrupted by unforeseen circumstances is a wake-up call that requires each of us to reflect on how we spend our time. …
We asked the Editors of five Cambridge Management journals to select recently published articles covering topics they felt will be hotly debated, discussed and researched in 2021.Settle…
The Management and Organization Review (MOR) Resilience Forum The Covid pandemic had almost instantaneously attracted attention to national, institutional, organizations and individual capabilities of resilience.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm. At the time of writing this blog post, COVID-19 has brought a current death toll of almost 2.6 million people, and the number of infected surpassing 117 million people.…
In a recent article in the APSR, Katerina Linos, Laura Jákli, and Melissa Carlson partnered with a Greek NGO to conduct a cutting edge text message donation experiment.…
Launching the National Institute Economic Review at 62 years old! We are, of course, still living in the grip of a Covid pandemic that is neither well understood nor under control.…
The shift to home-working for those in developing countries without access to low-cost and widely embedded domestic broadband networks, was potentially catastrophic.
There has long been concern about the effect of social isolation and loneliness on mental health. These fears have intensified as we approach a full year of COVID-19 related social distancing regulations which have fundamentally changed the social lives of many people globally.…
No one will forget last year, the “Covid year”. Most people worked – are in fact still working – from home, and many have found ingenious workarounds to enable them to carry on almost as normal.…
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. Around this time, many states and local governments in the United States declared states of emergencies and adopted policies aimed at reducing the frequency of physical contacts between people—social or physical distancing measures—in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.…
Experiments visualising the airflow when breathing, speaking and laughing, show that wearing a mask indoors can drastically reduce the risk of transmission of airborne particles.…
The October 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Remote delivery of CBT training, clinical supervision and services: in times of crisis or business as usual” by Paul Cromarty, Dominic Gallagher and Julianne Watson.…
The biggest lesson we can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic is that we need to avoid the polarized extremes of either tight coupling or full de-coupling in favor of loose coupling as a new form of globalization with a proper balance between localization and globalization to manage the paradox of global interdependence.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is from BJPsych Open and is entitled ‘A psychiatrist's perspective from a COVID-19 epicentre: a personal account’ Isabella Pacchiarotti, Gerard Anmella, Giovanna Fico, Norma Verdolini and Eduard Vieta
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
The September 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled ‘Practitioner Review: Health Anxiety in Children and Young People in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ by Andy Haig-Ferguson, Kate Cooper, Emma Cartwright, Maria Loades and Jo Daniels.…
As the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent success in containing it, China’s response to the pandemic has drawn worldwide attention.…
For most UK children it has been over 5 months since they were last in school. For the vast majority of children and families, returning to school over the next week or two is likely to be a positive experience; an opportunity to reconnect with their peers and feel a sense of routine and normality after what has been a turbulent few months.…
‘Generative resilience’ distinctively involves the imagination of the new in response to the unimagined – indeed a difficult operation, calling for particular forms of thinking, not only for particular structures.…
We think this roundtable is a great place to start thinking about the many approaches to teaching about the Spanish Flu pandemic in the midst of our own.
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
A new article looks at the critical supply issues due to COVI-19 and how materials science has provided a viable alternative for rapid production and distribution of PPEs and medical devices.
The July British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “OCD and COVID-19: a new frontier” by Amita Jassi, Khodayar Shahriyarmolki, Tracey Taylor, Lauren Peile, Fiona Challacombe, Bruce Clark and David Veale This article came to life on the back of discussions within the National Highly Specialised Services for severe OCD/BDD teams at the start of the pandemic.…
How do societies and organizations manifest resilience in a crisis, and why are some more resilient than others? This question animates the Management and Organization Review’s Resilience Forum.…
In this post, John J. Heslen expands on his article in a recent issue of Politics and the Life Sciences.…
In a recent opinion piece on Bloomberg.com, Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama Administration, suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic would be an unprecedented Political Science experiment that would test whether the threat of the virus could overcome the polarisation of American political parties.…
Introduction Many state governments of India have amended their labour laws in the wake of the economic crisis posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
This post was originally published on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s website and can be accessed here. The devastating human rights implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic have been thoroughly documented: Civil society has exposed the failure of many governments to protect their citizens and of many businesses to respect human rights in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights.…
The overexploitation and pollution of natural resources and accelerating climate change are among the greatest challenges of the present. Against this backdrop, industries are more and more prone to taking sustainability aspects into account.…
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented one in terms of its reach and pervasiveness, and it exposed the vulnerabilities of the global social, political, and economic system. That said, its impact on countries has been uneven and this unevenness depended heavily on the position countries were in immediately prior to the crisis. In Turkey, the key issue of youth un/employment emerged as one of the long-lasting ones since it was a major challenge before the crisis. Policy-making emerged as another key issue as the ability to generate long-term planning escaped Turkey and countries alike for a while. Regardless of when we will get past the pandemic, the post-COVID-19 world will be an extremely difficult one.
Whistleblowers have become essential watchdogs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In my recent article in the European Journal of Risk Regulation I discuss the main whistleblowing cases in China, the USA and Europe showing how workers, especially medical workers, are not only on the front line of dealing with this global crisis, but also confronting censorship of information by governments and authorities.…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
The world is currently facing the most serious health crisis in more than a century. While virtually all countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some variation in the spread of the virus and the extent to which it has disrupted societies and economies.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Quebec’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Greg Marchildon [1] [2] Amélie Quesnel-Vallée [2] [3] Madeline King [2] Antonina Maltsev [2] [1] Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto [2] North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies [3] McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms, Department of Sociology and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Background and Scope Quebec has been the hardest hit jurisdiction in Canada yet among the first provinces to begin reopening.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Albania’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Andi Hoxhaj, University of Warwick The coronavirus pandemic officially started in Albania on 8th of March when the Ministry of Health announced the country’s first cases – a father and son who had travelled from Italy to Albania.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Poland’s response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko As of 8th May Poland has reported a total of 15,200 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 5,184 recoveries; 9,260 active cases (2% being serious or critical) and 756 deaths associated with the disease (20 deaths per 1 million inhabitants).…
In the past few months Universities around the world have had to adapt considerably. With home working becoming the norm teaching and learning has shifted to Zoom, Google Hangouts and other online video conferencing software.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Ontario’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Greg Marchildon[1][2] Sara Allin[1][2] Karen Born[1] [1] Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto [2] North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Background and Scope With 39% of Canada’s population (14.7 million residents), Ontario is home to the country’s largest city, Toronto, and its national capital of Ottawa.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Malaysia’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic YingYing Yew University of Oviedo, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Unit for Research in Emergency & Disaster, Campus del Cristo, E-33006, Oviedo, Spain On the 23rd January 2020, the Singapore Immigration Checkpoints Authority alerted its counterpart neighbour regarding foreign visitors that tested positive for COVID-19 and managed to get across to the Malaysian border.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Jordan’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Elise Tancoigne University of Geneva Jordan reported 453 cases and 8 deaths from COVID-19 as of April 30, among the lowest number in the world.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
Late last month, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) revoked its ban on imports from a Malaysian rubber gloves manufacturer accused of engaging in forced labour.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Brazil’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Elize Massard da Fonseca, São Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Francisco Inácio Bastos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) Brazil is known for its successful control of communicable infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis (Barreto et al.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Mexico’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Gabriel Moreno-Esparza Northumbria University Mexico was the epicentre of the A/H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic of 2009.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Kerala’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Hafiz Shahul Kerala’s model of healthcare is well known globally for producing good health at low cost.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The global pandemic Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. Although it is not nearly over, it has already taught all of us: businesses, States and civil society, lessons beyond the outbreak to correct market failures and reshape the global economy to be more inclusive and less of a pollutant.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Norway’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Terje P. Hagen and Bjørn Hofmann The first COVID-19 infected patient was identified on February 26 and was a female returning from China.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic Xiaolin Wei Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic Greece’s response to the coronavirus pandemic Aris Angelis1, Ilias Kyriopoulos1, Irene Papanicolas1,2, Sotiris Vandoros2,3 1 Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK 2 Harvard T.H.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has appealed for human rights to be front and centre of the coordinated international response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses.…
The first United States (US) human trials of a coronavirus vaccine began in March. These trials are being conducted by a research organisation in Seattle. …
A wild animal displaced from its natural environment enters into contact with other animals in a crowded market. It becomes the vector of a virus, previously unknown to the human body, which is later passed on to humans and starts spreading from person to person.…
The global pandemic has shaken up our societies and global economy. It will run deep in every society worldwide for months and years to come.…
Experience in several states across Europe shows that the individual sense of whether COVID-19 represents an emergency situation that requires drastic, temporary, behavioral changes and social distancing (#stayathome) appears to differ starkly and, to a certain extent, is dependent on cultural patterns of socializing.…
As the world rushes to counter the continued spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), inevitably human rights will be put at odds with the protection of public health.…
As COVID-19 sweeps around the world, even initially recalcitrant governments are taking drastic action. This consists, in part, of protection for businesses, workers, homeowners and renters who may unable to meet their financial commitments and/or basic needs.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Inspired by the DSA conference call for papers “Cartographies of Movement,” this digital collection showcases Dance Research Journal articles that engage with kinesthetic and epistemological sites of indigeneity. The three subdivisions narrate the general movement of peoples and ideas at sites of origin, across countries, and beyond geographic or imagined borders. Each article in the “Rooted in Indigeneity'' section addresses performance as a means of grounding specific Indigenous cultural beliefs.
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
Global sea surface temperatures are rising and have hit record high values in recent months. This potentially threatens seabirds, their prey and their habitats, both on land and at sea.
Writing was refreshing to me because I was communicating again. However, I didn’t fully understand the extent until I watched Dead Poets Society, where the late Robin Williams delivered this moving monologue. He said, “We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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