Health & health facilities

Capacity of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural and man-made hazards, including biological hazards.

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This research provides a comprehensive assessment of the health department’s capabilities in crisis emergency risk communication and infodemic management, identifying key best practices, challenges and bottlenecks.

China CDC Weekly
Bat eating fruits
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A new study explains why and how the bats' non-native diets increased viral shedding.

Cornell University
A sunrise casts its light over the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of West Los Angeles, in the aftermath of the 2025 wildfires.
Research briefs

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds.

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR)
New York - wildfire smoke, June 2023
Research briefs

A new study found that patients recovering from lung cancer surgery in a facility near an active wildfire stayed in the hospital longer than similar patients in the same facility when there were no wildfires.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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This study seeks to analyse the intermediary functions of perceived social support (PSS) and resilience within the correlations linking earthquake-induced anxiety and the occurrence of traumatic experiences after the seismic event in Turkey.

Acta Psychologica (Elsevier)
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This report shows YFCA's climate-resilient interventions in various sectors as its effort towards building community resilience and sustaining its intervention under increased climate threats.

Yemen Family Care Association
COVID-19 Emergency response food distribution in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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The world remains unprepared for the next pandemic to come. Public health responses are often slow and politicized. Stronger leadership, funding, and innovation in vaccines and outbreak control are crucial.

Conversation Media Group, the
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ENSO alters weather and may influence infectious disease spread. Disease immunity lags ENSO events, with consecutive events prolonging effects. Understanding climate-disease links could aid early interventions and improve health outcomes.

Eos - AGU
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