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How Has the COVID-19 Crisis Affected Mental Health and Physical Activity? Participate in the ACTIVID Project

07.07.2020

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Guillem Vich

How Has the COVID-19 Crisis Affected Mental Health and Physical Activity? Participate in the ACTIVID Project

[Authors: Guillem Vich and Mònica Ubalde, members of Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative at ISGlobal ] In response to the...

Environmental Health, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 07.07.2020

Julie Chaccour

COVID-19 and the Return to Normality: What Are the Priorities For Schools?

[This text has been written by Juliane Chaccour , immunologist and medical editor; Marta Valente , pediatrician at the Centro de...

Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 02.07.2020

Adriano Carneiro

COVID-19: Why is Brazil Emerging as the New Global Epicentre of the Pandemic?

The term necropolitics was coined by Professor Achille Mbembe of South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand. In his 2003...

Training & Education, ISGlobal Alumni, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 17.06.2020

Lola Jover

Global Health Students Tackle COVID-19 Head-On: From Classroom to First-Hand Experience in a Seroprevalence Study

COVID-19 has been a life-changing experience for students in the ISGlobal–University of Barcelona Master of Global Health and Master...

Training & Education, ISGlobal Alumni, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 16.06.2020

Clara Pons

Limitations and Strengths of the First Clinical Trial of Hydroxychloroquine to Prevent COVID-19 Disease

[Authors: Clara Pons y Elena Marbán , predoctoral researchers at ISGlobal] In recent weeks, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) ...

Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 12.06.2020

David Rojas

10 Urban Interventions to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 and Improve Public Health in the Long Term

Can cities make quick fixes to slow the spread of COVID-19? Could these changes also help to improve our overall health and well-being? Low-cost,...

Environmental Health, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 10.06.2020

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

Why Cities Need Green Space More than Ever?

[This article has been published together with Diputació de Barcelona ] As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent...

Environmental Health, Coronavirus 05.06.2020

Raül Toran

12 Very Topical Environmental Films, Documentaries and TV Series

We would like to take the opportunity of World Environment Day (5 June) to recommend a few films and television series that invite reflection on...

Communications, Environmental Health 04.06.2020

Adelaida Sarukhan

COVID-19: Three Reasons Why It Is Unlikely that We Get Vaccinated before 2021

[This text has been written by: Adelaida Sarukhan , scientific writer at ISGlobal, and Rafa Vilasanjuan , Policy and Global...

Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 04.06.2020

Alberto García-Basteiro

Without Rigor and Transparency, There Can Be no Science: about Surgisphere and its Scientific Publications in High Impact Journals

[This text has been written by: Alberto García-Basteiro , Assistant Research Professor at ISGlobal and physician at the International Health...

Emerging Viruses 03.06.2020

Cornelius Benecke

Optimism during a Pandemic – The Creative Disruption of Global Health

While mental health is a central pillar of a well-rounded approach on global health policy formulation, it appears to be something that is not...

Training & Education, ISGlobal Alumni, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 02.06.2020

Carlos Chaccour

Ivermectin and COVID-19: How a Flawed Database Shaped the Pandemic Response of Several Latin-American Countries

[Authors: Carlos Chaccour , Assistant Research Professor at ISGlobal and BOHEMIA Chief Scientific Officer; Joe...

Malaria, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 29.05.2020

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