Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen Building Resilience to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, with no end in sight. Prevention measures like hand washing, social distancing and wearing masks... Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 05.08.2020
Joan Tallada Changing Behaviour to Prevent COVID-19: Let’s Try Something Different On any given summer evening, it is not unusual to find 500 people milling about in Plaça Espanyola , the nerve centre of the La Torrassa... Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 29.07.2020
Joan Tallada Armchair Epidemiologists As Steven Johnson explains in The Ghost Map , one of the key factors that enabled John Snow to discover the true cause of the devastating... Epidemiology, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 23.07.2020
Lola Jover How COVID-19 has Changed the Way We Teach and Learn in our Master’s Programmes The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way we approach the teaching and learning experience in our master’s programmes at an... Training & Education, ISGlobal Alumni, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 15.07.2020
Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen Why a Law on Wearing Facemasks Outdoors May Be Counterproductive We are living a health crisis with enormous consequences. Reducing the transmission (risk) of COVID19 is extremely important. Prevention measures... Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 13.07.2020
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
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
Jordi Sunyer COVID-19: How Can We Reopen Schools? Before you start reading this post, I would like to emphasise that it reflects the opinion of an epidemiologist —someone who is not... Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 19.05.2020
Elena Marbán Gender Inequality in Response to the New Coronavirus Disease outbreaks affect men and women differently. Early studies suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be killing more men than women.... Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health, Health Equity, Coronavirus, Emerging Viruses 27.04.2020
