Five Policy Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ireland
Over the past year, Ireland’s National Economic and Social Council (NESC) has analysed the pandemic to extract lessons for public policy.
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Adding an intelligent data ecosystem to urban planning: a dynamic knowledge graph approach
Read moreAhead of appearing at our Urban Intelligence event on Thursday 7 July at 3 pm BST, Dr. Aurel von Richthofen and colleagues argue for data interoperability and compatibility to enable sustainable city planning. Hou Yee Quek, Franziska Sielker, Markus Kraft, Jethro Akroyd, Amit Bhave, Aurel von Richthofen, Pieter Herthogs, Claudia Yamu, Li Wan, Timea Nochta, Gemma Burgess, Mei Qi Lim, Sebastian Mosbach, VSK Murthy Balijepalli In the 21st century, the advent of faster, cheaper and smaller electronic devices available to a mass consumer base across the globe has altered the prevailing urban...
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How Science Advice was Inhibited and Facilitated in Ghana during COVID-19
Read moreGhana’s response was lauded as exemplary in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak. However the country did not develop a clearly documented strategic plan of its own.
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Can China’s zero-COVID Policy Stand Up to the Test?
Read moreVirologist Feng Gao is head of the Institute of Molecular and Medical Virology at Jinan University in southern China’s Guangzhou, and an emeritus professor at Duke University in Durham in the United States. Gao has been researching pathogens for nearly 40 years and is currently working on vaccine development for the coronavirus and HIV. Here he discusses his experiences with COVID-19 in China and the United States*. Interview by Yvaine Ye How has the outbreak of the Omicron variant affected you? I came back to China from the States in February 2022 after...