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Preparedness ISGlobal Pandemic Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impacts that a global health crisis can have on all aspects of our lives. This does not happen only during pandemics; other crises have had (or are having) wide impacts in our societies, such as armed conflict, terrorist attacks, nuclear or chemical accidents and climate-driven disasters. Environmental and public health crises require rapid and flexible responses, based on the best scientific and technological knowledge available.

Interview with Sara Soto and Elizabet Diago on Web Sostenible (2024).

 

To improve the effectiveness and acceptability of emergency response, we need to draw from existing experiences at the global and local levels, generate new scientific knowledge specific to diverse crises and promote and ensure access to timely and relevant evidence for public decision-making authorities.

What is PR3?

We coined the term PR3 as the concept that combines different phases of preparing for and responding to crises, i.e. Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Resilience. For more information on each phase and on the model see here.

What Do We Do?

Main Research Themes

ISGlobal aims to be a centre of reference for research and translation in PR3, specifically to improve preparedness and promote resilience to health and climate emergencies irrespective of borders, bringing together experts in Europe and other regions (including LMICs) with complementary expertise into a PR3 Centre/Network and making strategic alliances with the following goals:

This includes:

  • Develop frameworks and core protocols for surveillance/research in case of crisis that can be rapidly adapted to crisis at hand; and
  • Encourage establishment of appropriate infrastructures and a collaborative framework for near real-time data collection, sharing, analysis, alerts, investigation, and response (both at the local and global levels).

This implies:

  • Identifying and mobilizing appropriate expertise inside ISGlobal and in the network to provide knowledge and information to public health authorities and to civil society from the local (city) and regional to the national and global levels; and
  • Linking with appropriate initiatives (including the European Health Emergency Response Authority, the Iberoamerican Epidemiological Observatory, and others.

This implies carrying out research in the areas of our competence in case of a crisis, and liaising with appropriate partners and entities, including risk identification, risk assessment, risk-benefit evaluation to feed into policy decision.

Advice will be based on the best and latest evidence and access to a network of experts and professionals.

 

 

The ISGlobal PR3 Group:

  • Coordinates and facilitates collaboration, synergies, funding within and outside ISGlobal (researchers, policy & global development, innovation, communication, education);
  • Promotes a meaningful scientific agenda (See SRA);
  • Promotes translation of research results and activities to generate impact in policy and society; and
  • Provides internal and external capacity building to effectively provide strategic guidance during a response to a future health crisis.

 

Main Research Lines

Many ISGlobal researchers conduct relevant research on PR3 (for more information see here) in the following areas:

  • Pandemic and outbreak preparedness
  • Nuclear accidents
  • Climate change
  • Health impact assessment
  • Early warning systems
  • Communication and stakeholder participation

 

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Our Activities

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Publications and Multimedia related to ISGlobal

Policy Papers or Briefs

The All-Hazards Preparedness Approach: How Can We Be Better Prepared for the Next Public Health Crisis? How Can We Be Better Prepared for the Next Public Health Crisis? Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic¿Por qué es urgente alcanzar un acuerdo de pandemias? Una propuesta para la posición europea Recommendations and procedures for preparedness and health surveillance of populations affected by a radiation accident

 

Activities of the PR3 Group at ISGlobal

 

 

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Our External Activities

 

Who Are We?

A working group created in December 2020 to develop a strategic working roadmap for Preparedness and Response involving the research and global policy departments.

The PR3 team brings together researchers and policy experts from most of the Research Programmes and Education and Training; Communication; Policy and Global Development.

Our Team

Core Group