Pandemic Lessons

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

Twelve Lessons on Hospital Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus pandemic has been announced by World Health Organization Director General on March 11th, 2020.Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was one the first referral hospitalsin the capital city of Tehran, I.R.Iran that entered the crisis and started a serious battle with the disease. Thehospital had to change many routine op...

Pandemic influenza preparedness planning: lessons from Cambodia.

aCommunicable Disease Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand. bDepartment of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. cSaw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Correspondence to Anthony C Huszar (e-mail: [email protected]) Introduction Experts have estimated that a pandemi...

Some lessons learned from the AIDS pandemic.

Vaccination against pandemic influenza A H1N1 among health care workers. Lessons for the next pandemic.

T World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century in June 11, 2009.1 As a consequence of the preparedness of the international health authorities for an influenza pandemic, a safe and effective vaccine was ready for use in October 2009, while the pandemic was at an early stage in the Northern Hemisphere. As stated by WHO, health care workers (HCWs) are ...