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Vaccines: a case history of false balance on TV

Monday, May 23, 2016 - 11:09

Until the end, it seemed it could sort out to be a happy-ending story, a demonstration of how new social networks, renown for spreading misinformation, can also correct it, when used properly. But the unfortunately predictable finale showed the opposite: counteracting false ideas about vaccines is not that easy. It will take time, a big deal of patience, communication skills and a good, coordinated strategy as well.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine safety, Social media, false balance

RRI: a different idea of responsibility

Friday, May 20, 2016 - 10:14

It is never easy to develop definitions, especially when we are talking about something that is emerging and changing as we speak. This is the case for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), an emerging process within European Framework Programs whose definition is new and evolving. However, we can certainly identify a number of key characteristics of RRI, which is an umbrella term including a wide variety of notions, coming from the academia and politics.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
research, innovation

“One Health”: vaccinate camels to protect people from MERS

May 11, 2016

Albert Osterhaus, director of the Research Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses (RIZ) in Hannover, Germany, is also a vet and a strong promoter of the One Health movement, which aims to consider animals and humans together, as possible sources and vectors of emerging diseases. In his lab MERS-Cov was discovered, which has caused thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths so far, mainly in the Middle East and in Korea. He has studied a new strategy to counteract this disease, vaccinating the dromedary camels, which are the main source of human infections.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, Vaccine, MERS

Cooperation and engagement for a polio-free world

Friday, May 6, 2016 - 11:11

“We are so close to ending the polio” and “Still 15 years to a polio-free world” are not contradictory statements. They instead describe, with different degree of optimism, the current framework and the objective to be pursued in the fight against this disease. In other words, we are closer than ever to the target of a world free of polio, but much remains to be done to carry the world across the threshold. Polio eradication is the next issue public health authorities will be committed to in midterm future.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Media, Microbiology, Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
polio, Vaccine, Vaccine safety, Surveillance, engagement, ECDC

Why still Polio

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 16:38

ECDC internal meeting
April 14 2016.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
polio, ECDC
PDF icon donato_greco_-_ecdc_april_14.pdf

Action Plan for Poliomyelitis Prevention and Control

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 16:36

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Advisory Forum
May 12-13, Stockholm

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
polio
PDF icon donato_greco_-_ecdc_may_12-13_stockholm.pdf

ASSET project a resource in case of infectious threats

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 10:16

Lessons learned for public health from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Luxembourg, 12-14 October 2015
By Eva Benelli

Target: 
Decision Makers
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
Ebola
PDF icon assetpres_def_11oct.pdf

Compulsory vaccination and rates of coverage immunisation in Europe

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 09:40

High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood are main indicators for public health. However, reaching and maintaining such a target is not always an easy task for public health institutions, and the spread of vaccine refusal and hesitancy is making this even harder. Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some countries adopted and others are considering in order to face

Target: 
Decision Makers
Topic: 
Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy
PDF icon asset_report.pdf

Zika, or the burden of uncertainty

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 09:30

Clin Ter. 2016;167(1):7-9.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
zika

Twitter, tweets and influencers

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 15:57

How many ways are there to tell a story and who will do it? In these months we tried to answer those questions by running an analysis of the most relevant tweets and accounts about some key words, chosen by the editorial board, focused on Zika virus and vaccines. We then developed an application to identify the most influential Twitter users on specific topics, according to a list of hashtag we have provided.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media, Social Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Twitter, Social media, zika, Vaccine

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