ODI: Lessons learned? Responding to Ebola in the DRC
Chair
Wendy Fenton @WendyFenton1 – Coordinator of the Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI
Speakers
Linda Mobula @LindaMobula – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins and Research Associate, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Theresa Jones @Theresa_E_Jones – Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Associate, Anthrologicacov
Bernard Balibuna – Country Representative, CAFOD, DRC
Natalie Roberts @docnat – Director of Studies, MSF-CRASH (Médecins Sans Frontières, Centre de réflexion sur l’action et les savoirs humanitaires)
The world’s second largest outbreak of Ebola was declared on 1 August 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 2,200 people have died and over 3,300 have been infected. The response to Ebola has been complicated by conflict between central government, local political actors and armed groups in the affected areas. Rumours about the virus and the response have also been spread and shaped by that conflict.
Attempts have been made to apply key lessons from the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, such as the need for strong surveillance and outbreak control strategies and the importance of understanding the behaviours, practices and perceptions of communities and of engaging them actively in the response. The identification and trial use of effective vaccines during the outbreak has been an important and promising development. Yet, despite these efforts, cases of Ebola continue to be reported.
Drawing on articles from the Humanitarian Exchange, this webinar will discuss to what degree the lessons learned from the West Africa Ebola outbreak have been taken into account in the DRC response and how barriers to containment of the disease could be better addressed.
https://www.odi.org/events/16704-responding-ebola-drc
ODI: The Digital Safety Net: Citizens and Technology in the Age of COVID-19
This event contributes to further thinking about the role of digital technology in providing a safety net in times of crisis, the essential components of the safety net and newly designed technology being used to respond to the Covid-19 crisis.
We explore perspectives from different geographies and address critical lessons covering three aspects of the crisis response: tackling the virus, social protection and public information.”
Chair
Jonathan Tanner@Tannerjc – Research Associate, Digital Societies, ODI
Speakers
Oscar Tapp Scotting @DCMS – Deputy Director, Security & Online Harms, UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Maureen Stickel – Associate Director and Head of Zambia, IDinsight
Calvin Chong – Director of International Affairs, Ministry of Communications and Information of the Republic of Singapore, @SingaporeMCI
Watch the Webinar here:
https://www.odi.org/events/16808-digital-safety-net-citizens-technology-in-age-of-covid-19
Painel De Monitoramento COVID-19 Cliníca Da Família Zilda Arns
The Zilda Arns Family Clinic, in the Complexo do Alemão favela has created a daily updated publicly available dashboard,to monitor not only confirmed cases and deaths, but also suspected cases with flu-like symptoms.Two other communities have followed suit; Rocinha´s dashboard also provides data on the number of tests awaiting results and number of negative test results available at: Covid-19 Rocinha monitoring dashboard; and Manguinhos has a map identifying the origins of confirmed cases and deaths within the neighborhood Manguinhos—Covid-19 situation dashboard.More information on these dashboards can be found in this article: https://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=59543A Clínica da Família Zilda Arns, na favela do Complexo do Alemão, criou um painel diariamente disponível ao público, atualizado, para monitorar não apenas casos e mortes confirmados, mas também casos suspeitos com sintomas de gripe. Duas outras comunidades seguiram o exemplo; O painel da Rocinha também fornece dados sobre o número de testes aguardando resultados e o número de resultados negativos disponíveis em: painel de monitoramento Covid-19 Rocinha; e Manguinhos tem um mapa que identifica as origens de casos confirmados e mortes no painel de situação do bairro Manguinhos – Covid-19. Mais informações sobre esses painéis podem ser encontradas neste artigo: https://www.rioonwatch.org/?p=59543