Coronavirus and SBS

There’s Something in the Air, Part 2 – But It’s Not a Miasma
Insights
April 15, 2024

There’s Something in the Air, Part 2 – But It’s Not a Miasma

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Webinar: Research in Global Crisis
Event
September 14, 2022

Webinar: Research in Global Crisis

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Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake
News
August 25, 2022

Mercury Project Names First Cohort to Fight Health Misinformation and Increase Vaccine Uptake

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Understanding the Needs of New Hires in a Post-COVID World of the Virtual Workplace
Business and Management INK
August 11, 2022

Understanding the Needs of New Hires in a Post-COVID World of the Virtual Workplace

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Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

Pandemic Management – The Path Not Taken

New data from the WHO show that during the pandemic’s first two years, Sweden had half the excess death rate of the UK, Germany or Spain – and a quarter of the excess death rate of many countries in Eastern Europe.

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Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID

Dispatches from Social and Behavioral Scientists on COVID

Has the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted how social and behavioral scientists view and conduct research? If so, how exactly? And what are […]

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SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance

SSRC, NSF Team Up To Examine Impact of Public Health Guidance

In a new initiative with an initial $20 million budget, the U.S. National Science Foundation is partnering with the Social Science Research Council to identify and support science research into public health guidance and its impact.

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Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US

Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US

The Pew Research Center writes that “as the relationship between population density and coronavirus death rates has changed over the course of the pandemic, so too has the relationship between counties’ voting patterns and their death rates from COVID-19.”

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We Haven’t Just Suffered During COVID – We’ve Learned

We Haven’t Just Suffered During COVID – We’ve Learned

Resilience of young people, new treatment tools give Harvard psychologist Matt Nock hope amid mental health challenges posed by social media, school and campus disruptions

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Failures of Imagination: Four Experts on Science’s  COVID Response So Far

Failures of Imagination: Four Experts on Science’s COVID Response So Far

The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, four health experts look at what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on.

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WHO’s New Pandemic Advisory Body Urged to Tap Into Social And Behavioral Science

WHO’s New Pandemic Advisory Body Urged to Tap Into Social And Behavioral Science

An open letter from World Health Organization experts urges another WHO body to use use social and behavioral science “to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

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COVID Suggests that Fear Itself Not Sufficient for Health Messaging

COVID Suggests that Fear Itself Not Sufficient for Health Messaging

Research the author and colleagues conducted at Penn State shows that both the escalation and de-escalation of fear must occur for the message to be effective.

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