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At this week’s conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe in Delft, Netherlands, Dr. Claus Rinner presented a poster titled “The Pandemic Report Cards – Context and Design Proposal for a World Atlas of COVID-19 Restrictions and Mandates”. The poster and associated two-page paper signal a starting point for the RECOVER19 grant’s…

The proposed research for the RECOVER19 project is organized primarily through a set of five “case studies”, each involving a subgroup of the research team. Case study 1 aims to create “pandemic report cards” for select countries to analyze the variations of public health and societal outcomes in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This “ground-truthing”…

International team of researchers examines the role of transparency, shared responsibility, and evidence-informed decision-making in crisis management and post-pandemic recovery The starting point for this research is the realization that we cannot recover from COVID-19 without impartially analyzing the pandemic response of the last three years. The project team plans to assess lockdowns, school closures,…

Three months after the internal funding decision, the embargo on publicizing the results of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2022 Special Call has just been lifted with a government announcement. Our project, officially titled “Transparency and shared responsibility for sustainable post-pandemic recovery and evidence-informed decision-making during future global emergencies“, is among 61 “interdisciplinary,…