Professor Tina Comes, who leads the HERoS team at TU Delft, co-authored a new open-access publication on epidemiological modelling in refugee and internally displaced people settlements.
Citation
Aylett-Bullock J, Gilman RT, Hall I, et al Epidemiological modelling in refugee and internally displaced people settlements: challenges and ways forward BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e007822.
HERoS research on the co-spread of COVID-19 online misinformation and fact checks paved the way for a new study by Open University on false claims and their corrections in the context of the war in Ukraine. A summary of preliminary findings can be found here.
A session dedicated to the HERoS project was organised during the 2021 edition of the EURO-Hope mini conference organised by the The Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Research Institute (HUMLOG).
Three presentations were delivered:
Economic Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions during COVID-19 Pandemic – Kam-Ming Wan, Hanken School of Economics
Opening up after COVID-19: lessons learned from secondary schools and nursing homes – Anne Lia Cremers,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Best governance practices in the medical supply chain – Kees Boersma, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
A new article by partner Knowledge Media Institute (Open University) published in Information Processing & Management provides an overview of our main research findings under the online misinformation area.
Highlights include:
A bidirectional weak causation between misinformation and fact-checks is observed.
Fact-checks about COVID-19 appear quickly after misinformation is circulated.
The ability of fact-checks to reduce misinformation spread is limited.
Topics like conspiracy theories and virus causes are resistant to fact-checks.
The article is freely accessible and downloadable until 31 October 2021 via this URL: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1dj~w15hYdmTIW
HERoS presented its objectives, main finding to date and current lines of research at the online Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2021 – an event co-hosted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. ‘Emergency Response in a Pandemic’ was one of the priority topics identified for this year’s edition.
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