05/29/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Published: 5/29/2019. This 80-page report provides an account of the discussions that took place during a meeting of experts in November 2018 on the potential human cost of cyber operations. Session 2 discussed cyber attacks that could affect the delivery of health care, including hospitals, other medical facilities, and medical and biomedical devices. The report also details the challenge of fixing vulnerabilities in medical devices, and resilience of the health care sector to cyber attacks. (PDF)
05/29/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 5/29/2019. This one-hour, four-minute National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center Grand Rounds presentation summarizes clinical and MRI findings in an NIH patient with Ebola virus disease. It reviews ecological factors contributing to Ebola virus epidemics, and highlights molecular and immunologic correlates of viral-host interaction in the NIH patient. The patient arrived at NIH in March 2015. (Video or Multimedia)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Healthcare Ready. Published: 5/2019. The 2019 National Preparedness Poll survey results show that, once again, natural disasters are by far the threat of greatest concern to Americans. Results described in this 25-page report also indicate that while there is concern about disasters and disease outbreaks, most are not taking actions on an individual or household level to prepare. Despite 54 percent of Americans believing that a major disaster is likely to impact them in the next five years, over half of Americans (51 percent) do not have any emergency preparation plans in place. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 5/2019. This 52-page report highlights the need for a move away from single-hazard risk analysis to an explicit acknowledgement of the interactions between multiple threats, including economic and financial instability, geopolitical volatility, natural hazards, and climate change. It recommends systematic assessments of complex threats and risks, opportunities, uncertainties, risk tolerances, perceptions, and options to ensure that development is sustainable and resilient. Section 3.6 discusses global health: antibiotic resistance and pandemics. (PDF)
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