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Situation Report: Floods Devastate Northwestern Italy, Displace Thousands

June 5, 2023

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Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan and the Critical Need for Support

May 4, 2023 by Joe Nallen

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Wildfire Threat to Inpatient Health Care Facilities in California, 2022

Published in The American Journal of Public Health
March 3, 2023 by Neil Singh Bedi, Caleb Dresser, Akash Yadav, Andrew Schroeder, and Satchit Balsari

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CrisisReady Co-Directors leading research cluster at Harvard University to study climate adaptation in South Asia

February 13, 2023 by Joe Nallen

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7.8 and 7.5 Magnitude Earthquakes Strike Turkey, Cause Mass Destruction and Growing Death Toll

February 6, 2023

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Workshop: Information Analysis Tools for Humanitarian and Public Health Response

February 3, 2023 by Joe Nallen

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CrisisReady’s novel framework for transdisciplinary translation: Case-studies in wildfire and hurricane response

Published in The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 9 (2023) 100193
January 10, 2023 by Andrew Schroeder, Caleb Dresser, Akash Yadav, Jennifer Chan, Shenyue Jia, Caroline Buckee, Satchit Balsari

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Data in Crises: Preparing for Climate Migration in South Asia

• DATE:
  Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm
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Preventing the next pandemic: New tools for global surveillance  

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  Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 12:00pm — 01:00pm

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Tropical Storm Julia: Reports and Updates

October 10, 2022

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Hurricane Ian: Reports and Updates

September 28, 2022

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CrisisReady Annual Report 2022

August 5, 2022

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Data Preparedness for Disasters in Mexico: Regional Hub Workshop Review

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  Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm
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The Use of Mobility Data in Public Health Emergencies

May 26, 2022

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How User Data Gathered from Facebook Can Support Humanitarian Aid and Help Save Lives

May 3, 2022 by Joe Nallen

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Interactive Dashboard: Population Density Changes of Border Countries to Ukraine

April 6, 2022

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Low parasite connectivity among three malaria hotspots in Thailand

Published in Nature Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23348
December 2, 2021 by Hsiao-Han Chang, Meng-Chun Chang, Mathew Kiang, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Nattwut Ekapirat, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Prayuth Sudathip, Caroline O. Buckee, Richard J. Maude

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Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA

Published in The Lancet Digital Health
November 9, 2021 by Nishant Kishore, Aimee R Taylor, Pierre E Jacob, Navin Vembar, Ted Cohen, Prof Caroline O Buckee, Nicolas A Menzies

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Data in Crisis — Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in the United States

Published in New England Journal of Medicine, Medicine and Society (2021)
September 1, 2021 by Satchit Balsari, M.D., M.P.H., Mathew V. Kiang, Sc.D., and Caroline O. Buckee, D.Phil.

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Thinking clearly about social aspects of infectious disease transmission

Published in Nature, Volume 595, Pages 205–213 (2021)
July 15, 2021 by Caroline O. Buckee, Abdisalan Noor, Lisa Sattenspiel

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Network Outages and Changes in Population Density After Tropical Storm Claudette in Louisiana and Alabama

June 24, 2021 by Akash Yadav (CrisisReady)

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CrisisReady Researchers Probe Health Risks from California Wildfire Season

June 24, 2021 by Direct Relief

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Leveraging Facebook mobility data for COVID19 policy development in Wales 

June 22, 2021 by CrisisReady

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The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok

Published in Epidemics, Volume 35, 2021, 100441, ISSN 1755-4365
June 1, 2021 by Tyler S. Brown, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Mathew V. Kiang, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Richard J. Maude, Caroline O. Buckee

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