What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a
systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the …

Pandemic dynamics and health care responses are markedly different during the COVID-19
pandemic than in earlier outbreaks. Compared with established infectious disease such as …

Indigenous populations are at especially high risk from COVID-19 because of factors such
discrimination, social exclusion, land dispossession, and a high prevalence of forms of …

Indigenous communities worldwide are at higher risk of negative pandemic outcomes, and
communities Indigenous to the Arctic are disproportionately affected compared to national …

Despite common perceptions to the contrary, pandemic diseases do not affect populations
indiscriminately. In this paper, we review literature produced by demographers, historians …

1Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway,
2PandemiX Center, Roskilde University, Denmark, 3Department of Anthropology, University …

The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Arctic was dominated by the Delta wave
that primarily lasted between July and December 2021 with varied epidemiological …

Objectives This study examined how socio-demographic, climate and population health
characteristics shaped the geospatial variability in excess mortality patterns during the …

Biological anthropologists are ideally suited for the study of pandemics given their strengths
in human biology, health, culture, and behavior, yet pandemics have historically not been a …

Objectives Pandemics have profoundly impacted human societies, but until relatively
recently were a minor research focus within biological anthropology, especially within …