The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed faults in the way we assess preparedness and
response capacities for public health emergencies. Existing frameworks are limited in scope …

Progress in combatting zoonoses that emerge from wildlife is often constrained by limited
knowledge of the biology of pathogens within reservoir hosts. We focus on the host …

In The Lancet, Nirmal Kandel and colleagues1 report their analysis using an operational
readiness index to summarise countries' national performance across 18 indicators of …

Methods: A case-control design was adopted and participants were randomly drawn from
the countrywide COVID-19 testing data portal maintained by the ICMR. The test results and …

Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are known to spearhead the fight against the
COVID-19 pandemic. As such, their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward …

Introduction In order to tackle the pandemic, governments have established various types of
advisory boards to provide evidence and recommendations to policy makers. Scientists …

Existing compartmental models in epidemiology are limited in terms of optimizing the
resource allocation to control an epidemic outbreak under disease growth uncertainty. In this …

The exponential accumulation, processing and accrual of big data in healthcare are only
possible through an equally rapidly evolving field of big data analytics. The latter offers the …

This review reflects on what the literature to date has taught us about how health systems of
low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) respond to emerging infectious disease (EID) …

The appearance of novel pathogens of humans with epidemic potential and high mortality
rates have threatened global health security for centuries. Over the past few decades new …