Search for tag: "pandemic"

COVID-19 and Humanitarian Relief, Social Protection & Vulnerable Groups

On November 15, 2022, the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and SDSN hosted a webinar with members of the Humanitarian Relief, Social Protection & Vulnerable Groups Task…

From  SDG Academy 10 plays

Global Health Finance and Governance

On November 21, 2022, SDSN and CSD hosted a webinar to foster discussion and practical follow-up to the recommendations of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission final report, The The Lancet Commission…

From  SDG Academy 7 plays

Task Force on Mental Health

This webinar, hosted by SDSN and the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, explored the work of the Task Force on Mental Health and how policies to reduce the spread of COVID-19…

From  SDG Academy 12 plays

Health System Strengthening

This webinar, organized by SDSN and CSD, aims to foster discussion and practical follow-up to the recommendations of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission final report, The Lancet Commission on lessons for…

From  SDG Academy 7 plays

Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic

SDSN and CSD hosted a series of three webinars in November and December 2022 to foster discussion and practical follow-up to the recommendations of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission final report, The…

From  SDG Academy 10 plays

The Lancet COVID-19 Commission Report Launch

The Lancet Commission: Report on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic 11:00 - 11:05am | WelcomeDr. Jessamy Bagenal, Executive Editor, The Lancet 11:05 - 11:20am | Presentation of Key…

From  SDG Academy 31 plays

Social protection across countries

Despite the unprecedented worldwide expansion of social protection during the COVID-19 crisis, more than 4 billion people around the world remain entirely unprotected. This is a pivotal moment to…

From  SDG Academy 1 plays

The IsDB Green Sukuk

IsDB issued its debut green Sukuk in 2019 raising €1 billion which is committed to projects in renewable energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency, pollution prevention and control,…

From  SDG Academy 0 plays

Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

In this video, Mahmoud Mohieldin talks about how the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has been promising yet uneven across countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic…

From  SDG Academy 2 plays

Interview with Koen Doens, Director General DG-INTPA, European Commission

This video is the sixth video of unit 5.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…

From  SDG Academy 42 plays

Nature’s solutions to landslides

This video is the first video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and Xinyue Gu. What are…

From  SDG Academy 10 plays

NPI strategies of epidemic control: quarantine, testing, lockdowns, physical distancing, etc.

This is the fifth lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. The course offers a…

From  SDG Academy 58 plays

The epidemiology of Covid-19: basic reproduction number, incubation period, infection fatality rate, etc

This is the fourth lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. The course offers a…

From  SDG Academy 55 plays

Modelling epidemics, the S-E-I-R model, epidemic dynamics, etc.

This is the second lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. The course offers a…

From  SDG Academy 135 plays

Zoonotics

This video addresses zoonoses, the natural spread of infections from animals to humans, looking at how these infectious diseases are spread. Specific examples discussed are coronavirus and nipah…

From  SDG Academy 43 plays