Achieving Educational Continuity under COVID-19 – Early Experiences and Lessons to Share

Continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to editor

To Share or Not to Share SHARE-it: Lessons Learnt

The purpose of this position paper is to discuss the authors’ reflections on the use of Assistive Technologies to support user’s autonomy to perform the necessary Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In special, we will address the use of Agent-based robotic services.

How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of deaths and the total number of infected people) across world countries. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but it is not clear whe...

Twelve Lessons on Hospital Leadership During COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus pandemic has been announced by World Health Organization Director General on March 11th, 2020.Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was one the first referral hospitalsin the capital city of Tehran, I.R.Iran that entered the crisis and started a serious battle with the disease. Thehospital had to change many routine op...

History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you ...