At the start of this global pandemic, the COVID-19 outbreak (also known as Coronavirus) was slow to pick up significant coverage in international media. In hindsight, a pivotal moment was missed to prepare and aggressively disseminate key messaging for international bodies to lead a cohesive, coordinated response. We now know the lethality rate of infected patients for COVID-19 is minimal compared to high-risk diseases such as Ebola. However, the global reach of COVID-19, due in part to the lack of attention and informative messaging, has made this outbreak more deadly than the most recent Ebola outbreak. In the initial alarm…
Media, Data, and Outbreaks: The UN’s Global Health Crises Task Force
The challenges that epidemics and other global health crises present to the international community are ever changing in each new environment that develops potential risk to the adequate containment and eradication of disease outbreaks. In an effort to find new procedures and practices to limit these risks in 2017 the UN Secretary General’s Global Health Crises Task Force created an independent monitoring and accountability body called the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB). In its most recent report produced by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in collaboration with Anthrologica, the GPMB focused on the need…
Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Novetta Mission Analytics
How data analysis is helping mitigate the second largest outbreak in history.
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC has caused 1,522 deaths, making it the second largest in history. Understanding the causes and expressions of deep-seated local resistance to international response efforts is essential to shortening the outbreak and saving lives. Novetta is providing hands-on analysis via subject matter experts to our partners in the Ebola response community through the classification and analysis of sentiment and voice share in hyper-local and regional media content originating in the North Kivu Ebola hotspot. Novetta’s analysts identify distinct narratives and vectors of propagation from the voices of citizens, civil society stakeholders, Ebola response leadership,…
Novetta Mission Analytics Ebola Case Study
A story of how Novetta Mission Analytics increased the velocity and completion rate of clinical studies in West Africa using data, strategic communications, and monitoring and evaluation. Click image to download.
