Ending Pandemics
Ignorance and indifference are the only enemies.
These are resources to understand and actions we can take to end pandemics.
Building on Larry Brilliant's key phrase, "early detection and rapid response", ending pandemics is not only possible, but also reasonable and attainable with existing technology.
Pursuing this noble goal will also help us build worldwide awareness and community, improve healthcare infrastructure for the world's most vulnerable populations, advance the frontier of science in ecology, biology, genetics, and disease treatment, and transform our understanding of human organizations.
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Resources
Pandemics are complex social phenomena. The following resources cover many different topics that can contribute to our understanding of the many interacting factors that contribute to pandemics and how we can affect them.
Introductory Videos
- My wish: Help me stop pandemics | Larry Brilliant | TED2006
- Complexity, citizen engagement in a Post-Social Media time | David Snowden | TEDxUniversityofNicosia
- Coronavirus Is Our Future | Alanna Shaikh | TEDxSMU
- Every new pandemic starts as a mystery | David Quammen | TEDxBozeman
- Epidemics and the end of humankind | Rosalind Eggo | TEDxThessaloniki
Pandemics
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- What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Explanations
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference
- Probability Theory
Viruses
Order and Complexity
- A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone
- The Cynefin Center at Bangor University
- Cognitive Edge
- SenseMaker®
- Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
Brains, Minds, Emotions, and Thinking
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
- The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See
Society
- Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
- The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
- How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions
- Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Uncertainty and Risk
- The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
- How To Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
- The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It
- Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities
Ecology
Data Science
- The Julia Programming Language
- Julia Academy online learning.
- Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
- Julia for Data Science
- Statistics with Julia: Fundamentals for Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence DRAFT Preprint
Actions
There are small, simple, local, and effective things that we as ordinary citizens can all contribute to doing to end pandemics.
Let's collect them, socialize them, and do them.
_Note: There are many things that can improve health and well-being across the globe in times of crisis.
Consider personal health to the extent possible, like stopping smoking, healthy exercise and nutrition, and maintaining community bonds. Consider donating blood, contributing to or volunteering at food donation centers, volunteering to assist those with mobility restrictions, and other activities. There are often local resources to connect you to these efforts.
The focus here is durable, systemic changes to end pandemics beyond the critical actions to respond to a specific pandemic crisis._
Health Systems and Global Healthcare
Early Detection
Rapid Response
Basic Science
Data Science
Ecology
Climate Change
Government and Society
Equity
Business
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