- A global alert system with coordinated responses can help to reduce the impact of disasters and disease outbreaks. What components should such a global alert system to combat health risks consist of?
- How can the “last mile problem” be overcome to create sustainable risk awareness? (The “last mile problem” in the health-context denotes the problem to establish the challenging link between per- sons in risk situations and relevant information, which can help to combat the risk).
- How can medical research implemented in space or in analogues be more efficiently used for healthcare on the planet? How can related technology be better utilised (spin-offs)?
- How can SGAC/students and young professionals contribute to this topic?
- How could UNISPACE+50 or SGAC/students and young professionals contribute to this topic?
- Source about the Problem Statement to introduce Key Questions (1) and (2) WHO - Environmental health in emergencies http://www.who.int/environmental_health_emergencies/en/ (Comment: Please read through the information on this page by following the links)
- Source about the Problem Statement to introduce Key Question (3) ESA - Spin-offs: when space tech falls to Earth (https://www.epo.org/news-issues/technology/space/spinoff-applications.html)
- Paper about the UN Expert Focus Group - Space & Global Health UN Commitee on the Peaceful uses of Outer Space - Thematic priority 5: Strengthened space cooperation for global health (http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/oosadoc/data/documents/2018/aac.105/aac.1051172_0.html)
- ESA - Space for Health Portal (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Preparing_for_the_Future/Space_for_Earth/Space_for_health)
- ESA - Tempus Pro vital signs monitor for telemedicine through space technology (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Highlights/Tempus_Pro)
- Health Business Applications in Cooperation with ESA (https://business.esa.int/projects/theme/health)
- HOT-OSM: Malaria Elimination Campaign - Updates (https://www.hotosm.org/projects/malaria_elimination_campaign)
- HOT-OSM: A crowd-sourced public transportation map for Managua
- (https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-01-07_a_crowd_sourced_public_transportation_map_for_managua)
- WHO-EWARS: a simple, robust system to detect disease outbreaks
- (http://www.who.int/emergencies/kits/ewars/en/); (see also: http://mathematik.uni-landau.de/EWARS/)
- Wikiversity - Risk Management (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Risk_Management)
- Homepage of the UN Expert Focus Group - Space & Global Health (http://at6fui.weebly.com/)
- WHO’s Early Warning, Alert and Response System (EWARS) http://www.who.int/emergencies/kits/ewars/en/ > Link to Key Question 1 in presentation
- O3B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks > Link to Key Question 2 in presentation
- Summary of “How Astronaut Health helps us Earthlings” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nleeEUKoEZM (first part only) > Link to Key Question 3 in presentation