The latest news, research, and other resources produced by members of the IIASA community who are working to provide decision-makers with the information they need to address the COVID-19 crisis.
News
19 October 2022
Why do COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist on social media?
IIASA researchers have analyzed the discussion on eight different conspiracy theories that was spread widely on Twitter during the pandemic. Their work makes it possible to not only estimate the number of conspiracy related tweets, but also to compare the theories among themselves and identify patterns in their discussion.
17 October 2022
Blessing or curse? How the pandemic and the war impact energy transitions
The Covid-19 pandemic and the return of military conflict to Europe are two of the present’s defining crises. A new IIASA-led study sheds light on their ramifications for the global energy system.
05 September 2022
Lessons learned from COVID-19 mitigation measures
Due to the uncertainty of the timing of vaccine approval at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers struggled to find the best mitigation measures. In a new study, researchers analyzed how the expectation of a vaccine influences optimal lockdown measures.
Events
Blog
25 March 2021
Enhancing science systems and bouncing forward sustainably from COVID-19
The IIASA-ISC Consultative Science platform has engaged transdisciplinary global thought leaders to produce four reports that focus on a more sustainable pathway to a post COVID-19 world. This blog post looks at the report on Strengthening Science Systems.
18 March 2021
Learning from COVID-19 and upgrading sustainable governance
The IIASA-ISC Enhancing Governance for Sustainability Report identifies the lessons learnt from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in relation to upgrading risk governance.
17 December 2020
The footprint of COVID-19 on carbon emissions and future work at IIASA
Greg Davies-Jones finds out how COVID-19 has lightened the carbon footprint of IIASA and uncovers how the institute plans to integrate climate protection and sustainability into everyday research activities.
Publications
González-Leonardo, M., Rowe, F., Potančoková, M. , & Goujon, A. (2024). Assessing the Differentiated Impacts of COVID-19 on the Immigration Flows to Europe. International Migration Review e01979183241242445. 10.1177/01979183241242445.
Klimek, P., Ledebur, K., Gyimesi, M., Ostermann, H., & Thurner, S. (2024). Forecasting the Early Impact of COVID-19 on Physician Supply in EU Countries. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 13 (1) 1-11. 10.34172/ijhpm.2024.7555.
Sokolov, A., Royzenson, G., Komendantova, N. , & Ekenberg, L. (2024). Technology for Creating Systems for Monitoring and Predictive Modeling the State of Hazardous Phenomena and Objects (on the Example of the Covid-19 Epidemic). In: 12th World Conference “Intelligent System for Industrial Automation” (WCIS-2022). Eds. Aliev, R., Yusupbekov, N., Kacprrzk, J., Pedrycz, W., Babanli, M., Sadikoglu, F., & Turabdjanov, S., pp. 202-209 Springer. 10.1007/978-3-031-51521-7_26.
González-Leonardo, M., Rowe, F., Potančoková, M. , & Goujon, A. (2024). Assessing the differentiated impacts of COVID-19 on the immigration flows to Europe. OSF preprints 10.31219/osf.io/bsezk.
González-Leonardo, M., Cabrera-Arnau, C., Neville, R., Nasuto, A., & Rowe, F. (2024). “Urban Exodus” During COVID-19in Mexico? UsingDigital Data to AnalyzeMedium-Term Pandemic Impacts on Internal Population Movements. OSF preprrints 10.31219/osf.io/e4au9. (Submitted)
Caulkins, J.P., Grass, D., Feichtinger, G., Hartl, R.F., Kort, P.M., Kuhn, M., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez-Romero, M. , Seidl, A., & Wrzaczek, S. (2023). The hammer and the jab: Are COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccinations complements or substitutes? European Journal of Operational Research 311 (1) 233-250. 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.04.033.
Sanderson, W. & Scherbov, S. (2023). The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in the USA: An application of hybrid life expectancy. Biology Methods and Protocols 8 (1) bpad025. 10.1093/biomethods/bpad025.
Rowe, F., Cabrera-Arnau, C., González-Leonardo, M., Nasuto, A., & Neville, R. (2023). Reduced mobility? Urban exodus? Medium-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal population movements in Latin American countries. arXiv (Submitted)
González-Leonardo, M., Potančoková, M. , Yildiz, D. , & Rowe, F. (2023). Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on immigration in receiving high-income countries. PLOS ONE 18 (1) e0280324. 10.1371/journal.pone.0280324.
Shayegh, S., Andreu-Perez, J., Akoth, C., Bosch-Capblanch, X., Dasgupta, S., Falchetta, G. , Gregson, S., Hammad, A., Herringer, M., Kapkea, F., Labella, A., Lisciotto, L., Martínez, L., Macharia, P.M., Morales-Ruiz, P., Murage, N., Offeddu, V., South, A., Torbica, A., Trentini, F., & Melegaro, A. (2023). Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine allocation in resource poor settings: Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled and Geospatial-assisted decision support framework. PLoS ONE 18 (8) e0275037. 10.1371/journal.pone.0275037.