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
06 October 2021
Where we went wrong in tracking COVID-19 and how to fix it
The COVID-19 pandemic has made painfully clear that our global infectious disease monitoring system is not up to the task. Report after report points to missed opportunities for detecting and acting on the outbreak’s early signs and the devastating resulting loss of life.
15 July 2021
Tracking COVID-19 across Europe
According to the World Health Organization, a third wave of COVID infections is now all but inevitable in Europe. A COVID tracker developed by IIASA researcher Asjad Naqvi, aims to identify, collect, and collate various official regional datasets for European countries, while also combining and homogenizing the data to help researchers and policymakers explore how the virus spreads.
06 November 2020
Carbon pricing could prompt greener, smarter post-COVID recovery
Countries across the globe have been struggling to deal with the impact of COVID-19 and the accompanying economic slowdown. As economies “build back better”, it may be an opportune time to introduce carbon pricing to tackle climate change while generating socioeconomic benefits, according to new interdisciplinary policy research by philosophers and economists.
Events
IIASA at the International Conference “Risk Management in the Energy Sector 2021"
Risk Management in Energy Post-COVID-19
Virtual Meeting, 13:00 to 15:00 (CEST)
IIASA on Transboundary Climate Risk at Adaptation Futures
Virtual event
First Nobel Prize Summit
Blog
11 August 2020
What did we learn from COVID-19 models?
IIASA researcher Sibel Eker explores the usefulness and reliability of COVID-19 models for informing decision making about the extent of the epidemic and the healthcare problem.
15 June 2020
The IIASA COVID-19 dashboard
Tadeusz Bara-Slupski discusses the Artificial Intelligence for Good initiative’s recent collaboration with IIASA to develop an interactive COVID-19 data visualization tool.
05 June 2020
The female face of COVID-19 infections in Europe
Does COVID-19 affect men and women differently? Tomas Sobotka sheds light on the demographics of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
Publications
Strelkovskii, N. , Rovenskaya, E. , Ilmola-Sheppard, L., Bartmann, R., & Feitelson, E. (2022). A systems view on national well-being and implications of COVID-19 on it. In: WELL-BEING 2022 conference: Knowledge for Informed Decisions, 1-4 June, 2022, Luxembourg.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M., Potančoková, M. , Yildiz, D. , & Rowe, F. (2022). Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on immigration in receiving high-income countries. OSF Preprints 10.31219/osf.io/tqfu6. (Submitted)
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M. & Spijker, J. (2022). El impacto demográfico de la COVID-19 durante 2020 y sus diferencias regionales. ¿Cómo afectará la pandemia al futuro de la población española? [The demographic impact of COVID-19 during 2020 and its regional differences. How will the pandemic affect Spain's future population?]. Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles (93) 10.21138/bage.3201.
Gonzalez-Leonardo, M., López‐Gay, A., Newsham, N., Recaño, J., & Rowe, F. (2022). Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain. Population, Space and Place 28 e2578. 10.1002/psp.2578.
di Lego, V., Sanchez-Romero, M., & Prskawetz, A. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the Case Fatality Rate: The importance of monitoring breakthrough infections. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 119 178-183. 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.03.059.
Erokhin, D., Yosipof, A., & Komendantova, N (2022). COVID-19 pandemic and conspiracy theories. In: International Communication Association Regional Conference 2022 Computational Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe, 27-29 June 2022, Helsinki, Finland.
Stepanov, I. & Komendantova, N. (2022). Analyzing Russian Media Policy on Promoting Vaccination and Other COVID-19 Risk Mitigation Measures. Frontiers in Public Health 10 10.3389/fpubh.2022.839386.
Sanchez-Romero, M. (2022). Assessing the generational impact of COVID-19 using National Transfer Accounts (NTAs). In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022. pp. 1-35 Vienna Institute of Demography. ISBN 978-3-7001-8882-7 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res1.2.
Wilson, C. & van Ruijven, B. (2021). Long-term impacts of COVID-19 on energy use in transport and buildings. NAVIGATE project
Hourcade, J.C., Glemarec, Y., de Coninck, H., Bayat-Renoux, F., Ramakrishna, K., & Revi, A. (2021). Scaling up climate finance in the context of Covid-19:
A science-based call for financial decision-makers. Green Climate Fund , South Korea.