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Reflect and report some factors related to healthcare resources during the pandemic, categorized by a STEEP letter in your setting.

According to the principle of information security or CIA Triad, have you ever had experience about not being able to preserve the confidentiality or Integrity or Availablity of your information system? Please share that experience.

What happened?
How did it affect the system or users?
And how to prevent it?

Which you are highly recommended to listen.

Discuss the leadership styles Steve Job took and/or discuss your favorite leader and their styles

Pro/Con Six Leadership styles and What other styles you would like to try?

Please write a short paragraph about yourself to describe a moment where you decided to step out from your comfort zone and take a new action (5 points).

Say …

WHY did you decide to do that?

WHAT did it feel like after the event?

WHAT did you gain from this new experience? (could be good and bad)

To be fair, this is mine:

I have been a e…[Read more]

Please watch VDOs of public communication regarding COVID-19 situation from the leaders of two countries: Singapore and the USA. Then try to observe whether the two leaders are good communicators or not. When watching the VDOs try to look for the six principles of CREC, recommended by the CDC:

Please read a provided article:

Mahmood S., et al. Global preparedness against COVID-19: We must leverage the power of digital health. ( JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020; 6(2):e18980

The article provides examples and case studies on the application of digital technologies to strengthen the preparedness of COVID-19 pandemic. According to the…[Read more]

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?

Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?

In your opinion, is there a disease or condition that may potentially lead to PHEIC in the future? Why?

In the case study of the surveillance of melioidosis disease, it is interesting to see a large discrepancy of number of deaths between the national reporting system and the actual number of death cases from hospitals. We would not be able to recognize this until we did the evaluation.

What would be the consequences of inaccurate data reported to…[Read more]

According to steps of outbreak investigation, how could information technology be applied to assist the outbreak investigation process?

Please read the article by Jobie Budd, et al. Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19. (2020) Nature Medicine. Vol 26:1183-1192

This article gave examples on the application of digital technologies to enhance COVID-19 surveillance and response. Please give 1 technology or tool that you like most and briefly explain how it…[Read more]

Please read the article by Jillian Murray and Adam L Cohen. Infectious Disease Surveillance. (2017) International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition, Volume 4.

Think about COVID-19 disease…
How can surveillance help to detect and control the disease?
Should we conduct active or passive surveillance or both for the disease, why?
Which…[Read more]

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail)—this could be the same system you mentioned in the previous topic discussion (Topic 1). Do you think that the organization appropriately managed the change or not? Think about ADKAR model that we just learned.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail). What are main factors that make the system successful or failure (Data, Cost, Operation, Design, and People)?