The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to rapid and widespread international pursuit of
wastewater surveillance for genetic signals of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the pandemic. …

Extant literature has increased our understanding of the multifaceted nature of digital
technologies; nevertheless, scholars and policymakers still strive to understand their implications …

Social distancing is an important and necessary measure to help arrest the spread of SARS-CoV-2
during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it does place persons who are socially or …

Modelling is a major method of inquiry in health economics. In other modelling-intensive fields,
such as climate science, recent scholarship has described how social and ethical values …

One of the critical topics in contemporary innovation management literature concerns what
constitutes innovation capability (IC) at the firm level. There have been many attempts to …

The unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa has raised several
novel ethical issues for global outbreak preparedness. It has also illustrated that familiar …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)–the progressive process by which microbes, such as
bacteria, through evolutionary, environmental and social factors develop the ability to become …

In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in early July 2020, Victoria’s chief health officer Brett
Sutton justified the ‘hard lockdown’of the public housing towers in Melbourne on the basis of …

Background Pandemic influenza may exacerbate existing scarcity of life-saving medical
resources. As a result, decision-makers may be faced with making tough choices about who will …

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