Do non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing mortality during a pandemic necessarily have adverse economic effects? We use variation in the timing and intensity of NPIs across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to examine their economic impact. While the pandemic itself was...

Problem definition: This paper describes the real-time participatory modeling work that our team of academics, public health officials, and clinical decision-makers has been undertaking to support the regional efforts to tackle COVID-19 in the East of England. Methodology: Since March 2020, we...

Effective pandemic governance is more important now than ever before. Especially since pandemic risk factors such as globalization, urbanization, international trade, and rapid population growth are contributing to its fast spread. In today's world, pandemics can spread within hours across...