American University of Beirut

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating countries around the world, locking people inside their homes, bringing economies to a standstill, overloading health systems and crippling their ability to fulfill their functions.  The demand for the right evidence to guide public health and health systems decisions is critical now more than ever, particularly in parts of the world where the cost of ill-informed decisions can have disastrous consequences on health, economies and human life. As such, K2P Center, the go-to knowledge hub to inform decision-making, launched the K2P COVID-19 Series Initiative to provide real-time evidence and bridge the gap between science, policy, and politics. Stay tuned for our daily updates and weekly products to fill a much-needed knowledge gap in how countries can overcome this emerging challenge.​

​​K2P COVID-19 Series Initiative

K2P COVID-19 Series is a collection of evidence-informed documents that aims to inform and provide insights for action to help shape the collective response needed to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak​.​

July 1, 2020

• ​​Building a Resilient Health Workforce in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries to Respond to​ the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond​​​​​ (Portuguese Version)
  

June 16, 2020

• ​​Advocating for Alternative Incentives for a Proactive Pharmaceutical R&D System: A Prompt from COVID-19​​​ (Portuguese Version)​​
  

May 28. 2019

• Prompting Government Action for Tobacco Control in Lebanon during COVID-19 Pandemic (English Version)​(Arabic Version)​
  

• K2P COVID-19 Series: Harnessing the Power of Digital Health in Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond​​​​​​ (Portuguese Version)
  

May, 8, 2020

• K2P COVID-19 Series: Protecting People with Cancer During COVID-19 Pandemic​ (Portuguese Version)
  

April 27, 2020 ​

• K2P COVID-19 Series: Exiting the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Road Map for Action​ (Arabic Version)​​ (Portuguese Version)​
  

​​April 21, 2020

• ​K2P COVID-19 Series:​ Strengthening the Role of Municipalities in Lebanon in Preventing and Containing COVID-19: A Roadmap (English Version) ​(Arabic Version) (Portuguese Version)​
  

April 15, 2020

• ​Suppressing COVID-19 ​​​Epidemic through Community-Centered Care Approach​​ (English Version) (Arabic Version)​ (Portuguese Version)​​
  

April 8, 2020​​

• Strengthening the Role of Local and International Non-Governmental Organizations in Pandemic Responses​(English Version) (Portuguese Version​)
  

March 31, 2020

• Informing Readiness and Response to COVID-19 in Hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centers​ (English Version) (Portuguese Version)​
  

March 21, 2020

• ​Informing Lebanon’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic​​ (English and Arabic Version)
  

March 17, 2020

• After the Pandemic: Reimagining the Role of State and Non-State Actors in (Re)building National Health Systems in the Arab World (English Version) (Arabic Version)
  
  

K2P COVID-19 Webinars​

Based on the main findings of the K2P COVID-19 series product, “Advocating for Alternative Incentives for a Proactive Pharmaceutical R&D System”, the webinar hosted Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, from John Hopkins, and Mr. Patricio Marquez, a former World Bank Group lead health specialist with more than 30 years of experience in pandemic response.​ The webinar was moderated by Dr. Farah Yehia from John Hopkins

The webinar highlighted the different digital health technologies utilized in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, discussed the region’s readiness to harness the rapid adoption of these technologies, addressed concerns related to equity and patient privacy, and discussed key strategies to make the most out of digital health and available resources.

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