Fighting the Power of an Image

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Entry by Emma Naslund-Hadley and Juan Manuel Hernández-Agramonte


Images are powerful, even mental images. If you cannot imagine yourself doing something, the odds that you will do it drops. International research that asks students to draw mathematicians and scientists, reveal that both boys and girls tend to picture them as male and white.

The power of Black women

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For the most excluded racial and ethnic communities, the current limits to freedom are not the first, evidence of this include other pandemics, poverty, and forced displacement. In the context of COVID-19, we have recognized that structural racism is one of the most significant challenges for the global agenda, along with the climate crisis and violence against women and children.

Strategies for School Reopenings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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When considering the reopening of schools, four key sanitary criteria should be
considered to ensure that students and teachers alike are safe:
A. Ensure social distancing;
B. Keep schools clean and disinfected;
C. Ensure that students and teachers enter school healthy and stay healthy; and
D. Provide easy access to hand washing facilities.

Strategies for School Reopenings during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

When considering the reopening of schools, four key sanitary criteria should be
considered to ensure that students and teachers alike are safe:
A. Ensure social distancing;
B. Keep schools clean and disinfected;
C. Ensure that students and teachers enter school healthy and stay healthy; and
D. Provide easy access to hand washing facilities.

Detect, Prevent, Respond, Recover Digitally: Speaking the Same Language for Digital Solution in Public Health Emergencies

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This brochure summarizes key information for speaking the same language for digital solutions in public health emergencies. It introduces different types of digital interventions such as; crisis communication and engaging the public, epidemiological intelligence, clinical management for COVID-19 cases and remote services, management of the public private health systems response, health data management and analysis, and systems for recovery and returning to the new normal. Furthermore, the document answers what do we need in order to implement digital solutions.

Detect, Prevent, Respond, Recover Digitally: Speaking the Same Language for Digital Solution in Public Health Emergencies

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

This brochure summarizes key information for speaking the same language for digital solutions in public health emergencies. It introduces different types of digital interventions such as; crisis communication and engaging the public, epidemiological intelligence, clinical management for COVID-19 cases and remote services, management of the public private health systems response, health data management and analysis, and systems for recovery and returning to the new normal. Furthermore, the document answers what do we need in order to implement digital solutions.

Towards 30% Climate Finance: How Can Buildings Contribute to It?: Guide for the Incorporation and Accounting of Mitigation and Adaptation Measures to Climate Change

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The guidelines, addressed to team leaders and executors, explain how buildings, both of social infrastructure and other sectors, can contribute to meeting the 30% goal of climate financing that the IDB Group has set for the year 2020. These guidelines outline those mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change that can be incorporated and accounted for in Bank projects that include design, improvement and / or construction of buildings.