The objective of this brief is to examine how digital health interventions were used during past public health emergency situations from 2005-2020 to derive lessons learned and to analyze which types of digital health interventions were the most useful and relevant to deal with current and future situations. The brief answers four main questions 1) What are digital health interventions for public health emergencies and why do they matter?; 2) What can we learn from past experiences?; 3) What do we know from evidence?; and 4) What does this mean for current and future outbreaks.

We conducted a discrete choice experiment to elicit revealed preferences of low-income women for job flexibility. We did so without deception reversing the methodology proposed by Kessler et al. (2019) for job seekers. We contrast the role of flexible time schedule with that of part-time employment. We find large willingness-to-pay for flexible schedule within a full-time contract but much less desire to trade-off wages for part-time contracts. This is not driven by inattention although participants appear to learn over the course of the experiment.

Almost all schools in Latin America and the Caribbean are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ensuring the continuity of learning during the COVID-19 emergency is the main challenge faced by the education systems of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the entire world. Unequal access to technology, connectivity and digital resources characterizes the countries of the region. It is essential to assist the most vulnerable groups of students and provide the necessary tools to families, teachers and school principals to enable learning at home.

The COVID-19 pandemic has come at a time of economic weakness in the Latin American and Caribbean region: in recent years there has been a deterioration in GDP per capita, as well as an increase in labor informality, which has already reached 56% of workers. Some projections estimate that, due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus, between the region and between 5.4 and 18 million jobs may be lost, which would raise the percentage of informal work to 62% of all jobs. This document collects the existing labor policy options to face the impact of COVID-19 in the labor market.

Electronic health record (EHR) systems are increasingly considered to be one of the most relevant information technology tools for strengthening health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Despite this interest, few LAC countries have adopted EHR systems at scale. This document uses the available evidence to provide policy makers and other stakeholders with general insights about EHR systems.