• COVAX and the challenges of worldwide vaccine access

    Articles, Health

    Vaccines are showing us a way out of the coronavirus pandemic, but vaccine access is still shockingly inequitable. Over a billion doses have been administered since December 2020, but the vast majority have gone to citizens of high-income countries. The COVAX initiative, a unique collaboration led by...

    on June 16, 2021

  • European responses to the corona crisis – Part 14

    Other

    During the Coronavirus crises, the European Science-Media Hub is collecting and publishing a regular update of the most relevant releases provided by EU institutions and other European and global actors. 🆕 Last Update : 18 June 2021

    on June 11, 2021

  • EU project : HERoS

    EU projects
    HERoS is a Horizon 2020  project funded under the ‘SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020 – Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic’ call. As a social sciences research project, HERoS addresses the need to understand the social dynamics of the outbreak and the related...
    on June 09, 2021

  • HERoS: How can we improve our response to health emergencies?

    Articles, Communication

    A European research consortium (HERoS) was set up to learn from the present COVID-19 pandemic and to provide decision-makers with the necessary information and tools to more efficiently and effectively respond to future disease outbreaks. Some outcomes of this collaboration include a tool to optimise...

    on June 09, 2021

  • ESMH Media Review – June 2, 2021

    Media review

    Disinformation, climate change & electric cars: check out the ESMH selection of 29 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web.

    on June 02, 2021

  • Mike S. Schäfer: 'Science is a matter of facts, not opinions'

    Articles, Information Society
    Mike Schäfer from the University of Zurich talks about why the pandemic has amplified science journalists’ fatigue, how accelerated science affects the quality of reporting, and how politics can ease the burden.     How has the pandemic affected science journalism?   Mike Schäfer: The pandemic has changed...
    on May 26, 2021

  • Provenance: ‘Stop and think’ before sharing online content

    Articles, Disinformation

    Challenging dis- information in the news requires a multi faceted, multi disciplinary and multi media approach. The EU funded project ‘Provenance’ focuses on helping people evaluate online content, equipping them with media literacy skills and discouraging the sharing of unreliable information. Could...

    on May 19, 2021

  • ESMH Media Review – May 12, 2021

    Media review

    Disinformation, AI & Covid-19: check out the ESMH selection of 29 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web.

    on May 12, 2021

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