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Morris, Andrew (@ASPphysician). “Prompted by several posts and threads, I am going to outline what I view as the “A-PAC Approach.” Twitter thread, Nov 2, 2020.

Prompted by several posts and threads, I am going to outline what I view as the "A-PAC Approach" A-PAC refers to Asia-Pacfic and Atlantic Canada: 🇦🇺(25M), 🇨🇳(1.39B), 🇯🇵(126M), 🇳🇿 (5M), 🇰🇷(52M), 🇹🇼(24M), 🇹🇭(69M), and 🇻🇳(96M). Atlantic 🇨🇦 has 4 provinces ((NS, NB, NFLD, PEI, 2.4M) — Andrew Morris (@ASPphysician) November 2, 2020 Prompted by several […]

Haug, N., Geyrhofer, L., et al. 2020. “Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions.” Nature Human Behaviour volume 4, pages 1303–1312 (2020) 16 November 2020

Assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is critical to inform future preparedness response plans. Here we quantify the impact of 6,068 hierarchically coded NPIs implemented in 79 territories on the effective reproduction number, Rt, of COVID-19. We propose a modelling approach that combines four computational techniques merging statistical, inference and […]

Glenn, J., Chaumont, C., et al. 2020. “Public health leadership in the times of COVID-19: a comparative case study of three countries.” International Journal of Public Leadership, ISSN: 2056-4929, 30 October 2020

Purpose The purpose is to understand the role of public leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic and advocate for a more active role of public health professionals in helping manage the crisis. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the framework developed by Boin et al. (2005) on crisis leadership. The authors focus on three of the core tasks – sense-making, […]

Nicola, M., Sohrabi, C., et al. 2020. “Health policy and leadership models during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review.” International Journal of Surgery, Volume 81, September 2020, Pages 122-129

On March 11, 2020, the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Approximately 19.3 million people have now been infected and over 700,000 have died. This global public health crisis has since cascaded into a series of challenges for leaders around the world, threatening both the health […]

ARTICLE: “Government transition in the time of the COVID-19 crisis: Slovak case”

Government transition in the time of the COVID-19 crisis: Slovak case Juraj Nemec International Journal of Public Leadership 10 August 2020 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJPL-05-2020-0040/full/html Abstract Most media evaluate Slovakia as the most successful European country in the fight against the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Such excellent results have been achieved in a really specific period […]

Garikipati, Supriya and Uma Kambhampati. 2020. “Women leaders are better at fighting the pandemic.” The World Economic Forum COVID Action Platform, 28 Jul 2020.

COVID-19 cases could be related to the gender of a country’s leader. The findings show that COVID outcomes are systematically better in countries led by women. Female leaders were found to be locking their countries down far sooner than their male counterparts. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/women-leaders-policymakers-covid19-coronavirus/

Garikipati, Supriya and Uma Kambhampati. 2020. “Leading the Fight Against the Pandemic: Does Gender ‘Really’ Matter?” Centre for Economic Policy Research, Covid Economics 26, 5 June 2020: 1-16

Since the start of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the relationship between national female leaders and their effectiveness in handling the COVID-crisis has received a lot of media attention. In this paper we scrutinise this association more systematically. We ask if there is a significant and systematic difference by gender of the national leader in the […]

Champoux-Paillé, L. and Croteau, A-M. 2020. “Management styles, attributed to female leaders are helping them to excel in dealing with coronavirus.” The World Economic Forum COVID Action Platform, 18 May 2020.

Countries with female leaders at the helm have been in the spotlight for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Skills required to make effective decisions in a health crisis, including pragmatism and benevolence, are common features of female management. Two academics argue the challenges of the 21st-century call for a new type of leadership, one […]

Mazur, Amy G., Hoard, Season. (2014) Gendering Comparative Policy Studies: Towards Better Science. In Engeli I., Allison C.R. (eds) Comparative Policy Studies. Research Methods Series (REMES). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Feminist policy scholars in Western Europe first acknowledged the empirical gaps and gender biases in theory and methodology used in the study of the state and policy in the early 1980s. By the early 1990s, researchers in North America and Australia joined their Western European counterparts in the new feminist academic enterprise that sought to […]