Improving COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness and response through the downstream of multi-hazard early warning system

多年来，许多国家对需要加强大流行防范的警告重视不足，现在正遭受痛苦。世卫组织已宣布COVID-19为大流行，但其潜在因素、脆弱性和影响远远超出了卫生部门，在斯里兰卡，它使政府和应对机构不堪重负。这项研究将解决两个相互关联的挑战：如果在COVID-19大流行期间发生重大自然灾害，各国将如何应对？大流行防范如何利用现有基础设施来应对其他危害？项目小组将试图了解大流行-自然灾害混合情景的潜在影响。它还将努力改进这类事件的预警和准备工作，以及提供和利用多灾种预警系统和灾害风险信息，其中包括大流行病/生物灾害，这也是《减灾战略纲要》的目标G。我们将研究如何更好地将公共卫生行为体纳入MHEW环境，以及如何将大流行威胁纳入国家和地方减灾战略，以此应对这些挑战。我们将探讨COVID-19对应对其他灾害能力的影响，无论是多个同时发生的事件，还是级联影响，并考虑如何将COVID-19和公共卫生监测与MHEW的“最后一英里”协同起来。大流行是全球性的，但防范和应对是地方性的，而这种应对在很大程度上取决于治理、法律、文化、风险认知和公民行为。该研究是与斯里兰卡卫生和减少灾害风险机构密切合作设计的，这些机构确定了需要探索的主要差距。该小组将制定和传播指导，以便更好地将大流行和其他生物危害纳入国家和地方的减灾准备和应对工作

Many countries are now suffering after years of insufficient attention to warnings about the need for improved pandemic preparedness. The WHO has declared COVID-19 a pandemic, but its underlying factors, vulnerabilities and impacts go far beyond the health sector, and in Sri Lanka, it is overwhelming government and response agencies. This study will address two, inter-related challenges: How will countries cope if a major natural hazard occurs while the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing? How can pandemic preparedness make use of the existing infrastructure for tackling other hazards? The project team will attempt to understand the potential impact of a pandemic-natural hazard hybrid scenario. It will also seek to improve early warning and preparedness for such an event, as well as the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEW) and disaster risk information that include pandemic/biological hazards, which is also Target G of the SFDRR [1]. We will address these challenges by examining how public health actors be better included within a MHEW environment and how pandemic threats are integrated within national and local DRR strategies. We will explore the impact of COVID-19 on the response capabilities for other hazards, either multiple simultaneous events, or cascading impacts, and consider how COVID-19 and public health surveillance can be synergised with "the last mile" of MHEW. Pandemic is global, but the preparedness and response is local, and that response is very dependent on governance, laws, culture, risk perception and citizen behaviour. The study has been designed in close collaboration with Sri Lankan health and DRR agencies who identified the key gaps that need exploring. The team will develop and disseminate guidance to better incorporate pandemics and other biological hazards into national and local DRR preparedness and response