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Revisiting CNA's Pandemic Conference of 2006 — The View from 2020

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In February 2006, CNA convened a conference of public health and government officials, medical experts and regional specialists to discuss the science and politics of pandemics, particularly as pertains to Asia.

Revisiting CNA's Pandemic Conference of 2006 - The View from 2020 In February 2006, CNA convened a conference of public health and government officials, medical experts and regional specialists ... a conference of public health and government officials, medical experts and regional specialists to discuss the science and politics of pandemics, particularly as pertains to Asia. Two public health crises tied to Asia provided the impetus for hosting the event. The first was the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or SARS-CoV. The second was the global public health crisis

Three Factors Drive Right-Wing Violence. We Can’t Solve the Problem Without Addressing All of Them.

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Domestic terrorism is a product of a complex mix of three factors: mental illness, guns, and political divisiveness, including racism and authoritarianism.

Violence. Jessica Stern and Megan McBride Terrorism expert Jessica Stern is a senior fellow at both CNA and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as a research professor at Boston University. She is the author of five books, including Terror in the Name of God . CNA Research Scientist Megan McBride is also a fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has led CNA ... at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that is seeking to understand how and why people radicalize, commit acts of violence, and deradicalize. The former violent extremists we’ve interviewed

COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

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President-elect Biden announced plans to release nearly all available COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. when he takes office in an effort to speed up delivery of the vaccine to Americans.

to Americans. /images/InDepth/post72.jpg COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain 72 Eric Trabert Eric Trabert serves as Director and Chief Scientist of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience. Last ... . However, with fewer than 12 million Americans having received the COVID-19 vaccine to date, there is intense pressure on government officials to vaccinate the public faster. But does Biden’s proposal actually address the root cause of the problems plaguing the vaccine rollout? The path from vaccine manufacturing, to distribution to states and local jurisdictions, to dispensing to the public

ai with ai: Xenopus in Boots

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a report from the School of Public Health in Boston that shows why most “data for good” initiatives failed to impact the COVID-19 health crisis [0:45]. The Department of Homeland Security tests the use of robot dogs (from Ghost Robotics) for border patrol duties [5:00]. Researchers find that public trust in AI varies greatly depending on its application [7:52]. Researchers from Stanford University and Toyota Research Institute find extensive label and model errors in training data, such as over 70% of validation scenes (for publicly available autonomous vehicle datasets) containing at least one missing object box [12:05]. And principal researchers Josh Bongard and Mike Levin join Andy and Dave for more discussion on the latest Xenobots research [18:21].

Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including a report from the School of Public Health in Boston that shows why most “data for good” initiatives failed to impact the COVID-19 health crisis [0:45]. The Department of Homeland Security tests the use of robot dogs (from Ghost Robotics) for border patrol duties [5:00]. Researchers find that public trust in AI varies greatly ... on the latest Xenobots research [18:21]. /images/AI-Posters/Season%205/AI_5_8.jpg Xenopus in Boots Announcements / News Why "data for good" initiatives mostly failed to impact the COVID-19 public health

ai with ai: D.E.R.Y.L.

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In news, Andy and Dave discuss a machine learning algorithm from Synergies Intelligent System and Universität Hamburg that can identify people in a moving crowd who are mostly likely asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19. US lawmakers have introduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, to boost privacy protections for COVID-19 technology such as tracing apps and vaccine scheduling apps. A team led by researchers from Oxford have introduced new reporting guidelines to bridge a gap in development to implementation when using clinical AI technologies, dubbed DECIDE-AI. Over 30 authors from a wide swath of organizations have proposed a “living benchmark” to evaluate progress in natural language generation, which they call GEM (Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics). And the combination we saw coming, research from Queen Mary University demonstrate a deep learning framework for detection of emotion using wireless signals. Researchers at the University of Virginia claim to detect physiological responses to racial bias with 76.1% accuracy, though it more focuses on exploring any link between mental associations of skin color. In research, Stanford researchers explore how learning and evolution occur in complex environments, and how they affect the diversity of morphological forms, with DERL (Deep Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning). Researchers from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, introduce GANs for editing images via their latent space, which provides greater control over editing (e.g., editing a mouth without re-generating the entire face). And in the video of the week, a 12-minute video provides a short history on DARPA with highlights on many of its military robot programs. Listener Survey

carriers of COVID-19. US lawmakers have introduced the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, to boost privacy protections for COVID-19 technology such as tracing apps and vaccine scheduling apps. A team ... AI Predicts Asymptomatic Carriers of COVID-19 Nontechnical summary Technical paper Public Health Emergency Privacy Act Press release Public Health Emergency Privacy Act ... Pre-Training Contain Human-like Biases Nontechnical summary Technical paper Report of the Week U.S. Public Opinion About AI: Declining Support for Development and Divided Views on FR

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 41, June 27, 2022

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of technological sovereignty In numerous public forums, Vladimir Putin recently spoke about the importance of Russia’s technological sovereignty. As he elaborated on this need, he drew connections between technical sovereignty and public, economic, and military-political sovereignty. These types of sovereignty are all intertwined, and the improvement of one will inherently affect the others ... in conjunction with city video surveillance systems. The innovation is designed to determine the degree of congestion of public spaces, but law enforcement agencies will get access to the system

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 43, August 8, 2022

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DEVELOPMENT TRIES TO MODERNIZE NATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION The Ministry of Economic Development is slated to receive 4.8 billion rubles (81,702,124.80 USD) to finance the introduction of digital technology into the public administration field, according to a CNEWS article. There are plans to create a Unified National System for the Development of Regulatory Decisions and a Unified Automated Information System for Supporting Socially Oriented Non-Profit Organizations to introduce a system that can assess quality of public services and use AI to document management tasks for all the above

Law Enforcement-Community Engagement

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As law enforcement agencies navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health education efforts.

more successful public health education efforts. /images/InDepth/Post78.jpg Law Enforcement-Community Engagement 78 Jessica Dockstader, Tom Woodmansee and Abdi Mohamed Jessica Dockstader is a Research ... navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice after the death of George Floyd in May 2020, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health ... , public health officials and HCSO worked together to visit homeless encampments to deliver food, face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE), with the goal of educating people experiencing

Law Enforcement Deaths by Suicide

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The first analysis of a database of 1,287 suicide deaths of police and correctional officers examines age, location, job, life challenges, and other factors.

challenges, and other factors. Introduction Police and correctional officers (hereafter referred to as public safety personnel) routinely confront arduous and psychologically taxing circumstances that can adversely affect their mental and emotional health. In a thorough survey encompassing 2,232 law enforcement officers, Mumford and colleagues (2021) noted that although two-thirds displayed healthy behaviors, approximately one-fourth encountered moderate health challenges, and a minority (6 percent) grappled with more severe health issues. Similarly, a separate study conducted by Drew

ai and autonomy in russia: Issue 38, May 16, 2022

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that such unscrupulous economic support will create. He claims that the IT industry is a derivative of the overall economy, and that such widespread public support measures will have consequences ... to IT professionals and teachers to ensure entrepreneurial and scientific student activities under a public IT education. In his statement, Chernyshenko clarified that the international sanctions have ... kilometers. Russia’s Rosgvardiya was stood up as a separate force in 2016, and is tasked with securing Russia's borders, combating terrorism and organized crime, protecting public order, and guarding