Background: Infectious disease outbreaks require decision makers to make rapid decisions
under time pressure and situations of scientific uncertainty, and yet the role of evidence …

Background: In public health emergencies, evidence, intervention, decisions and translation
proceed simultaneously, in greatly compressed timeframes, with knowledge and advice …

Research suggests that evidence-based decision making is particularly prominent in
policymaking during pandemic crises [1, 2]. Evidence-based decision making is generally …

Background Decision-makers in crisis zones are faced with the challenge of having to make
health-related decisions under limited time and resource constraints and in light of the many …

Decision makers are responsible for directing staffing, logistics, selecting public health
interventions, communicating to professionals and the public, planning future response …

When responding to a novel infectious disease outbreak, policies are set under time
constraints and uncertainty which can limit the ability to control the outbreak and result in …

Catastrophic epidemics, if they occur, will very likely start from localized and far smaller (non-
catastrophic) outbreaks that grow into much greater threats. One key bulwark against this …

Introduction The exceptional production of research evidence during the COVID-19
pandemic required deployment of scientists to act in advisory roles to aid policy-makers in …

Optimal Evidence in Difficult Settings: Improving Health Interventions and Decision Making in
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COVID-19 has demonstrated that most countries' public health systems and capacities are
insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading …