Publications by authors named "Nia Z"
Background: Controlling re-emerging outbreaks such as COVID-19 is a critical concern to global health. Disease forecasting solutions are extremely beneficial to public health emergency management. This work aims to design and deploy a framework for real-time surveillance, prediction, forecasting, and early warning of respiratory disease.
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- The ongoing H5N1 avian influenza outbreak has severely affected public health and agriculture, with over 900 human infections and a high fatality rate since 1997, complicating containment efforts due to new viral strains.
- This review emphasizes the importance of understanding risk factors for H5N1 transmission and the need for comprehensive surveillance strategies that consider various demographic, socioeconomic, and ecological factors.
- It advocates for the integration of technology, such as AI and mathematical modeling, into a One-Health approach to enhance outbreak forecasting, detection, and response, while highlighting the necessity of international collaboration and biosecurity measures to control future outbreaks.
Social media contains useful information about people and society that could help advance research in many different areas of health (e.g. by applying opinion mining, emotion/sentiment analysis and statistical analysis) such as mental health, health surveillance, socio-economic inequality and gender vulnerability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfter struggling with COVID-19 pandemic for two years, the world is finally recovering from this crisis. Nonetheless, another virus, Monkeypox, is quickly spreading throughout the world and in non-endemic regions and continents, threatening the world to a new pandemic. Twitter as a popular social media has successfully been used for predicting and controlling outbreaks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe global economy has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries are experiencing a severe and destructive recession. A significant number of firms and businesses have gone bankrupt or been scaled down, and many individuals have lost their jobs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the global economy. In this paper, we use the Phillips curve to compare and analyze the macroeconomics of three different countries with distinct income levels, namely, lower-middle (Nigeria), upper-middle (South Africa), and high (Canada) income. We aim to (1) find macroeconomic changes in the three countries during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic time, (2) compare the countries in terms of response to the COVID-19 economic crisis, and (3) compare their expected economic reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in the near future.
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