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      <title>ABSPIE Lab involved in pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial research with the House of Lords</title>
      <link>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a1785d88c1a587f018c401fa2526f3c</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Katy Stokes,&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;PhD student in the &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/"&gt;ABSPIE Lab &lt;/a&gt;with Prof Leandro &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/leandro-pecchia/" title="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/leandro-pecchia/"&gt;Pecchia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; has &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;started working on a part-time &lt;a href="https://bsac.org.uk/call-for-applications-bsac-parliamentary-internship-programme/"&gt;Parliamentary Internship with the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy&lt;/a&gt;. Working directly with House of Lords member Baroness Natalie Bennett, Katy has supported publication of two articles exploring the &lt;a href="https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/health/antimicrobial-resistance-a-key-aspect-of-pandemic-preparedness/"&gt;interconnectedness of pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="https://bsac.org.uk/deforestation-is-driving-antimicrobial-resistance-and-threatening-global-health-security-the-uk-must-step-in-to-find-solutions/"&gt;role of deforestation in driving antimicrobial resistance&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;The first article features research outputs from the ABSPIE Lab, in particular from a project led by Dr&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/davide_piaggio/"&gt; Davide Piaggio &lt;/a&gt;in collaboration with &lt;/span&gt;Dr &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/gsd/aboutus/peoplenew/camilla_audia/"&gt;Camilla Audia&lt;/a&gt; (Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development), and Prof &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/people/sharifah_sekalala/"&gt;Sharifah Sekalala&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/about/centres/wcfgh/phdstudents/hmasud/"&gt;Haleema Masud&lt;/a&gt; (School of Law). The research: &#8220;&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a17841b87279eb6018727b96b510074"&gt;Pandemic Management and Preparedness &amp;ndash; Telemedicine and the Role of Innovative Technologies in Securing a Safer Future&lt;/a&gt;&#8221; discusses key lessons learned from the literature and 2023 European Parliament Interest Group event.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WHO Mentions ABSPIE&#8217;s Paper on Smart Environments and Robots for Infection Prevention Control in Latest Global Research and Innovation for Health Emergencies Report</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The World Health Organization (WHO) has mentioned the paper &amp;quot;The use of Smart Environments and Robots for Infection Prevention Control: a systematic literature review&amp;quot; by Piaggio et al. (2023) in its latest Global Research and Innovation for Health Emergencies report. The report, which was released on October 10, 2023, highlights the most important and promising research and innovation on infection prevention and control (IPC).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ABSPIE publication success &#8211; Pandemic Preparedness: A Scoping Review of Best and Worst Practices from COVID-19</title>
      <link>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a17841a8aad4802018ab1cafe1a2013</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This work was undertaken between the ABSPIE lab, Dr Camilla Audia (Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development), and Prof Sharifah Sekalala and Haleema Masud (School of Law). The article discusses key lessons learned from the literature and the 2023 European Parliament Interest Group event, &#8220;&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a17841b87279eb6018727b96b510074"&gt;Pandemic Management and Preparedness &amp;ndash; Telemedicine and the Role of Innovative Technologies in Securing a Safer Future&lt;/a&gt;&#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:53:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ABSPIE's contributions at the 16th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON)</title>
      <link>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a17841b8a840eb0018aa9317bd30544</link>
      <description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The 16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON) and the 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (CMBEBIH) were held from September, 14 until 16, 2023, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was supported and endorsed by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://ifmbe.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;IFMBE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;(Prof Leandro Pecchia is Secretary General) &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eambes.org/"&gt;EAMBES&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;(Prof Leandro Pecchia is Past President) &lt;/span&gt;and the ABSPIE lab represented the School of Engineering of the University of Warwick in this international gathering and had a great participation. The event, which was attended by delegates from all over the world, focused on the importance of biomedical engineering and healthcare technology in addressing various healthcare and global challenges and aimed also to enable participants to establish valuable business contacts, exchange ideas and experiences, and develop collaborations in the field of digitalization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The contributions of the ABSPIE Lab were numerous.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ABSPIE's contributions at the 16th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON)</title>
      <link>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/research/grouplist/biomedicaleng/abspie/abspie_news/?newsItem=8a17841b8a840eb0018aa92eea660542</link>
      <description>&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The 16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON) and the 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (CMBEBIH) were held from September, 14 until 16, 2023, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was supported and endorsed by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://ifmbe.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;IFMBE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;(Prof Leandro Pecchia is Secretary General) &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eambes.org/"&gt;EAMBES&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class="normaltextrun"&gt;(Prof Leandro Pecchia is Past President) &lt;/span&gt;and the ABSPIE lab represented the School of Engineering of the University of Warwick in this international gathering and had a great participation. The event, which was attended by delegates from all over the world, focused on the importance of biomedical engineering and healthcare technology in addressing various healthcare and global challenges and aimed also to enable participants to establish valuable business contacts, exchange ideas and experiences, and develop collaborations in the field of digitalization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The contributions of the ABSPIE Lab were numerous.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:45:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Warwick School of Engineering at the Africa Region Biomedical Engineering Conference</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;The 1st edition of the &lt;a href="https://ifmbe2023.co.ke/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Africa Region Biomedical Engineering and Health Technology Conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;is being&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt; held in Nairobi, Kenya, from the 6th to 8th of September of 2023. This was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;organised&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt; by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="Hyperlink SCXW50654293 BCX0" href="https://amek.or.ke/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-color: initial; color: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="none" class="TextRun Underlined SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"&gt;AMEK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW115224007 BCX0"&gt;Kenya, supported by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="Hyperlink SCXW50654293 BCX0" href="https://ifmbe.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-align: justify; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-color: initial; color: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="none" class="TextRun Underlined SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink"&gt;IFMBE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span data-contrast="auto" class="TextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt; Africa Biomedical Engineering working group, which also has representatives at Warwick (Dr Davide Piaggio), and by the IFMBE (Prof Leandro Pecchia is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;ecretary &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50654293 BCX0"&gt;eneral).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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