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Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020, after the first infections in China at the end of 2019, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global emergency and continued to spread across the world. No country, including Republic of Benin in Africa and Italy in Europe, has been able to escape this disease. Its impact on human health, is disrupting an interconnected world economy through global value chains, given the impact on the entire world population and the economy.

In Benin, from 14th March 2020, the evolution of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is epidemiologically recorded at 3363 cases confirmed, 95 cases recovered, 46 case dead (January 2021).

Even if the social contexts seem very different, the pandemic creates in healthcare systems of all around the world, a generalized condition of low-resource settings (LRSs), i.e., environments lacking means, specific knowledge, specialized personnel, medical devices, and drugs, and with inappropriate medical locations. In fact, while this condition was already familiar to low- and middle-income countries, COVID-19 has overwhelmingly reported LRS conditions in high-income countries, such as Europe. In addition, the social and ethical impact of the pandemic calls sociology and bioethics to reflect on the perception that the population has of this situation, i.e. the possibility to respect the measures of isolation, the availability of personal protection equipment, the criteria for access to the scarce health resources available.

Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre For International Development

Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent e-Health Lab

15 March 2021 • 10-11am (UK time)

Alessia Maccaro - University of Warwick

Leandro Pecchia - University of Warwick

Davide Piaggio - University of Warwick

Marius Vignigbé - University of Abomey-Calavi

Roch A. Houngnihin - University of Abomey-Calavi

https://tinyurl.com/wicidcovidbenin

5G will be leveraged to realise new opportunities for regional businesses, academic researchers, University staff and students. Warwick is the first University campus that has proactively been given 5G activation by BT.

Learn how this can change our lives.

Hear from expert speakers:

Wendy Coy – Director of Operations, Innovation Group, and Facilitator

David Plumb – Chief Innovation Officer, Innovation Group, University of Warwick

Lucy Baker – Service Technology Director, CTIO, BT Enterprise

Darren Farmer – Business Development Director, BT

Professor Theodoros N. Arvanitis holds the Chair of Digital Health Innovation and he is the Director of The Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, at University of Warwick.

Dr Leandro Pecchia – Associate Professor (reader) of Biomedical Engineering. Director of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab

Robert Franks – Managing Director of West Midlands 5G Limited

Link to the event

Silvio Pagliara held the webinar: How technology and AI can improve the quality of life. Archipelago 2035 – Russian Federation, Multiple Universities

The speech was an overview on the design of the Assistive technology and how the Artificial Intelligence is changing them towards a true empowerment of people with disabilities in everyday life.

Link to the event

(in Russian - use the browser automatic translation tool)

dr Leandro Pecchia has been invited as Young Scientist in the WLF 2020 Young Scientist Forum 8 - Artificial Intelligence Session I

Artificial intelligence and innovation information technologies are now ubiquitous, and they are growing in importance in almost every discipline. Young scientists from the U.S.A., Singapore, China will present applications of artificial intelligence in smart cities and new infrastructure, tailing mining industry, laboratory automation, and the social media experience. There is also discussion of robots to support commercial and emergency scenarios, as part of a smarter future.

Demographic changes push the NHS to contain costs, while keeping healthcare safe and effective. Hospitals remain a critical node of the NHS accounting for the majority of helathcare costs.

We are part of a European team that has been awarded a new Horizon 2020 project, for changing clinical and logistic procedures in hospitals using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and robots.

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