Edward Meinert

Edward Meinert

I am a chartered engineer, and my research interests are centred on digital health and its application to global public health challenges.

Location Oxford

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  • What could be done to control this occurring?

  • This is interesting @ShaunRowark ; could you elaborate?

  • We will discuss this more in the course!

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  • Conflicts and wars are triggered by multiple complicated factors and some of these factors can be directly affected by environmental conditions such as droughts. Think about it this way; a drought increases the demand for water, water scarcity leads to violence and conflict over resources affecting the economic state of the country leading to political conflicts.

  • Geophysical disasters referred to in the graph are primarily earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, whereas weather hazards are mostly floods and storms or typhoons. The graph shows how many people were forced to leave their homes due to weather and geographical related hazards in the years 2008-2014 on a global level. You can learn more about this graph by...

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  • Thanks for the feedback; we will look to make this improvement in the next course run.

  • What surprised you?

  • Great to think so; why do you believe it is key?

  • Love this site!

  • @MatimbaSwana How do you think this could be addressed?

  • @JoanneWhite Thank you very much for your feedback. We will look to make the course less UK specific in the next run and we look forward to hear about your energies in efforts to combat climate change!

  • @PaulCliffordHough Outstanding point - Dr Murray did not mean to convey that climate change is over; it is continuous and it is up to us to take action given it's impact

  • @keithmiles Seriously though, do you believe there are good counter-arguments to the links we have conveyed?

  • The lid is made from repurposed materials

  • @JamesBailey I see now!

  • @LesleneWOODWARD Thank you for this feedback. Our core team is UK based and we need to work harder in subsequent course runs to make this course more global. We will do this in the next course instance this year.

  • @EmilioServeraMartínez Thanks for your feedback. Methods to do economic costing are involved strategies and would be difficult to implement in an introductory course as this MOOC is meant to be. However, we will consider your perspective and consider developing a more sophisticated course where we could employ and teach these methods to learners who have...

  • @LisaSilver @EmilioServeraMartínez Thanks for pointing this out; I have corrected the link

  • @PaulCliffordHough I think the starting point is citizen engagement on issues. By writing letters to the editor, discussing this at the local level, creating the visibility this is a priority issue for the public. If we all do this together, we can slowly impact change.

  • @CarolWilson This is a good point you raise. One strategy is not to think about how much evidence is enough to provide an overwhelming case but to think about how in a small micro-step, what is sufficient information to demonstrate the impact these the impact of climate change and the associations with health

  • @LesleneWOODWARD Thank you for your feedback. We are looking to make additional global case studies which are not so UK/EU specific; our funding is from the EU and our core team from the UK and as such, many examples have been focused in this domain.

  • @EmilioServeraMartínez Thank you for this feedback; we will look into this question and improve in subsequent course runs

  • @PaulCliffordHough I follow what you are saying; you are suggesting show be at higher magnitude than 1:1?

  • @LesleneWOODWARD I have never been to Australia (full disclosure). To understand your point, you are saying sometimes control burning is OK? I understand that. What the point this is focusing on is destruction of trees for production purposes without a plan for sustainability

  • @evelynseingmurillo do you mean at a more macro level for overall trends?

  • @TimShipway Thanks for your feedback. We invest significant resources into the development of these courses in order to inform the public of our research in a free and accessible way so would appreciate your thoughts on how to structure content differently.

  • @HelenaHudecova good point. but just because it is difficult, do you think we should try regardless?

  • @CarolWilson I think this is the key point; in order to make conclusions from activities is challenging, however, what we can do is use an aggregate of studies to identifies trends and make inferences which require more study. As far as weather is concerned, a key consideration is that if there is a change to the duration of periods of extreme hot or cold, the...

  • I concur with you is sustainability is what is key; I believe this is what you are speaking to. As to what form of economics is the best way to achieve this, I shall leave this to other scholars as this is not my area of research - but I indeed take your points and believe they are very important viewpoints!

  • Or it could be the responsibilities of cities, government to ensure high quality area in general; parents perhaps make a tipping point concerning the issue?

  • Language like this needs to be carefully used to avoid making direct inferences. These elements are subject to debate and the words reflect this balance. I see your point though, but I think we need to use this type of language to describe developing evidence

  • I am all for counter positions. The problem is what is the basis for evidence. This is all we can do in science, evaluate two sides of an argument and see where the stronger evidence exists. My poetry is data - Meinert.

  • Hi @LisaSilver ; thanks for your feedback. If you can let us know which areas to modify we will be happy to take these comments on board in the next course run. This is only our second-course run and we are still making changes. I try to make comments on items but not try to impune debate; I will go back and check the issue on Pangolin meat and come back

  • EU = European Union

  • There is technology to analyse this and it is an increasing issue in cities; if parents start demanding action on this, do you think it will lead to change?

  • Many thanks for your feedback; do you mean the need to scale is not necessary in a global context?

  • The key issue is the time for such regeneration

  • Thanks for this feedback; I will discuss this point with the course team

  • Why is 1:1 exchange insufficient?

  • Thanks for this feedback; we will make an adjustment to the course to account for this

  • Thanks for this feedback; we will look to incorporate this on the next course run

  • Can you elaborate more on your issue with the trend prediction?

  • This is posted within the context as those who have limited capacity to respond to impact

  • Unless the public demands such change?

  • This is a good point. This analysis is vital. One key consideration however is the extreme impact of fossil fuel emissions

  • One basis is comparing the average temperatures to trends over the past century. Using this as a marker, one can see there is a definite increase in temperature over period!

  • The calculations are based on the associated impact of direct events. These are often subject to debate, particularly with climate, but direct events make the correlation easier.

  • Many thanks for your feedback. This was our first course run and we will be reflecting on feedback and course data for the next run but appreciate you taking the time to follow on this important journey.

  • Thanks for your feedback. This is the first time this course team has put together a course on FutureLearn (our researchers have never done a MOOC before) and there is a fine balance between academic and general content that needs to be struck. We will analyse course data and feedback to revise future course runs.

  • why do you believe so?

  • What do you think are the greatest cost challenges?

  • How has this been changed in the context of the internet?

  • Hi Angela - retake the quiz and you can test your skills

  • Perhaps there needs to be means developed to reduce the amount of time it takes to collect such data?

  • Hi Doreen; I have just checked and it is working well for me. Are you on broadband internet? Can you try downloading on your phone and see if you are experiencing the same issue?

  • Do you think if those issues could be addressed with traning, there would be a change in view?

  • Who would be the audience of this training? On what kind of courses?

  • Do you think technology can address the issue of trust?

  • I think the challenge is to prove how your skills are transferable. Then to get involved with projects (maybe as a hobby) which demonstrate your abilities.

  • If there were statistics about how effective your hospital was about certain conditions, with this inform the way you would look at care at that institution?

  • Do you have any proposed approaches for interoperability?

  • This is very true. Context is critical for analysis

  • What ways do you think could exist to make data collection easier?

  • It depends on what country you are in. I think overall, health systems globally want to encourage the best outcomes for patients

  • What are effective means in your opinion of accomplishing a better patient understanding of data sets?

  • Many thanks for this feedback - we have corrected this

  • Are there other ways you think data could be collected and sent in real time?

  • Do you think there is a technical way to address this?

  • Why do you think that clinicians are not bought into this value?

  • Consent is a general issue, especially in view of GDPR. Do you think there are ways consent could be achieved which are practical?

  • Understood - what is your reservation with this?

  • What would happen in instances where outcomes were not improved; how would this be handled in this model?

  • How could data be used to improve outcomes in this way?

  • Hi there..I’m a chartered engineer and I love all things tech

  • Nial, Giuspeppe - you are very welcome. Please let us know in other areas of the course where additional information will be helpful and as time permits I will contact Dr Murray and colleagues to provide you more in-depth academic content.

  • Hi Niall, one more thing: Here's a paper that provides a decent overview of the ecologies of invasive mosquitoes, such as Ae. albo, and their realised and potential contributions to vector-borne disease transmission:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00755.x/full

  • All outstanding points; am curious to hear more about your ideas for individual action in your communities.

  • Thanks for the feedback; we have updated the link

  • Does this make you want to do something different with plastics consumption?

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  • Is it a polar distinction as such or is it necessary to value across multiple spectrums?

  • Many thanks for your feedback; we will look to do this in subsequent versions of this course.

  • How does better data drive placing the patient at the centre of care?

  • As Alan suggests, the key opportunity is reuse of methods from other fields applied in health

  • Do you see benefits though from the commercialisation of data?

  • I like this idea. Are you going to build this product?

  • Capturing the data requires rigorous statistical analysis methods

  • The competitive interactions between these species and the roles these interactions may play in sustaining arbovirus transmission in areas that they co-inhabit are not yet well described, though it is a key area for further research.  

    On top of all this, there is the potential for climate change to play a role and interact with these other factors. E.g.,...

  • In addition, each of the main types of dengue in humans represent separate ‘spillovers’ from sylvatic dengue (i.e., circulating in animals), with transmission in humans now facilitated by A. aegypti. As such, there is a concern out there that deforestation increases the opportunities for sylvatic dengue to come into contact with humans, which could result in...

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    For management, yes there are other methods of control, including chemicals, drugs, and more sophisticated approaches (like wollbachia). 

    In general, dengue and zika are both largely (but not only) transmitted by the anthropophilic (human-loving) mosquito Aedes aegypti. As such, they tend not to be considered so much as...

  • Do you believe there is anything further which can be done?

  • Indeed - knowledge is the first step and querying this raises awareness.

  • How are you going about doing this?