Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC)
An OsloMet Centre of Research Excellence studying the societal aspects of pandemics
Kaspar Staub, the lead author on a paper we at PANSOC just co-authored, has been interviewed about our common research in Der Spiegel. You can read more here: Corona-Pandemie: Wie verheerend ist das Coronavirus im historischen Vergleich? – DER SPIEGEL
PANSOC co-leader Jessica Dimka recently recorded an episode of the Sausage of Science podcast from the Human Biology Association. The focus of the interview was her recent paper, co-authored with Lisa Sattenspiel of the University of Missouri, titled “’We didn’t get much schooling because we were fishing all the time’: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics.”
Listen to the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/humanbiologyassociation/sos-151-modeling-a-pandemic-with-dr-jessica-dimka
Read the paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23578
As an OsloMet Centre of Research Excellence, we at PANSOC are so proud to have co-authored an original research article with Swiss colleagues in “Annals of Internal Medicine”. This highly prestigious journal has an impact factor of 25.4 and is considered one of top 5 in medicine together with JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and The BMJ. You can read the paper here:
Christina Stylegar Torjussen’s talk on “Kong Sverre – The Death Ship” is now available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GRr6MnyeonSxwJn_YJKknD_lwftulIVf/view?usp=sharing
And you can catch up on previous webinars here:
On Thursday, 3 February, at 1600 CET, Chinmay Tumbe, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, will present:
India and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Mortality Estimates and Correlates
India was the worst affected country in the influenza pandemic of 1918, losing more people than the global battle death toll of World War I. This paper uses a new dataset with more complete coverage than previous studies by incorporating the princely states and using the inter-censal estimation method, estimates mortality to be closer to 20 million, higher than previous estimates. It also analyses the regional variation in influenza mortality and attributes it to undernutrition linked to an acute drought preceding the influenza attack and the accompanying price surge, and compares this explanation with others provided in the literature. Finally, the talk also compares India’s 1918 experience with that of 2021, when it faced its largest shock to all-cause mortality in a century.
Read more about Chinmay and his work here.
Fra 15 august 2022 til 30 Juni 2023 skal senterleder Mamelund lede en forskergruppe på Centre for Advanced Study – CAS. I forbindelse med dette prosjektet har vi vært så heldige å få de verdensledende toppforskerne Jeffrey Tauenberger og John Oxford til å gi gjesteforelesninger om jakten på viruset som forårsaket spanskesyken på Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi 8 november 2022. I vedlagte lenke kan dere 1) lese mer om de to foredragsholderne og deres foredrag og 2) og allerede nå melde dere på om dere vil delta på arrangementet.
The answer to this question and more is given in a new Viten & Snakkis podcast by Margarida Pereira in a conversation with Carla Hughes (both at PANSOC).
In the following link Is there a relationship between obesity and COVID-19? – Viten og snakkis (oslomet.no), you can also find four other episodes about pandemics by other PANSOC members including S-E Mamelund, Vibeke Narverud Nyborg, Carla Hughes and Lara Steinmetz.
Christina Stylegar Torjussen will present: “Kong Sverre – The Death Ship”
The influenza pandemic in 1918 killed approximately 15,000 people in Norway. Among those were recruits in the Norwegian navy stationed on an exercise and accommodation ship called “Kong Sverre” outside Horten, Norway. Of the 500 recruits on the ship, 158 were infected and 42 died, corresponding to a lethality of 27%. In my master thesis (to be presented in May 2022), I try to figure out the reasons for this high mortality on “Kong Sverre”. In my talk, I present in-progress findings on possible mechanisms for the experiences on the ship.
Christina Stylegar Torjussen is a student at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an affiliated master student at PANSOC. She is currently working on her master thesis in history.
Contact jessicad@oslomet.no for a link.
HISTORIE: Trodde du Svartedauden tok slutt på 1300-tallet? Først da maktstaten kom på 1600-tallet, fikk Europa kontroll på pesten.
SENTRALT STED: Ole Georg Moseng er forfatter av boken «Pesten kommer». Han tar oss med til kirkegården like ved Gamle Deichman hovedbibliotek, der ofrene for den siste pesten i 1654 ble stedt til hvile. (Erlend Berge)
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PANSOC has just hosted the second NHDM. The first NHDM was held in Trondheim 1-2 December 2019. The planned meetings in 2020 and 2021 were postponed due to COVID-19, but was held this rime on Zoom 17-18 January and planned and organized by PANSOC. Carla Huges, Christina Stylegar, Jessica Dimka and Svenn-Erik Mamelund were PANSOC members presenting, see program below:
PROGRAM:
Monday 17 January
12:00-12:15 Opening by Svenn-Erik Mamelund (OsloMet)
12:15-13:00 Missing Girls
13:00-13:45 Influenza
13:45-14:00 Break
14:15-15:00 Social mobility
Tuesday 18 January
09:00-09:45 Missing Girls
09:45-10:30 Influenza
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Causes of death, social class and living conditions
12:00 Closing by Svenn-Erik Mamelund (OsloMet)
