Building the COVID-19 Collaborative Emergency Network: a case study of COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province, China
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Building the COVID‑19 Collaborative Emergency Network: a case study of COVID‑19 outbreak in Hubei Province, China Jie Liu1,2 · Jingyu Hao1 · Zhenwu Shi1 · Helen X. H. Bao2 Received: 26 July 2020 / Accepted: 12 October 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The purpose of this study is to uncover and optimize the structure and performance of the collaborative network that emerged in response to COVID-19 in Hubei Province, China. This study reconstructed the Hubei Public Health Emergency Response Network as the actual collaborative network and built COVID-19 Collaborative Emergency Network as a planned task-oriented collaborative network. Based on the data sets of the inter-organizational collaboration collected from the content analysis, this study explored the core tasks of the participating actors and their relationships during the COVID-19 emergency response, and built six sub-networks to accomplish six core tasks. Network analysis was used with the Pajek software to compare the structural characteristics and performance of the planned network with the actual one and six sub-networks, and identified the central actors, key bridges, and brokers in networks and sub-networks separately. Findings suggested that COVID-19 Collaborative Emergency Network had a more tightly, central, and connective structure than Hubei Public Health Emergency Response Network, because it had more participating actors (i.e., databases and AI systems), more powerful and strong collaborative relationships with research institutions and non-profit organizations. With practical-based recommendations for inter-organizational collaboration, this study concluded that COVID-19 Collaborative Emergency Network could significantly enhance the local capacity of Hubei Province for emergency collaboration, which provided insights for building and optimizing COVID-19 collaborative networks in other provinces of China, even other countries. Keywords Collaborative Emergency Network · COVID-19 outbreak · Network analysis
1 Introduction The coronavirus (COVID-19), as an etiological agent and human-to-human transmission of the virus (SARS-COV-2), is affecting 216 countries and territories around the world. It has been labeled as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of 08:00 * Zhenwu Shi [email protected] 1
School of Civil Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Harbin, China
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Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge, UK
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am(GMT + 8) on 30th August 2020, 24,854,140 were confirmed positive for COVID-19, and 838,924 have died (World Health Organization 2020). In China, COVID-19 broke out from Wuhan in December 2019 and spread rapidly. To control and prevent further dispersal of this pandemic disease, the central government of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan. It raised its national public health emergency response to the highest state of emergency (Level One—extremely serious incident) on January 23, 2020. During the lockdown per
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