TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy Sailing: Prevention, Mitigation and Management of Infectious Disease on Cruise Ships and Passenger Ferries
AU - Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
AU - Anagnostopoulos, Lemonia
AU - Galea, Edwin R.
AU - Kumar, Prashant
AU - Siilin, Niko
AU - Kolb, Juergen F.
AU - Ventikos, Nikolaos P.
AU - Papataxiarhis, Vassilis
AU - Vosinakis, Georgios
AU - Klein, Jörn
AU - Bygvraa, Despoina Andrioti
AU - Hadjichristodoulou, Christos
N1 - Proceedings to be published
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - COVID-19 revealed a need to address known, expected and emerging infections on large passenger ships. HEALTHY SAILING (Project Nr: 101069764) provides an integrated, methodological approach to address this need. The three-year project is establishing an evidence-base for mechanisms fa-cilitating infection spread onboard passenger ships and effectiveness of preven-tion, mitigation and management (PMM) measures. Foundational activities in the first year of implementation include systematic reviews, epidemiological studies, surveys and focus groups to identify risk factors, infection frequency, outbreak dynamics, and barriers to compliance with PMM measures. Mathematical mod-els are being developed to predict infection spread onboard and evaluate measures’ impact. Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling explores airborne respiratory pathogen dispersion in ventilated spaces of cruise environments. An Integrated Health E-surveillance System is under development to perform real-time syndromic, laboratory and environmental health surveillance onboard, and will feed an AI Intelligence Immune System to produce health threat alerts, char-acterize threat levels and recommend/monitor health measures. A toolkit moni-toring cleaning and disinfection is being prepared to improve effectiveness of current practices onboard, while a toolkit for technology-induced behavior change is underway, to improve hand hygiene practices onboard.
AB - COVID-19 revealed a need to address known, expected and emerging infections on large passenger ships. HEALTHY SAILING (Project Nr: 101069764) provides an integrated, methodological approach to address this need. The three-year project is establishing an evidence-base for mechanisms fa-cilitating infection spread onboard passenger ships and effectiveness of preven-tion, mitigation and management (PMM) measures. Foundational activities in the first year of implementation include systematic reviews, epidemiological studies, surveys and focus groups to identify risk factors, infection frequency, outbreak dynamics, and barriers to compliance with PMM measures. Mathematical mod-els are being developed to predict infection spread onboard and evaluate measures’ impact. Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling explores airborne respiratory pathogen dispersion in ventilated spaces of cruise environments. An Integrated Health E-surveillance System is under development to perform real-time syndromic, laboratory and environmental health surveillance onboard, and will feed an AI Intelligence Immune System to produce health threat alerts, char-acterize threat levels and recommend/monitor health measures. A toolkit moni-toring cleaning and disinfection is being prepared to improve effectiveness of current practices onboard, while a toolkit for technology-induced behavior change is underway, to improve hand hygiene practices onboard.
KW - Maritime health
KW - infectious disease epidemiology
KW - cruise
KW - ferry
KW - expedition ship
KW - traveller
M3 - Article in a proceedings journal
SN - 2352-1457
JO - Transportation Research Procedia
JF - Transportation Research Procedia
T2 - Transport Research Arena TRA2024
Y2 - 15 April 2024 through 18 April 2024
ER -