Through the Lens of Social Studies, What Has Changed for Refugees to the U.S. since the COVID-19 Pandemic Began? An Inquiry Lesson for Secondary Education: a Journal for Readers, Students and Teachers of History

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, every aspect of daily life is being altered in response to the virus. The pandemic has altered secondary education. Classes online, teachers struggling to learn Zoom and make lessons meaningful and relevant to students. Students struggling to make sense of this moment, struggling with mental health issues due to the loss of routine and in many cases contact with adult role models. Unfortunately, in times of crisis such as these some of the most disenfranchized people in society are completely overlooked and forgotten, such as refugees. However, if more teachers were to leverage the social studies potential of current events such as the Coronavirus, greater empathy would be felt for marginalized people more starkly impacted by the pandemic, leading ultimately to a heightened sense of civic engagement among the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to assist teachers in guiding their students through analyzing current events, such as COVID-19's impact on refugees, toward developing civic mindedness. In addition to this, the paper will discuss some of the broader societal impacts the virus is having within the United States, as well as ways in which this event may be viewed as a historical subject in the future. The paper will begin by building the content knowledge of high school social studies teachers through addressing the following question: "What is the difference between a refugee entering the United States now versus one year ago before the COVID-19 pandemic?” Following this, the authors will present an inquiry-based learning segment designed to teach the History correlated to the COVID-19 pandemic to a classroom of secondary education students. The inquiry template follows the standard C3 format utilized by the State of Connecticut.

Mentorship of young researchers in resource-limited settings: experiences of the mentees from selected health sciences Universities in Tanzania.

INTRODUCTION: Mentorship is an essential component of research capacity building for young researchers in the health sciences. The mentorship environment in resource-limited settings is gradually improving. This article describes mentees' experiences in a mentorship program for junior academicians amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania. METHODS: This is a survey study that examined the experiences of mentees who participated in a mentorship program developed as part of the Transforming Health Education in Tanzania (THET) project. The THET project was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under a consortium of three partnering academic institutions in Tanzania and two collaborating US-based institutions. Senior faculty members of respective academic institutions were designated as mentors of junior faculty. Quarterly reports submitted by mentees for the first four years of the mentorship program from 2018 to 2022 were used as data sources. RESULTS: The mentorship program included a total of 12 mentees equally selected from each of the three health training institutions in Tanzania. The majority (7/12) of the mentees in the program were males. All mentees had a master's degree, and the majorities (8/12) were members of Schools/Faculties of Medicine. Most mentors (9/10) were from Tanzania's three partnering health training institutions. All mentors had an academic rank of senior lecturer or professor. Despite the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular weekly meetings between mentors and mentees were not affected. By the fourth year of the mentorship program, more than three-quarters of mentees had published research related to the mentorship program in a peer-reviewed journal, over half had enrolled in Ph.D. studies, and half had applied for and won competitive grant awards. Almost all mentees reported being satisfied with the mentorship program and their achievements. CONCLUSION: The mentorship program enhanced the skills and experiences of the mentees as evidenced by the quality of their research outputs and their dissemination of research findings. The mentorship program encouraged mentees to further their education and enhanced other skills such as grant writing. These results support the initiation of similar mentorship programs in other institutions to expand their capacity in biomedical, social, and clinical research, especially in resource-limited settings, such as Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Scalpel and the Brush: Explosion and Culture of the Pandemic Body

The article adopts the framework of Lotman's last cultural semiotics in order to rethink a thorny contemporary issue, that is, the diffused antagonism against science, medicine, and vaccinations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemics. The article interprets this irrational animadversion as the outcome of a dialectics that stems at least from the origin of modernity, and precisely from the opposition between a semiotic ideology of stillness, regularity, and order, underpinning the genesis of modern science, and an opposed semiotic ideology of motion, irregularity, and chaos, characterizing most of the modern aesthetics of idealism and singularity. After exploring this opposition through a crucial cultural text situated at the beginning of the tension between these two different approaches to meaning and life, the article concludes that modern sciences and medicine should continue searching for regularities in the world and in the body, for the sake of improving the human quality of life, but should also learn from the cultural semiotics of aesthetic ideologies: in times of epistemic incertitude and turmoil, old myths extolling the singularity of the body tend to resurface, jeopardizing the credibility of medicine.

Exploring Online Teaching Modes of Practice Lessons in the Epidemic Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that universities teach and how students learn. Operating system is the basic course of computer, software engineering, big data technology and other majors in colleges and universities, and occupies a very important position in the cultivation of computer categories. In the process of online teaching of the Linux application part of the operating system course, the teaching team explored the online teaching mode of the practical course and summarized the experience of the online teaching of the practical course. © 2023 IEEE.

Lesson study with sharing and jumping tasks in online mathematics classrooms for rural area students

Due to the poor instruction process during the Covid-19 Pandemic, especially in mathematics, students frequently need help with data literacy. To overcome these obstacles, they must improve their thinking skills. This study aims to enhance the quality of mathematics instruction, especially students' thinking skills, by implementing Lesson Study to develop sharing and jumping tasks. This qualitative descriptive research was conducted at one of the senior high schools and universities in Manokwari, West Papua, with their students as the research subject. The lesson study was implemented in two cycles through instruction at school and lectures at the university. The lesson study consists of three processes: plan, do, and see. The hypothetical learning trajectory was developed at the lesson design stage and then tested at the teaching-learning stage. The open class results were then analyzed during the reflection step to redesign the sharing and jumping tasks. The success of the research was determined through field notes taken from teachers and students. The frequency distribution table is used as the topic matter. The findings revealed that students' thinking skills developed, indicating they were more interested than in the previous teaching and learning process. The learning process was more exciting and enhanced conceptual comprehension. Because learning was communicable, students were more satisfied. They were more engaged and required further thought to comprehend the topic matter. Also, they produce a variety of responses, which is only feasible if they are capable of critical thought. © The Author(s) 2023.

Documentation Of Cultural And Spiritual Experiences In The Face Of The COVID-19 Crisis

Introduction and objective: Undoubtedly, employees face a variety of organizational problems and issues during the service period. Employees' decisions and actions in facing these problems and issues will be based on their knowledge and mental patterns. This study aimed to document and record the cultural and spiritual experience in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. Method: This research was an applied, inductive and exploratory-descriptive case study, which was conducted as a one-time crosssectional survey in a qualitative manner. Data was collected using documentary reviews and questionnaires. The statistical population of this study included managers, experts, and administrators of Baqiyatallah University located in Tehran, Iran. According to the qualitative approach of the research, purposeful sampling was used and data collection was continued until the required data was collected. Data analysis was performed in MaxQDA 2020 and Excel 2019 software. Results: The results showed a total of 282 open source codes. Code frequencies were as follows: 25 codes for event dimension, 54 for issue dimension, 61 for measures and decisions dimension, 71 for output-outcome dimension, 35 for suggestions dimension, 17 for scenario planning and modeling dimension, and 19 for lessons learned dimension. Conclusion: The results of this study can be used as a basis for managers to plan and implement experience documentation in cultural and spiritual areas in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results is the property of ResearchTrentz and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

COVID-19 surveillance in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda: strengths, weaknesses and key Lessons.

INTRODUCTION: As part of efforts to rapidly identify and care for individuals with COVID-19, trace and quarantine contacts, and monitor disease trends over time, most African countries implemented interventions to strengthen their existing disease surveillance systems. This research describes the strengths, weaknesses and lessons learnt from the COVID-19 surveillance strategies implemented in four African countries to inform the enhancement of surveillance systems for future epidemics on the continent. METHODS: The four countries namely the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda, were selected based on their variability in COVID-19 response and representation of Francophone and Anglophone countries. A mixed-methods observational study was conducted including desk review and key informant interviews, to document best practices, gaps, and innovations in surveillance at the national, sub-national, health facilities, and community levels, and these learnings were synthesized across the countries. RESULTS: Surveillance approaches across countries included - case investigation, contact tracing, community-based, laboratory-based sentinel, serological, telephone hotlines, and genomic sequencing surveillance. As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, the health systems moved from aggressive testing and contact tracing to detect virus and triage individual contacts into quarantine and confirmed cases, isolation and clinical care. Surveillance, including case definitions, changed from contact tracing of all contacts of confirmed cases to only symptomatic contacts and travelers. All countries reported inadequate staffing, staff capacity gaps and lack of full integration of data sources. All four countries under study improved data management and surveillance capacity by training health workers and increasing resources for laboratories, but the disease burden was under-detected. Decentralizing surveillance to enable swifter implementation of targeted public health measures at the subnational level was a challenge. There were also gaps in genomic and postmortem surveillance including community level sero-prevalence studies, as well as digital technologies to provide more timely and accurate surveillance data. CONCLUSION: All the four countries demonstrated a prompt public health surveillance response and adopted similar approaches to surveillance with some adaptations as the pandemic progresses. There is need for investments to enhance surveillance approaches and systems including decentralizing surveillance to the subnational and community levels, strengthening capabilities for genomic surveillance and use of digital technologies, among others. Investing in health worker capacity, ensuring data quality and availability and improving ability to transmit surveillance data between and across multiple levels of the health care system is also critical. Countries need to take immediate action in strengthening their surveillance systems to better prepare for the next major disease outbreak and pandemic.

Self-Directed versus Guided Learning - Searching for the Sweet Spot with Lesson Activities in Moodle

In times of a pandemic many university courses have to be taught in an online learning format to respect the requirements of social distancing. Online learning takes place between the poles of self-direction by the student and guidance by the lecturer. In this paper a first-semester course in industrial economics for engineers, which was taught in the self-directed learning format of flipped classroom, was enhanced with lesson activities in the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle as a means of guided learning with student-content interaction. The paper describes the design and the evaluation of the lesson activities. For the evaluation a student survey to gather the opinions and self-assessments of the students was conducted, and statistical data from Moodle on the performance of the students were collected. The results of the student survey show an overall positive evaluation of the lesson activities by the students who participated in the lesson activities. Furthermore, the results of the statistical data about the students' performance show a relation between participation in the lesson activities and exam success. As a caveat, however, the results also show that the majority of the students chose not to participate in the lesson activities. © 2022 SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. All rights reserved.

QUASI-PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS

During the distance education process caused by COVID-19, students do not have sufficient opportunity to do pedagogical practice, which requires strengthening their practice-oriented component of learning in other forms. This article substantiates the relevance of quasi-professional educational environment in the system of professional training of future teachers, which implies the creating conditions at the university as close as possible to the realities of the teacher's work. The conditions which allowed to improve the graduates' readiness to do their professional duties were developed and experimentally proven. The peculiarities of quasi-professional tasks based on imitation of real work situations, where student has no rules or samples for the completing, are revealed. In this way, they independently develop possible models for their behavior in similar situations, based on theoretical and methodological knowledge and skills. The effectiveness of the author's system of quasi-professional tasks aimed at the development of students' pedagogical thinking and their mastery of the experience of modeling lessons is presented and examined. They are represented by three groups: didactic, methodological and technological, each of which has a specific purpose. It allows to cover all the spheres of professional development of higher education students: motivational, cognitive-operational and reflexive © 2023,Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education. All Rights Reserved.

The perceived effects of a structured collaborative professional development program on teacher efficacy and job satisfaction

This applied dissertation was designed to study the relationship between the participation of teachers in a collaborative professional development program, Lesson Study, and their self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Lack of structure and time to effectively implement and reflect upon collaborative professional development programs create a sense of frustration and dissatisfaction in the teaching profession and at the proposed study site as rigorous standards for professional development and job performance continue to rise. Recent research showed that teachers who engage in Lesson Study as a structured professional development tool often experience a stronger sense of self-efficacy and satisfaction compared to those who do not participate.This mixed-methods study investigated the perceived impact that Lesson Study, a structured collaborative professional development program, had on the efficacy and job satisfaction of middle school and high school teachers. A total of 19 participants, 13 middle school teachers and 6 high school teachers, were recruited as volunteers in this research study. Each participant completed the Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire, The Ohio State Teacher Efficacy Scale, and an open-ended questionnaire on available professional development opportunities to establish a baseline in terms of job satisfaction and individual efficacy. At the end of the eight-week Lesson Study, each participant completed the same survey instruments as post-assessments. In addition, each participant completed a weekly journal entry reflecting their individual thoughts, feelings, questions, and impressions over the course of the eight-week Lesson Study process. They also completed a Classroom Observation Form after each lesson taught, as well as a comprehensive Group Reflection Form.The researcher first analyzed the quantitative and qualitative data separately. Descriptive coding was used to identify common themes, and then the data was triangulated to gain a better understanding of the perceived value of Lesson Study and its impact on teacher efficacy and job satisfaction. Each participant expressed an average to above-average sense of efficacy and job satisfaction prior to their participation in the research study. In combination with a limited number of participants due to COVID constraints, limited time, and a decreased participation rate during post-survey dissemination, the data and common themes identified show teachers' participation in Lesson Study did not have any significant impact on their perceived sense of efficacy and job satisfaction. This information should be utilized to better inform administrators at both the middle school and high school study sites on how to schedule designated time for content-specific professional development opportunities that promote a more positive and collaborative work environment for teachers in a post-COVID environment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

A Phenomenological Study of Faculty Members' Experiences with Online Instruction in Jazz and Commercial Music Departments: Focusing on Teaching Applied Lessons and Performance Classes

The purpose of this study was to understand the essence of teaching experiences of online applied lessons and performance classes in Jazz and Commercial Music Departments during the last few years. In-depth interviews were conducted with 9 research participants who were faculty members of Jazz and Commercial Music Departments in colleges, and phenomenological analysis was conducted. The data has been analyzed using StevickColaizzi-Keen method, and three categories and nine themes were brought to conclusion. The analysis shows that participants had gone through stages of feeling awkward, trial and error, and adaptation to the forcibly implemented online instruction, while some others had experienced positive development as an instructor. The participants also had witnessed overall limitation of the method while benefiting from its convenience. Therefore, they recognized the effectiveness of face-to-face education in applied lessons and performance classes, and reported that the technical and institutional support were necessary in order for distance learning to succeed. Based on the results, this study exposed the process of participants experiencing online instruction as well as the meaning and the essence of performance-related courseds in Applied Music departments. Lastly, suggestions for the improvements in educational methods for the future of Jazz and Commercial Music Departments. © 2023 Korean Music Education Society.

The adaptability of school principal and teachers in curriculum design and lesson plan at COVID-19 pandemic

This research departed from the conditions an Islamic elementary school faces in preparing education planning, especially curriculum design and lesson plan required to adapt to changes, especially in the current pandemic conditions. Therefore, this study aimed to know the adaptability of school principal and teachers in curriculum design and lesson plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research used a qualitative approach, while the case study method is used. The data collection process is carried out through observation, interviews, and documentation studies. Then for data validity using triangulation. The data analysis includes data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The subjects of this study were the school principal and the teachers at Al-Istiqlal Islamic elementary school Karawang. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic became a momentum for teachers and principals to adapt curriculum design and lesson plan in the 21st century. Various efforts are made in preparing curriculum design, namely making the curriculum essential, compiling learning tools, and preparing digital platforms for teaching and learning activities. The adaptability of school principal in designing curriculum is by creating a primary curriculum. Teachers' adaptability in making a lesson plan formulated and designed previously by the curriculum team, school principal, and the head of the foundation. It needs to be done because learning activities during the pandemic have changed the learning process and methods;it requires planning for a new curriculum design and lesson plan. © 2023, Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.

COVID-19 and management education: From pandemic to endemic

The disruption in management education caused by COVID-19 was significant, creating a noteworthy impetus for new research. Given that COVID-19 has transitioned from pandemic to endemic, it is an opportune time to retrospect the contributions of related research to shape the future of management education. Using the SPAR-4-SLR protocol, a systematic literature review was conducted on management education research relating to COVID-19 published between 2020 and 2022. A total of 56 relevant articles were found in and retrieved from the Web of Science database and subsequently analyzed using descriptive and content analyses. The descriptive analysis revealed a steep increase in research on the impact of COVID-19 on management education over time, with most research appearing in The International Journal of Management Education. The contributions came from various countries, with the top five being the USA, the UK, Australia, India, and China. The content analysis showed that most research adopted empirical methodologies while self-determination theory emerged as the most popular theoretical lens for study. The related research revolved around five major themes—i.e., digital teaching and learning, collaboration and partnership, embracing uncertainty and building resilience, transformation and innovation, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset—and provided implications for management education in the new normal, wherein the priority is focused on enhancing education quality and preparing future business leaders for profound challenges in the new normal, thereby necessitating the development of innovative pedagogies and leadership competencies. © 2023 The Authors

Virtual summer research camp for incoming Freshmen students in STEM

In Summer 2020, our university organized a two weeks summer research experience for 16 recently graduated first-generation and underrepresented high school students who would be joining University as incoming freshmen in various STEM majors. The summer camp was originally planned to be in-person with students residing in the university dorm to receive an early university experience and plan for their college life. But due to COVID-19, it had to be changed to a completely virtual format. This was the first time the faculty were organizing a two weeks camp in a complete virtual format. In this work, we discuss the overall virtual camp experience, challenges faced to provide effective experience to students in the online format, and evaluate the program based on student's feedback. We found that frequent breaks, activities that include students move around for some physical activity, interactive lesson plans, good communication tools, better planning and information tools are required to organize an efficient virtual program. In summer 2022, we plan to have second cohort of summer research camp and use the experiences from 2020 to improve the program. © 2022 IEEE.

Experience with Online Learning in the Subject ʻMathematics in Primary Education'

A spread of COVID-19 has significantly influenced teaching methods at universities all over the world. In 2020, face-to-face lectures at our university were banned, or were allowed only with limited number of students. Thus, in an effort to keep high academic standards, teachers had to rely on synchronous and asynchronous forms of online learning. The paper analyze our experience with online learning of the subject Mathematics in Primary Education. We focus on several problems: an influence of a ban of face-to-face lessons to students' ability to pass the final test, difference in level of knowledge of full-time and part-time students, correlation between an average study mean and results in a final test, impact of online learning on the satisfaction of students with their results, students' preference of face-to-face lessons to online learning. The paper expands the results presented on the international conference XXXV DIDMATTECH 2022, published in the collection of abstracts © 2023, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning.All Rights Reserved.

Successful Drilling of the Deepest and Hottest HPHT Carbonate Well in Offshore Malaysia, its Lesson Learnt and Way Forward

HPHT wells are typically associated with high complexity, technically challenging, long duration, high risk and high NPT as many things could go wrong especially when any of the critical nitty- gritty details are overlooked. The complexity is amplified with high risk of losses in carbonate reservoir with high level of contaminants compounded by the requirement of high mud weight above 17 ppg during monsoon season in an offshore environment. The above sums up the challenges an operator had to manage in a groundbreaking HPHT carbonate appraisal well which had successfully pushed the historical envelope of such well category in Central Luconia area, off the coast of Sarawak where one of the new records of the deepest and hottest carbonate HPHT well had been created. This well took almost 4 months to drill with production testing carried out in a safe and efficient manner whereby more than 4000m of vertical interval was covered by 6 hole sections. With the seamless support from host authority, JV partners and all contractors, the well was successfully delivered within the planned duration and cost, despite the extreme challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper will share the experience of the entire cycle from pre job engineering/planning, execution, key lesson learnt and optimization plan for future exploitations which includes an appraisal well and followed by more than a dozen of development wells. Copyright © 2023, International Petroleum Technology Conference.

Operations Sustainability During COVID-19 Pandemic

The paper aims to describe the experiences, challenges faced, and lessons learnt on how The Company Well Services division is managing the risks associate to COVID-19. The global COVID-19 pandemic spread in late 2019 and turned into one of the biggest challenges facing all industries including the oil and gas industry- in decades. The most challenging aspect of COVID-19 is its contagion rate, and its ability to spread from both non-symptomatic and symptomatic people to others who are in close contact through respiratory droplets, by direct contact with infected persons, or by contact with contaminated objects and surfaces. Today, we must consider this new reality into business continuity planning and take all necessary precautions to mitigate its spread within the organization. As the health and safety of the employees and contractors is paramount to the Company and based on the Company commitment to provide better service quality to its clients, a thorough emergency response system that includes precaution measures to help fighting against COVID-19 and its potential to negatively impact the business was created. Furthermore, The Company COVID-19 Management Standard set the minimum requirements, to manage the risks associate to the COVID-19. A Crisis Management Team was formed to oversee the implementation of COVID-19 decisions and raise awareness within the Company. All field personnel were required to comply to COVID-19 precautions during operations. With the implementation of new procedures, we were able to maintain the lowest confirmed case numbers among all the companies in our operational sector. Though it was challenging at the beginning for employees to comply, the new requirements have become the normal standard today. These new measures focus on the importance of employee health and safety when working through COVID-19 pandemic and has helped to educate people on the importance of following health and safety procedures as way of life for everyone while maintaining the Company Operational Sustainability. Copyright © 2022, International Petroleum Technology Conference.

Aging and covid-19: Lessons learned

Aging continues irrespective of event, location, and time;it is a process that does not stop or pause. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the community of older adults as profoundly as any other community. However, communities are not homogenous and older adults as a community are different in their own ways (e.g., digital immigrant baby boomers who are generally not as tech-savvy as digital native millennials (Gen Y) and zoomers (Gen Z);generally have a higher risk of morbidity and mortality, lower physical strength and mobility, and greater vulnerability to public health crises as compared to their younger counterparts). As COVID-19 becomes endemic, it is an opportune time to reflect on the lessons learned from COVID-19 for healthy and seamless aging. This article sheds light on such lessons (i.e., implications for preparedness management and opportunity leveraging) emerging out of the latest articles published during COVID-19 in the current issue of Activities, Adaptation & Aging: Dignified and Purposeful Living for Older Adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Descriptive qualitative study exploring teachers using drama-based instruction to promote engagement

The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study is to explore how teachers describe the process of creating lesson plans that use drama-based instruction (DBI) in the classroom to engage students as well as how they describe their experience using DBI in the classroom to engage students. Fourteen teachers located in the state of Florida participated in this study. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD) provided the theoretical framework for this study. Semi-structured individual interviews and two focus group discussions were the three data sources. The results revealed that DBI promotes student engagement, and all 21 participants have implemented lesson plans using DBI in their classrooms within the current or the last academic school year prior to COVID and have been teaching for a minimum of one year at the middle school level.Twelve themes were generated: 1. Before teachers create a DBI lesson plan, they reflect on their earlier teaching strategies;2. Teachers use their exposure to drama to create a DBI lesson;3. Teachers engage school administrators' to plan DBI lessons;4. Teachers use different strategies to create DBI lesson plans;5. Teachers revisit prior DBI challenges before implementing new lesson plans;6. Teachers use data from their experience using DBI;7. Teachers acknowledge that they need training to create DBI lesson plans;8. Teachers describe their experience of successful and failed attempts with DBI;9. Teachers describe students' behaviors and attitudes towards DBI;10. Teachers describe the most frequently used DBI components;11. Teachers describe the benefits they experience with DBI;12. Teachers describe the school's perception of DBI in the classroom. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Halliburton Saudi Arabia Crisis Management and Lessons Learn During COVID-19 Pandemic in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

During the first quarter of 2020, the world encountered a crucial and unprecedented health crisis. The global transmission of COVID-19 poses a significant challenging situation for Oil and Gas industry, particularly in the absence of standardized procedures and recognized methods. Like many other countries worldwide, Saudi Arabia implemented the lockdown for utmost public and private services and controlled population movement through curfew. With the execution of these tight mitigation requirements, Halliburton Saudi Arabia has been able to maintain business continuity by looking at the basic approach of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) processes through crisis management decision making and utilizing digital solutions. The purpose of this paper is to showcase how Halliburton Saudi Arabia developed sustainable adjustable process and methods that reduced exposure and the pandemic-related potential risks associated with working in offices, rig sites, workshops, and laboratories while maintaining business continuity in operation, manufacturing, and technology. Halliburton Saudi Arabia preformed risk analysis, tracking systems, exposure modification methodologies, communication strategies and management decisions that helped the company overcome challenges during the pandemic. The implementation of risk assessments, adaptable safety procedures and utilizing more than 5 digital platforms, served Halliburton employees and its work force throughout 2021 and into 2032. In this paper, we share lessons learned during the pandemic, how we overcame the unprecedented health crisis and how we continue to deal with the pandemic impact. Copyright © 2022, International Petroleum Technology Conference.