An overview of global epidemics and the challenges faced -- Leveraging artificial intelligence and digital tech to help citizens, societies, and economies survive and strive during pandemics -- Towards an alternative to lockdown : pandemic management leveraging digital technologies and artificial intelligence -- Exploratory study of existing approaches for analyzing epidemics -- A data science perspective of real-world COVID-19 databases -- Preparing with predictions : forecasting epidemics with artificial intelligence -- The worlwide methods of artificial intelligence for detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 -- The role of AI in digital contact tracing -- Covid-19 accelerating the dynamics of artificial intelligence disruption -- Use of artificial intelligence in pharmacovigilance for social media network -- System-level knowledge representation for artificial intelligence during pandemics.