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Clinical and Vaccine Trials for COVID-19: Key Considerations from Social Science
(SSHAP, 2020-10-08)Previous months have witnessed a growth of clinical research in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This brief sets out social science considerations that can inform clinical and vaccine trials for COVID-19. It was developed ... -
Key Considerations: Emerging Evidence on Shielding Vulnerable Groups During COVID-19
(SSHAP, 2020-09-18)Shielding is a term used to describe the protection of individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness by separating them from the general population. An initial analysis of key considerations regarding shielding was ... -
Enhancing Community Engagement Through Data Collection: Controlling the Cholera Epidemic in Mozambique
(SSHAP, 2020-08)Mozambique was hit by Cyclone Idai in March 2019, followed by Cyclone Kenneth in April 2019, causing about 2.2 million people to require humanitarian assistance in cyclone-affected areas, and an outbreak of cholera in ... -
Broader Health Impacts of Vertical Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries
(SSHAP, 2020-09)The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined capacity and efforts to address other health needs that are just as pressing as the virus itself, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Pressure on governments to ... -
Covid-19 RCCE Strategies for Cross-Border Movement in Eastern and Southern Africa
(SSHAP, 2020-07)This brief focuses on cross-border movement in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and its implications for development of risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) strategies aimed at preventing transmission of ... -
Independent Assessment of the SSHAP Response to Ebola in the DRC, 2018-2020
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-03)This report is intended as a rapid, light-touch assessment of SSHAP response activities related to the EVD outbreaks in DRC (2018-2020). To that end it covers the Équateur outbreak, North Kivu outbreak, plus preparedness ... -
Background Paper: COVID-19 Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa
(SSHAP, 2020-07-06)This background paper presents considerations on how the COVID-19 pandemic is accentuating existing vulnerabilities of populations forcibly displaced by war (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally-displaced and stateless ... -
Operational Considerations: COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa
(SSHAP, 2020-07-06)Across the Middle East and East Africa, COVID-19 is compounding vulnerabilities already experienced by populations forcibly displaced by war (refugees, asylum-seekers, internally-displaced and stateless persons). In addition ... -
Social Science Research for Vaccine Deployment in Epidemic Outbreaks
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-06-18)Recent infectious disease outbreaks show that inadequate consideration of social, cultural, political, and religious factors in humanitarian responses has consequences for community acceptance of, and the effectiveness of, ... -
Rapid Appraisal of Key Health-Seeking Behaviours in Epidemics
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-06-18)This SSHAP Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations when appraising health-seeking behaviours in the context of an epidemic outbreak. It provides guidance on the availability of relevant social science ... -
Rapid Anthropological Assessments in the Field
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-06-18)This SSHAP Practical Approaches brief provides guidance on undertaking rapid anthropological assessments in the context of an epidemic. During an epidemic, rapid anthropological assessments are used to collect data with ... -
Rapid Remote Context Analysis Tool (RR-CAT) in Epidemics
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-06-18)This SSHAP Practical Approaches brief underlines key considerations when appraising the context in which an outbreak occurs. It gives guidance on the relevant social science knowledge available and can result in a summary ... -
Real-Time Ebola Community Feedback Mechanism
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)Since the start of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in close partnership with the US Centers for Disease ... -
One Size Does Not Fit All: COVID-19 Responses Across African Settings: Meeting Report
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)There is growing recognition of the need for responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to be attuned to their national and local contexts if they are to be effective and socially just. In diverse African settings, it is increasingly ... -
Understanding Sociocultural Dynamics to Enhance control of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) Epidemics in Kenya
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)During a Rift Valley Fever (RVF) outbreak in 2006–07, Somali pastoralists in northeastern Kenya experienced high livestock mortality and abortions, especially amongst flocks of sheep, resulting in the loss of approximately ... -
Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)This SSHAP Case Study explains how an anthropologist negotiated a medically safe burial for a pregnant woman who had died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a Kissi community at the beginning of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in ... -
Learning the Lessons of Crisis: Mobilising Knowledge During a Global Health Emergency
(2020-06-16)Responding effectively to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics requires a certain amount of knowledge use and carry-over from one context to another. However, no two health emergencies are ever precisely the same. The ... -
Building a Community Health Worker Programme During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)This SSHAP Case Study explores the effective implementation of a community health worker (CHW) programme during the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic within a collapsed health system in Port Loko district, Sierra Leone. ... -
Participation with a Cholera-Exposed Population in Haiti: Finding their Own Solutions
(SSHAP, 2020-06-15)In 2016, after six years of cholera epidemics in Haiti, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) implemented a multisectoral operational research programme in four urban cholera hotspots. These hotspots were known to ... -
Rift Valley Fever: Local Knowledge, Health-Seeking Behaviours and Attitudes Towards Vaccination in Southern Uganda
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the Anthropological Exploration of Facilitators and Barriers to Vaccine Deployment and Administration During Disease Outbreaks (AViD) project supported veterinary public health ...
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