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Key Considerations for COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia: Transnational Migrants, Informal Workers, and People Living in Informal Settlements
(SSHAP, 2020-05-22)This brief presents considerations for COVID-19 management among structurally vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia, including transnational migrants, people working in the informal economy, and people living in informal ... -
Social Science in Epidemics: Rift Valley Fever Lessons Learned
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-02)This report is the fourth instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Direct Assistance (OFDA). In this series, past outbreaks are reviewed in order to identify ... -
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in the Context of Conflict and Displacement - Myanmar
(SSHAP, 2020-05-11)This brief focuses on COVID-19 in Myanmar and how the interplay between conflict, displacement and inter-communal tensions may influence disease control. All health emergencies have social and political challenges, but ... -
Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19 (April 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-05-07)This brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries. It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses ... -
COVID-19: Why Are Prisons a Particular Risk, and What Can Be Done to Mitigate this?
(SSHAP, 2020-05-06)This brief provides key considerations related to COVID-19 in the context of prisons, jails and similar detention facilities (referred to collectively in this brief as “prisons”). It summarises the particular risks associated ... -
Key Considerations: Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19 (April 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-04)This brief sets out key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies and practices) and mourning in the context of the global outbreak of the COVID-19. Further participatory inquiry should ... -
Taking a Psychosocial Approach to Epidemic Response
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04)This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for taking a psychosocial approach to working in the context of an epidemic. Public health emergencies can cultivate fear, anger and grief, and deeply impact ... -
Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04)‘Big data’ has promised significant improvements for the global surveillance of infectious disease. This SSHAP Case Study highlights how, over the past two decades, new disease surveillance practices built on amassing and ... -
People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04)This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and ... -
Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa (April 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-04)This brief reports on attitudes and practices relating to physical distancing measures in Eastern and Southern Africa in the context of the current global COVID-19 outbreak. Where relevant, it also includes insight and ... -
Assessing Key Considerations for Burial Practices, Death and Mourning in Epidemics
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2020-04-02)This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic. It provides guidance on the relevant social science knowledge ... -
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements (March 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-03)This brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19. There is heightened concern about these settings because of the combination of population density ... -
Key Considerations: Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19 (March 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-03)This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details ... -
Key Considerations: Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19 (February 2020)
(SSHAP, 2020-02)This brief sets out practical considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns in the context of COVID-19. These measures include: quarantine, in which individuals who have ... -
Social Dimensions of the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response: Meeting Report
(SSHAP, 2020-01)Report of Roundtable at the Wellcome Trust, London, 3rd February 2020. Roundtable objectives: To discuss appropriate social science and humanities inputs that can improve understanding of the outbreak in global terms, ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (#5), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC, September-November 2019, SSHAP
(SSHAP, 2020-01-14)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and ... -
Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between South Sudan and DRC
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-11-11)This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and surrounding provinces. In ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (#4), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC, June-August 2019
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and ... -
Cross Border Dynamics: Burundi-DRC (Updated August 2019)
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-08-05)This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. It is the third ... -
The Context of Sofala and Manica in Relation to Cyclone Idai Response in Mozambique
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-07)Rapid review question: What contextual factors (e.g. community structures and dynamics) are relevant in the urban and rural areas affected by cyclone Idai (Sofala and Manica provinces)? How do social and cultural factors ...
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