Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Beyond the Biomedical: Ebola Response and Recovery Through a Psychosocial Lens
(SSHAP, 2020-06-16)The International Rescue Committee (IRC) based in Monrovia, Liberia, during the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak attempted to look at the emergency health response through three different lenses: medical; infection prevention and ... -
COVID-19: Considerations for Home and Community-Based Care for COVID-19 (May 2020)
(Social Science in Humanitarian Action (SSHAP), 2020-06-01)This review presents considerations for care and infection prevention and control (IPC) for COVID-19 in home and community-based care settings. Community-based care generally refers to any care that happens outside of ... -
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 Disaster Assistance. 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 ...