A webinar on 7 November 2024 will share key learnings from the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform’s mobilisation of evidence and expertise on the social dimensions of diseases outbreaks, health emergencies and humanitarian crises to improve preparedness and response.
Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is a critical component of cholera outbreak response. Sharing insights, strategies, and best practices for RCCE from national and regional efforts to combat cholera can enable actors to co-create solutions to common challenges and help pave the way towards stronger and more empowered communities.
Ginger A. Johnson, Rachel James, Sophie Everest, Nadine Beckmann
Equipping people working in community engagement and communications during humanitarian crises with the knowledge to use social science research can enable them to generate robust, rigorous and context-relevant socio-behavioural evidence to inform interventions and policymaking. Ginger Johnson highlights the important work of Collective Service partners to support governmental and non-governmental…
On Thursday 14 August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) due to a surge of cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and beyond. The situation underscores the need for urgent global action, stronger health systems, and ongoing investment in…
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) supported the Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Enugu State Ministry of Health to strengthen their qualitative research capacity to improve preparedness for disease outbreak. This blog shares learning from the process.
Whilst the SSHAP website can be viewed in Arabic, French and English, SSHAP continues to produce tailored translations of downloadable (PDF) evidence briefs and other outputs in a of languages based on partners’ needs and contexts.
Rapid qualitative assessments can contribute to efforts to strengthen community awareness, preparedness and response by improving practitioners’ understandings of emergency contexts and helping to tailor strategies and approaches to people’s needs, capacities, and resilience mechanisms. The Collective Service and partners have been piloting a comprehensive and open source social science…
Around the world many health professionals displaced as refugees face multiple barriers to securing meaningful work in host countries' health systems. Dr Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology in Global Health, LSHTM, and SSHAP team member, talks about her research among South Sudanese health workers who are refugees in Uganda.
In May 2024, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) convened experts from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the surrounding region, the Global North and international agencies for a roundtable discussion on the mpox outbreak which has been spreading in the DRC since early 2023.
To facilitate reflection on epidemic preparedness and response in Senegal, and the role played by the social sciences in this process, a roundtable event was held in Dakar in December 2023. Read more about the event in this short news item by Khoudia Sow and Mariam Ballo Boyon.
In December 2023, a workshop on the deteriorating security situation in North Kivu was held in Bukavu, South Kivu. Read more about the workshop in this short news item by Godefroid Muzalia from Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) – a Central & East Africa Regional…
How can we decolonise humanitarian action given the multiplicity of meanings, modes and methods? In this blog post, SSHAP Fellows and webinar panellists share their reflections.
Obindra B Chand, Alexandre Branco-Pereira, Michael Kunnuji, Nancy Paola Chaves Perez, Gabrielle Daoust
11 Mar 2024
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