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Tailoring your message effectively for emergency response

Find out why you should know your audience – their name, their organisation, their sector (and its jargon) – in this third in a five-part blog series. The series offers social scientists tips to better connect with humanitarian responders and planners in advocating for evidence-informed emergency response.
Ginger A. Johnson
11 Dec 2024
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Promoting the value of qualitative methods for emergency response

Suggestions on how to respond to questions about social science methodologies comprise the first in a five-part blog series. The series offers social scientists tips to better connect with humanitarian responders and planners in advocating for evidence-informed emergency response.
Ginger A. Johnson
9 Dec 2024
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A new mpox emergency declared but the politics of global inequities persist

In this blog, Hayley MacGregor considers how the surge of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and beyond underscores the need for urgent global action, stronger health systems and ongoing investment in pandemic preparedness.
Central and East Africa Hub
Hayley MacGregor
19 Aug 2024
Priority health challenges in Enugu State, Nigeria. A word cloud from a social science in action workshop.
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Improving outbreak preparedness and response in Enugu State, Nigeria

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.
West Africa Hub
Joe Taylor
30 Jul 2024
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SSHAP outputs available in multiple languages

25th July 2024
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.
Course participants pilot their data collection tools by speaking with mothers, Mazowe Health Facility, Zimbabwe. June 2024
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Using Rapid Qualitative Assessments for emergency response in Zimbabwe

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…
Ginger A. Johnson
17 Jul 2024