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Taking urgent action on mpox during a humanitarian and security crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The spread of the current mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased both the suffering of communities and the scale of the challenge facing humanitarian actors and authorities. In such circumstances, how can an effective response to mpox, including through vaccination, be achieved?

6 Oct 2024

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Cross-border learning to enhance the contribution of social science to humanitarian action

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

8 Sep 2024

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Rapid qualitative assessments: harnessing the explanatory power of social science for people-centred emergency response

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…

Ginger A. Johnson

28 Aug 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

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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.

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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

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Overcoming barriers: Integrating South Sudanese refugee health professionals into Uganda’s workforce

21st June 2024

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.

Central and East Africa Hub

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SSHAP hosts roundtable discussion on the mpox outbreak in the DRC

11th June 2024

Contextual social, political and livelihood understandings, factors affecting care-seeking and challenges to vaccination rollout were among the on-the-ground realities relating to mpox spread that experts discussed.

Central and East Africa Hub

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Social science in Senegal’s epidemic preparedness and response: Bringing stakeholders together

7th June 2024

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.

West Africa Hub

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Navigating insecurity in North Kivu, DRC: learning from humanitarian actors, civil society and research

9th April 2024

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…

Central and East Africa Hub

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Decolonising humanitarian action: what way forward?

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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Taking urgent action on mpox during a humanitarian and security crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

A new mpox emergency declared but the politics of global inequities persist

SSHAP outputs available in multiple languages

Using Rapid Qualitative Assessments for emergency response in Zimbabwe

Overcoming barriers: Integrating South Sudanese refugee health professionals into Uganda’s workforce

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