This hybrid seminar asks: Who is being prepared for what, and by whom? What can we learn about pandemic preparedness from people living with multiple health-related uncertainties in African settings? How and why is it so important to re-think the relationship between academic research and official pandemic preparedness policies and practice?
Contributors to this event will draw on long term ethnographic fieldwork carried out in parts of Sierra Leone, Senegal and Uganda between 2018-2023. Their fieldwork was co-designed and conducted in close engagement with local communities or in dialogue with African scientists and public health actors, as part of a Wellcome Trust collaborative award on Pandemic Preparedness. Many of them have contributed to a recently published special issue on Pandemic Preparedness in the Journal of Biosocial Science or have contributed to separate project-related publications.
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Read more about the Pandemic Preparedness: Local and Global Concepts and Practices in Tackling Disease Threats in Africa project.
