SSHAP learning webinar
Thursday 7 November 2024, 13:00 to 14:30 UTC
This webinar will draw on the work of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) to highlight key experiential insights and lessons from SSHAP’s mobilisation of social science perspectives and evidence to contribute to improved preparedness and response to outbreaks, health emergencies and humanitarian crises.
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The webinar will feature SSHAP members, partners and stakeholders who will present learning through examples of SSHAP’s work and discuss key considerations for how to encourage and support emergency preparedness and responses that are contextually informed, sensitive to vulnerabilities and power relations, planned in consultation with affected communities and local institutions, and based on social and interdisciplinary science and evidence.
The webinar will explore a range of themes to enhance the integration and impact of social science knowledge and expertise, including:
- localisation of leadership and knowledge
- capacity building of individuals, institutions and networks
- and responding to knowledge needs and gaps.
Speakers
- Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
- Rachel James, Interagency RCCE Coordinator for East and Southern Africa, UNICEF/Collective Service
- Leben Nelson Moro, Professor of Development Studies & Director, Directorate of Planning, Innovation & Quality Assurance, University of Juba, South Sudan
- Hanna Woldemeskel, Social and Behaviour Change Manager, UNICEF Zambia
- Hayley MacGregor, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health, Institute of Development Studies, UK
- Juliet Bedford, Founder and Director, Anthrologica, UK
Chair
- Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
