Briefing
Tools
Rapid remote context analysis tool (RR-CAT) in epidemics
This SSHAP Practical Approaches brief underlines key considerations when appraising the context in which an outbreak occurs.
English
Case study
Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic
Case study addressing resistance to Ebola response measures
Case study
Learning the Lessons of Crisis: Mobilising Knowledge During a Global Health Emergency
Case study addressing issues around knowledge sharing, focusing on the example of Ebola
Case study
Rift Valley Fever: Local Knowledge, Health-Seeking Behaviours and Attitudes Towards Vaccination in Southern Uganda
Case study addressing the challenge of vaccine uptake and regulating the unknown
Case study
Building a Community Health Worker Programme During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Case study looking into the challenge of a lack of trust and referrals to biomedical health care
Case study
Participation with a Cholera-Exposed Population in Haiti: Finding their Own Solutions
Case study looking at the challenge of cholera in Haiti
Evidence review
Considerations for Home and Community-Based Care for COVID-19
Why home care is important, and an overview of existing guidance and models, with an emphasis on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).
Briefing
What social sciences researchers working in humanitarian contexts (sub-Saharan Africa) should be asking in COVID-19 and why
A summary of suggested key social science research questions and their rationale to support and inform operational field research and response programming in sub-Saharan Africa.
Briefing
COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia
Key considerations focusing on transnational migrants, informal workers, and people living in informal settlements.
Briefing
Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19
Including proposed approaches to shielding, who may be included in shielding groups, as well as the likely difficulties of these measures, and ways to mitigate them.
Briefing
COVID-19: Why Are Prisons at Particular Risk, and What Can Be Done to Mitigate This?
Particular risks associated with an outbreak in prisons in low-and middle-income countries and suggestions of some approaches that may be used to mitigate risks.
Comment
COVID-19 Forum
A collection bringing together seventeen anthropologists and historians in an effort to share ideas, analytical frameworks and concerns about the ongoing epidemic from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Briefing
Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19
Key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies and practices) and mourning.
Briefing
Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies
‘Big data’ has promised significant improvements for the global surveillance of infectious disease. This SSHAP Case Study highlights how, over the past two decades, new disease surveillance practices built on amassing and processing large data sets – analysed computationally to…
Case study
People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia
This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected…
Briefing
Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa
Practical considerations for communication strategies and messaging on physical distancing.
Briefing
Tools
Assessing key considerations for burial practices, death and mourning in epidemics
This Practical Approaches brief looks the considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic.
Briefing
Tools
Taking a psychosocial approach to epidemic response
This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for taking a psychosocial approach to working in the context of an epidemic.
Briefing
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements
Key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.
Briefing
Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19
Practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks.
Briefing
Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19
Key considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns.
Comment
Novelty and uncertainty: Social science contributions to a response to COVID-19
This comment argues that political questions around discourses of preparedness and response need to enter the debate about current and future responses to uncertain and alarming scenarios of novel emergence.
Briefing
Behavioural Data Compilation #5
A rapid compilation of data analyses for September-November 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Briefing
Cross-Border Dynamics Between South Sudan and DRC
Key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between South Sudan and DRC including borderlands and trade dynamics.
Briefing
Behavioural Data Compilation #4
A rapid compilation of data analyses for June-August 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Evidence review
The Context of Sofala and Manica in Relation to Cyclone Idai Response in Mozambique
Rapid review question: What contextual factors (e.g. community structures and dynamics) are relevant in the urban and rural areas affected by cyclone Idai (Sofala and Manica provinces)? How do social and cultural factors shape communication and community engagement strategies across…
Briefing
Behavioural Data Compilation #3
A rapid compilation of data analyses for February-May 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Briefing
Politics, Factions and Violence: Listening to Local Voices on Ebola: Local Media Update
Summarising local media and messages circulating via social media outlets in February-April 2019 in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu.
Briefing
Rwanda – DRC cross border dynamics
This Key Considerations brief concerns cross-border dynamics between Rwanda and DRC, including cross-border relations and political and economic dynamics.
Briefing
Ebola Preparedness and Readiness in Goma, DRC
Key considerations for Goma's local social and political structures.
Briefing
Behavioural Data Compilation #2
A rapid compilation of data analyses for November 2018-February 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Evidence review
Social Science in Epidemics: Rift Valley Fever Lessons Learned
Summary and background reports offering recommendations on risk communication and local frameworks among other topics.
Background report
Evidence review
Social science in epidemics: Influenza and SARS lessons learned
Summary and background reports exploring transmission, surveillance and other aspects of outbreaks.
Background report
Social science in epidemics: Influenza and SARS lessons learned
The third in a series of reviews of outbreaks seeking to identify social science ‘entry points’ for emergency interventions and preparedness activities. In French and Chinese as well as English.
Briefing
Social Science in Epidemics: Cholera Lessons Learned (Background Report)
This report is the first instalment of the ‘Social Science in Epidemics’ series, commissioned by the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Direct Assistance (OFDA). In this series, past outbreaks are reviewed in order to identify social science ‘entry points’ for…
Background report
Evidence review
Social science in epidemics: Ebola virus disease lessons learned
Summary and background reports offering recommendations on local customs, health care systems and other topics.
