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Brighton and Madrid: a tale of two ‘pandemic’ cities

19th July 2021
This blog post is one of a series, providing insights and reflections from the SSHAP ‘Social Science and Epidemics’ collection.
UNICEF/UNI167543/Jallanzo
Briefings

Diaspora Communications and Health Seeking Behaviour in the Time of Ebola: Findings from the Sierra Leonean Community in London

The Sierra Leonean diaspora was active in responding to the Ebola outbreak that hit Sierra Leone in March 2014, both by providing financial and material support, and through direct communication with relatives, friends and colleagues back home. This paper looks…
Ebola Response Anthropology Platform
2015
UNICEF/UN018084/Faour
Evidence Reviews

MMR Mobilisation: Citizens and Science in a British Vaccine Controversy

This paper examines the controversy over measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain through the lenses of social movement theory and social studies of science. Since the early 1990s, networks of parents have raised, and mobilised around, concerns that…
IDS
2005
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