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Brighton and Madrid: a tale of two ‘pandemic’ cities
This blog post is one of a series, providing insights and reflections from the SSHAP ‘Social Science and Epidemics’ collection.

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…

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…