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Briefing
Supporting the mpox response for people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression in contexts where their rights are restricted fr
This brief provides a socio-behavioural analysis of the vulnerabilities, risks and operational key considerations for working with people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression in the mpox response.
Report
People’s Agenda for Pandemic Preparedness
Research from 25 countries across six continents by over 50 researchers: What do people need to recover from pandemics? How do people think we should prepare and respond differently for the next pandemic?
Infographic
Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Key messages from our briefing on Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Infographic
COVID-19: Building Community Resilience to Prepare for and Respond to Epidemics
Key messages from our briefing on Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
Briefing
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks arfres
Exploring how the concepts of community resilience can be applied to epidemics
Briefing
Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery arfres
How health and humanitarian practitioners can support communities to respond to, and recover from COVID-19 using a community resilience approach.
Briefing
6 ways to incorporate social context and trust in infodemic management arfr
This brief explains how social science can inform infodemiology by making it more attuned to different social, political and cultural contexts and to the relationships between people and formal institutions.
Briefing
Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination arzhfres
This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties. It proposes strategies to guide actors involved in vaccine development, communication and deployment…
Briefing
COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment: Behaviour, Ethics, Misinformation and Policy Strategies
Rapid review offering policy recommendations for vaccine deployment
Briefing
Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19 fr
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
Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements zhfrptes
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 zhfr
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 zhfr
Key considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns.
Briefing
Social Dimensions of the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response: Meeting Report
Report from a roundtable meeting at the Wellcome Trust, London, 3rd February 2020.
Evidence review
Rapid Qualitative Research Methods During Complex Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review of the Literature
The 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa highlighted both the successes and limitations of social science contributions to emergency response operations. An important limitation was the rapid and effective communication of study findings. A systematic review was carried out to…
Background report
Recurrent Failings of Medical Humanitarianism: Intractable, Ignored, or Just Exaggerated?
Humanitarian health workers operate in dangerous and uncertain contexts, in which mistakes and failures are common, often have severe consequences, and are regularly repeated, despite being documented by many reviews. This Series paper aims to discuss the failures of medical…
8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis
From the beginning of time, their have been food crises in one form or another. Ancient books such as the Bible have records of various famines devastating portions of the world. And while it’s easy to attribute these crises to…
Evidence review
El Niño: Overview of Impact, Projected Humanitarian Needs and Response as of 02 June 2016
The humanitarian impact of the 2015-2016 El Niño remains deeply alarming, now affecting over 60 million people. Central America, East Africa (particularly Ethiopia), the Pacific and Southern Africa remain the most affected regions. The El Niño phenomenon is now in decline, but projections indicate the situation will worsen…
