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Briefing
The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance
The aim of this briefing paper is to consider the various ways in which widely reported fear and resistance to the Ebola response can be understood, and what each way of understanding offers to those battling with the current epidemic.
Briefing
Ebola and Older People in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea
The limited evidence available on age-disaggregated fatality rates of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) consistently highlights the poor survival rates of older people compared with young adults.
Case study
‘Resistance’ in Guinea
The following key considerations have been collated from the suggestions and insights provided by over twenty-five anthropologists and social-behavioural scientists (based in West Africa and internationally) who answered an on-line call to provide guidance and operational recommendations in relation to…
Case study
Covid-19 in Gaza: Community perspectives on the pandemic
This interactive PowerPoint outlines the findings of a study into the perspectives of Palestinians living in refugee communities on a range of COVID-19 public health measures
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.
Case study
The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak response on women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This report presents an integrated multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and its response on women and girls in the DRC
Infographic
COVID-19: Impacts of the Pandemic on Vulnerable Communities in India
How have existing inequalities and vulnerabilities affected India’s response?
Evidence review
Analyses intégrées et multidisciplinaires en épidémie
Une revue des analyses intégrées menées durant les 90 premiers jours de l’épidémie d’Ebola en Equateur
Case study
Impacts de la réponse COVID-19 sur la santé communautaire en RDC: Analyses Multidisciplinaires Intégrées des Épidémies
Analyses intégrées des impacts plus larges de la réponse COVID-19 sur la santé communautaire à Kinshasa, RDC
Case study
Thematic Analysis on the Listing and Follow up of Contacts
An in-depth EPI analysis of contact tracing on the Ebola Outbreak in the Equateur Province of the DRC.
Background report
Estudo sobre comportamento no âmbito da vacinação
A vacinação representa uma das intervenções mais efetivas no âmbito da saúde publica, protegendo milhares de crianças de doenças e de deficiências. O acesso à vacinação evita a morte de milhares de Crianças com menos de 5 anos, por doenças…
Research paper
COVID-19 and pastoralism: reflections from three continents
How have COVID-19 disease control measures affected mobility and production practices, marketing opportunities, land control, labour relations, local community support and socio-political relations with the state and other settled agrarian or urban populations? This article reflects on five diverse cases…
Evidence review
In-Focus: COVID-19, Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Recovery in India guhi
How COVID-19 has intersected with and multiplied existing uncertainties faced by different vulnerable groups and communities in India
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…
Infographic
COVID-19: Going Beyond Misinformation To Build Vaccine Confidence
Boosting vaccine confidence requires far more than simply providing information.
Evidence review
RCCE Strategies to Overcome COVID-19 Fatigue in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa arfr
This brief synthesises evidence published by UNICEF on social and cultural influences for sustained COVID-19 prevention and risk reduction behaviours in the Eastern Mediterranean / Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Research paper
Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis
This study uses bibliometric analyses to assess the mental health research output related to the COVID-19 pandemic and compare it to that of the West Africa Ebola and H1N1 outbreaks.
Briefing
COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment: Behaviour, Ethics, Misinformation and Policy Strategies
Rapid review offering policy recommendations for vaccine deployment
Background report
SSHAP Africa CDC Webinar: Lockdowns and easing of restrictions: What can be done to adapt to local contexts and protect those who are vulnerable?
This SSHAP-Africa CDC Webinar brought together representatives of the Member States as well as from civil society organisations, humanitarian actors and professional organisations
Case study
Evidence for contact tracing (CT) analyses from the DRC Ebola outbreaks
This presentation provides discussion and evidence on contract tracing, looking at the experience of Integrated, Multidisciplinary Outbreak Analytics (IMOA) in the DRC Ebola outbreaks.
Case study
Psychological Resilience, Fragility and the Health Workforce: Lessons on Pandemic Preparedness from Liberia and Sierra Leone
Looking at evidence from Liberia and Sierra Leone, this paper shares learning on how to protect the mental health of health care workers in fragile settings.
Background report
Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities
An exploration of the conflict between biomedical understandings of death and funerary practices within epidemic responses, and religious minorities’ freedom of belief and practice
Research paper
COVID-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to its Response
This paper assesses potential driving factors of COVID-19-related stigma, and how this intersects with existing stigma fault lines and explores mechanisms through which COVID-19-related stigma may be counteracted, with a focus on LMICs
Infographic
COVID-19: Using Social Science in Clinical and Vaccine Trials
How can social science be used in COVID-19 clinical and vaccine trials?
Briefing
Clinical and vaccine trials for COVID-19: Key Considerations from social science frpt
This Key Considerations brief outlines how, and in what ways, social science can contribute to ongoing and future COVID-19 clinical and vaccine trials.
Infographic
COVID-19: Shielding Vulnerable Groups
Considerations around the social acceptability and implementation of shielding in low- and middle-income countries
Infographic
COVID-19: Preventing Broader Health Impacts of Pandemic Responses
Review of the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs
Case study
Enhancing Community Engagement Through Data Collection: Controlling the Cholera Epidemic in Mozambique fr
Case study focusing on post-cyclone cholera response activities
Briefing
Key Considerations: Emerging Evidence on Shielding Vulnerable Groups During COVID-19 arfres
Considerations around the social acceptability and implementation of shielding in low- and middle-income countries
Evidence review
Impacts de la Réponse COVID-19 sur la Santé Communautaire en RDC
Analyse multidisciplinaires intégrées des épidémies
Evidence review
Broader Health Impacts of Vertical Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs) fres
Review of the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs
Infographic
COVID-19: Implications of Cross-Border Traffic in Eastern and Southern Africa
Most countries have restricted entry to reduce transmission of COVID-19
