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Podcast: The Social Dynamics of Pandemics
The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old, from different geographic and economic groups, we are each living…
Briefing
Do You Speak COVID-19?
Millions of marginalised people lack basic information about how to keep themselves and their communities safe and well.
Briefing
Tools
Taking a psychosocial approach to epidemic response fr
This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for taking a psychosocial approach to working in the context of an epidemic.
Briefing
Tools
Assessing key considerations for burial practices, death and mourning in epidemics fres
This Practical Approaches brief looks the considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic.
Briefing
Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa fr
Practical considerations for communication strategies and messaging on physical distancing.
Case study
People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia fr
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
Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies fr
‘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…
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
Echoes of Ebola: Social and Political Warnings for the COVID-19 Response in African Settings
Recent years have seen major global investment in epidemic preparedness and response. The World Health Organization’s new guidelines for health emergency preparedness (WHO 2017), extending the ambit of the 2005 International Health Regulations, have accompanied growing commitments to centralised planning,…
Briefing
Sentinels and Whistleblowers: Lessons from Wuhan
When the media asked me how the Chinese government was handling the crisis of COVID-19, I offered them a distinction which comes from the social sciences: the Wuhan authorities acted well as sentinels but failed to act as whistleblowers. Indeed,…
Briefing
Shame and Complicity in the Reactions to the Coronavirus
The death of Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang on 7 February 2020 was a turning point in public reactions to the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The doctor had warned about the new virus, but was silenced and punished, because…
Briefing
Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19 fr
Key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies and practices) and mourning.
