SSHAP has published a collection of short videos featuring methods, tools and thinking to aid the use of social science approaches in humanitarian and health emergency response practice. This free collection is for researchers, humanitarian practitioners or others interested in learning and incorporating social science analysis in their work.
The UK’s Humanitarian Innovation Hub has featured SSHAP in its series of case studies on academic-practitioner collaborations in humanitarian settings. The case study features learning from SSHAP and highlights key components of SSHAP’s approach, including localisation, network building and evidence on demand.
Equipping people working in community engagement and communications during humanitarian crises with the knowledge to use social science research can enable them to generate robust, rigorous and context-relevant socio-behavioural evidence to inform interventions and policymaking. Ginger Johnson highlights the important work of Collective Service partners to support governmental and non-governmental actors in Eastern and Southern Africa to conduct rapid qualitative assessments during emergencies.
The Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) supported the Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Enugu State Ministry of Health to strengthen their qualitative research capacity to improve preparedness for disease outbreak. This blog shares learning from the process.
To facilitate reflection on epidemic preparedness and response in Senegal, and the role played by the social sciences in this process, a roundtable event was held in Dakar in December 2023. Read more about the event in this short news item by Khoudia Sow and Mariam Ballo Boyon.
A new report from the Institute of Development Studies, UK, calls on world leaders to look beyond the conventional staples of the public health toolkit as they draw up a new WHO global treaty on pandemics.
The Royal Anthropological Institute and the Marsh Charitable Trust announced that Juliet Beford, a Co-Investigator (Co-I) of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) and Director of Anthrologica, is the 2022 winner of the Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World.
This briefing draws on previous outbreaks to highlight how social science can make an effective contribution across the response to the outbreak of Ebola disease caused by the Sudan virus in Uganda.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Community Readiness and Resilience Unit has issued a call for proposals for the development of a collection of case studies on COVID-19 and the impact of behavioural and social science insights. The deadline for proposal submissions is 28 October 2022.
In a fast moving and changing world, all kinds of uncertainty will emerge. We need leaders who will listen and adapt. Clear government directives from above are key, but we also need good coordination of local action.
Report from a roundtable meeting at the Wellcome Trust, London, 3rd February 2020.
Social science networks can provide crucial support to stemming nCoV by promoting the understanding of the context-response relationship as emergent and constantly evolving.
