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7 November 2024
Mobilising Social Science for Humanitarian Action: Insights and Lessons
7 November 2024
Mobilising Social Science for Humanitarian Action: Insights and Lessons
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The spread of the current mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased both the suffering of communities and the scale of the challenge facing humanitarian actors and authorities. In such circumstances, how can an effective response to mpox, including through vaccination, be achieved?
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is a critical component of cholera outbreak response. Sharing insights, strategies, and best practices for RCCE from national and regional efforts to combat cholera can enable actors to co-create solutions to common challenges and help pave the way towards stronger and more empowered communities.
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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…
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On Thursday 14 August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) due to a surge of cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and beyond. The situation underscores the need for urgent global action, stronger health systems, and ongoing investment in…
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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.
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Rapid qualitative assessments can contribute to efforts to strengthen community awareness, preparedness and response by improving practitioners’ understandings of emergency contexts and helping to tailor strategies and approaches to people’s needs, capacities, and resilience mechanisms. The Collective Service and partners have been piloting a comprehensive and open source social science…
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Overcoming barriers: Integrating South Sudanese refugee health professionals into Uganda’s workforce
Around the world many health professionals displaced as refugees face multiple barriers to securing meaningful work in host countries' health systems. Dr Jennifer Palmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology in Global Health, LSHTM, and SSHAP team member, talks about her research among South Sudanese health workers who are refugees in Uganda.
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In May 2024, the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) convened experts from Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the surrounding region, the Global North and international agencies for a roundtable discussion on the mpox outbreak which has been spreading in the DRC since early 2023.
