Helen is a Senior Project Support Officer for the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
Helen holds a MSc in International Development from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau. She has worked in international development organizations in Europe and South America.
This project will focus on how transdisciplinarity has been integrated across the existing pandemic/epidemic preparedness and response architectures in Sierra Leone.
This seminar shares fieldwork conducted in the Pandemic Preparedness Project, presenting findings related to different meanings and practices of preparedness, and contemporary dynamics related to ‘rethinking’ preparedness. We will give a spotlight to fieldwork in Uganda, where the idea...